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Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…
Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughs.Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed for Robert Dawlman, 1653
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Proud hearts will join only in some things that concern themselves, but plain hearts will join in every thing wherein God may have glory, and their Brethren good.
Proud hearts will joyne only in some things that concern themselves, but plain hearts will joyn in every thing wherein God may have glory, and their B•ethren good.
Gouty swoln legs keep at distance one from another; bladders that are blown up with wind, spurt one from another, they will not close, but if you prick them, and so let out the wind, you may pack a thousand in a little room. We find this by experience, when God gives us most success in our Armies, then are we most divided, then every man begins to look high, and to be sharking for himself; and when the Lord discountenances our Armies, and brings us low, then we think and speak ways of Accommodation, then we bewail our divisions with some brokenness of spirit: As it is with Soldiers when they are fighting against the common adversary, then they can agree well enough; but when they come to divide the spoil, or be put into their Garrisons, then they fall out: When we lye under the danger of the same common calamity, then we can agree; but when we come to share for our selves, then our spirits swell one against another.
G•uty swoln legs keep at distance one from another; bladders that are blown up with wind, spurt one from another, they will not close, but if you prick them, and so let out the wind, you may pack a thousand in a little room. Wee finde this by experience, when God gives us most successe in our Armies, then are we most divided, then every man begins to look high, and to be sharking for himself; and when the Lord discountenances our Armies, and brings us low, then we think and speak ways of Accommodation, then we bewaile our divisions with some brokenness of spirit: As it is with Souldiers when they are fighting against the common adversary, then they can agree well enough; but when they come to divide the spoile, or be put into their Garrisons, then they fall out: When we lye under the danger of the same common calamity, then we can agree; but when we come to share for our selves, then our spirits swell one against another.