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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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3ly. Self makes every man judg of things according to wht is in himself. I have read of Blackmores, when they paint an Angel, they paint him black like themselves; and when they paint the Devil, they paint him white, as much different from themselves as they can: Thus men acted by Self, the foulest, blackest opinion, yet if suitable to their judgments, they will set out like Angels with the fairest glosses that may be; and that wch is truth, if disagreeing from them, they will paint it out in the foulest manner that can be; they labour so to besmear it, that if it be possible it shall look like a Devil. If a selfish man be conscious of not having that wch is commendable, he will not believe that others hath it: As Nero being abominably filthy, would not believe there was any chaste man in the world: whatsoever evil he doth, he thinks all men if they had the like opportunity, would do the same; if they have plots to fetch about their own ends, they think every man is plotting too.
3ly. Self makes every man judg of things according to wht is in himself. I have read of Blackmores, when they paint an Angel, they paint him black like themselves; and when they paint the Devil, they paint him white, as much different from themselves as they can: Thus men acted by Selfe, the foulest, blackest opinon, yet if sutable to their judgments, they wil set out like Angels with the fairest glosses that may be; and that wch is truth, if disagreeing from them, they will paint it out in the foulest manner that can be; they labor so to besmear it, that if it be possible it shall looke like a Devil. If a selfish man be conscious of not having that wch is commendable, he will not believe that others hath it: As Nero being abominably filthy, would not believe there was any chast man in the world: whatsoever evil he doth, he thinks all men if they had the like opportunity, would do the same; if they have plots to fetch about their own ends, they think every man is plotting too.
4. Self makes much stir and trouble, for it is a very odious thing; Omne affectatum odiosum: as vermin are odious, because they only take into themselves, consume thing, and ⟨p. 119⟩