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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
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First, A proud man thinks himself too great to be crossed, Shall I bear this? I will make you know what it is to do such things against me;1 he thinks it a great dishonour to him to bear any thing, therefore he must needs quarrel and contend, if it be but to show what a man of spirit he is, or to show that he is a man of such worth, as whatsoever others bear, yet it is not fit for him to bear it; it is but reason that such a man as he should make men who will presume to cross him, to yield to him, to stoop under him. Now when one proud man thinks it a dishonour for him to put up wrongs from another who it may be is as proud as himself, and he thinks it a dishonour for him to put up wrong, what peace can there be? some wrongs must be put up, but proud men will never agree who shall begin.
First, A proud man thinks himself too great to be crossed, Shall I beare this? I will make you know what it is to doe such things against me;1 he thinks it a great dishonour to him to beare any thing, therefore he must needs quarrel and contend, if it be but to shew what a man of spirit he is, or to shew that he is a man of such worth, as whatsoever others beare, yet it is not fit for him to bear it; it is but reason that such a man as he should make men who will presume to crosse him, to yeeld to him, to stoop under him. Now when one proud man thinks it a dishonour for him to put up wrongs from another who it may be is as proud as himself, and he thinks it a dishonor for him to put up wrong, what peace can there be? some wrongs must be put up, but proud men will never agree who shall begin.
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Secondly, because his spirit swells so big, he thinks every thing that crosseth him to be very great; his sufferings are great to him according to what great thoughts he hath of himself, according to the excellency or meanness of any person: So are his sufferings to be reckoned, sufferings of a man in eminency are judged according to his eminency and place; if a mean man suffer the same things, they are not accounted so great; now whether a man be great really, or in his own apprehension, its all one in regard of his esteem of his sufferings, he thinks himself therefore intolerable, because they are against himself.