A30587:483
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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6ly. Pride causes every man to desire to be taken notice of §6to have an eminency in some thing or other; if he cannot be eminent on one side, he will get to the other; he must be taken notice of one way or other: when he is in a good and peaceable way, God makes some use of him; yet because he is not observed, and looked upon as eminent, he will rather turn to some other way, to contend, strive, to oppose, or any thing, that he may be taken notice of to be some body, that he may not go out of the world without some noise: What, shall such a man as I? of such parts, such approved abilities, so endued by God to do some eminent service, be laid aside, and no body regard me? I must set upon some notable work, something that may draw the eye of observance upon me. I have read of a young man,1 who set Diana's Temple on fire, and being asked the reason, he said, That he might have a name, that the people might talk of him. Because he could not be famous by doing good, he would by doing evil. Proud spirits will venture the setting the Temple of God, yea Church and State on fire,2 that they may have a name, whatsoever they do or suffer; to get a name they will rather venture, then dye in obscurity, that of all things they cannot bear.
6ly. Pride causes every man to desire to be taken notice of §6to have an eminency in some thing or other; if he cannot be eminent on one side, he will get to the other; he must be taken notice of one way or other: when he is in a good and peaceable way, God makes some use of him; yet because he is not observed, and looked upon as eminent, he will rather turn to some other way, to contend, strive, to oppose, or any thing, that he may be taken notice of to be some body, that he may not goe out of the world without some noyse: What, shall such a man as I? of such parts, such approved abilities, so endued by God to doe some eminent service, be laid aside, and no body regard me? I must set upon some notable worke, something that may draw the eye of observance upon me. I have read of a young man,1 who set Diana's Temple on fire, and being asked the reason, he said, That he might have a name, that the people might talk of him. Because he could not be famous by doing good, he would by doing evill. Proud spirits wil venture the setting the Temple of God, yea Church and State on fire,