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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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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.
2ly. Those who are acted by self-love, have no common §2ends to join them, therefore they cannot close; if they be employed in public service, they quickly warp to their private ends. Take two boards never so straight, yet if one be seasoned and the other green, they will lye close a while, but ere long you will find that the unseasoned will divide from the other by warping, especially when heat comes to it. Thus many at the first, Oh who but they for the public, for the common ⟨p. 112⟩[…] ⟨p. 113⟩[…] ⟨p. 114⟩their actions, and of his too. Thus the blustering wind of pride in mens hearts causes them to jostle one against another, and so to split themselves one upon another; as where many ships lye together, a violent wind breaking their Anchor-cables, causes them to dash one upon another, and so to make shipwreck even in the Haven.
2ly. Those who are acted by self-love, have no common §2ends to joyn them, therefore they cannot close; if they be imployed in publike service, they quickly warp to their private ends. Take two boards never so straight, yet if one be seasoned and the other green, they will lye close a while, but ere long you wil find that the unseasoned wil divide from the other by warping, especially when heat coms to it. Thus many at the first, Oh who but they for the publike, for the common ⟨p. 112⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 113⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 114⟩their actions, and of his too. Thus the blustering winde of pride in mens hearts causes them to justle one against another, and so to split themselves one upon another; as where many ships lye together, a violent wind breaking their Anchor-cables, causes them to dash one upon another, and so to make shipwrack even in the Haven.