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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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4ly. Pride hardens mens hearts. Dan. 5. 20. His mind is hardened in his pride. If you would have things cleave, you must have them soft, two flints will not join; the Spaniard hath a Proverb, Lime and stone will make a wall, if one be hand, yet if the other be yielding, there may be joining, and good may be done, not else.
4ly. Pride hardens mens hearts. Dan. 5. 20. His minde is hardned in his pride. If you would have things cleave, you must have them soft, two flints will not joyn; the Spanyard hath a Proverb, Lime and stone will make a wall, if one be hand, yet if the other be yeelding, there may be joyning, and good may be done, not else.
5ly. Pride causes men to despise the persons, actions, and sufferings of others, nothing is more unsufferable to a mans spirit then to be vilified. A proud man despises what others do, and others what he does, every man next to his person, desires the honour of his actions. If these two be contemned, his sufferings will likewise be contemned by the proud: This also goes very near to a man; one man thinks what another man suffers is nothing, no matter what becomes of him; another thinks his suffering's nothing, and no matter what becomes of him. O at what a distance now are mens hearts one from another!
5ly. Pride causes men to despise the persons, actions, and sufferings of others, nothing is more unsufferable to a mans spirit then to be vilified. A proud man despises what others do, and others what he does, every man next to his person, desires the honour of his actions. If these two be contemned, his sufferings will likewise be contemned by the proud: This also goes very neer to a man; one man thinks what another man suffers is nothing, no matter what becomes of him; another thinks his suffering's nothing, and no matter what becomes of him. O at what a distance now are mens hearts one from another!