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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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9. A proud man opposes others, because they have begun such a work; and others, who are also proud, oppose him, because he hath begun it. The Senators of Rome could have been content to have admitted Christ to have been amongst the number of their gods, but only upon this, they refused because the motion began not with them. Many amongst us have no other reason why they oppose good motions, but because they were not first in them; They are loth to break the ye, to begin a good work, if they see any difficulty in it, and yet the cause of God must not go on, Christ must not be admitted, if they have not been at the beginning: Like two men carrying a long piece of timber in at a narrow passage, one man will go before, and the other man will go before, they can never carry it in, because they cannot agree who shall go foremost.
9. A proud man opposes others, because they have begun such a worke; and others, who are also proud, oppose him, because he hath begun it. The Senators of Rome could have been content to have admitted Christ to have been amongst the number of their gods, but only upon this, they refused because the motion began not with them. Many amongst us have no other reason why they oppose good motions, but because they were not first in them; They are loth to break the yee, to begin a good work, if they see any difficulty in it, and yet the cause of God must not goe on, Christ must not be admitted, if they have not been at the beginning: Like two men carrying a long piece of timber in at a narrow passage, one man will goe before, and the other man will go before, they can never carry it in, because they cannot agree who shall goe formost.
10. One proud man is conceited of what he doth, because it is his own way; and another proud man is conceited of what he doth, because it is his own way, and so men draw divers ways, and the public cause of God and his people must give way to their conceitness. Pride makes a man drunk with his own conceits, Hab. 2. 5. The proud man is as he that transgresseth by wine; and Drunkards you know are quarrelsome. Wonder not at an absurd thing in a proud man, for pride makes him drunk.