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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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14. One proud man thinks himself the only worthy man §14to have his counsel followed, and his desires satisfied, and the other he thinks himself the man that should have his counsel followed, and his desires satisfied, and thus men struggle and oppose one another.
14. One proud man thinks himself the only worthy man §14to have his counsel followed, and his desires satisfied, and the other he thinks himself the man that should have his counsell followed, and his desires satisfied, and thus men struggle and oppose one another.
Lastly, one proud man is very discerning in the discovery §15of pride in another; and though he entertains it in his own bosom, yet he hates it in others wheresoever he sees it: This is a peculiar curs• upon this sin, one Drunkard loves another, one whoremaster another, but one proud man hates another. This is exemplified notably in Boniface the second, Bishop of Rome, he says of Aurelius Bishop of Carthage, and of the rest of those who were present at the sixth Council of Carthage, that through the instigation of the Devil, they swelled with pride against the Roman Church, he means against the supremacy of it, for it was spoken upon the submission of Eulalius Bishop of Carthage, to the Chair of Rome. Behold the proud Bishop of Rome, who would have all the preeminence himself, swells with pride against the pride of others.
Lastly, one proud man is very discerning in the discovery §15of pride in another; and though he entertains it in his owne bosome, yet he hates it in others wheresoever he sees it: This is a peculiar curs• upon this sin, one Drunkard loves another, one whoremaster another, but one proud man hates another. This is exemplified notably in Boniface the second, Bishop of Rome, he says of Aurelius Bishop of Carthage, and of the rest of those who were present at the sixth Councel of Carthage, that through the instigation of the Devil, they swelled with pride against the Roman Church, he means against the supremacy of it, for it was spoken upon the submission of Eulalius Bishop of Carthage, to the Chair of Rome. Behold the proud Bishop of Rome, who would have all the preheminence himself, swells with pride against the pride of others.