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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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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⟩are no way useful to any thing else. When any thing doth but smell of Self, it begins to be loathed, let a man have never such excellent parts, do never such excellent things, yet if Self appears, the loveliness and glory of all is gone; therefore those men that act self, they had need be very cunning, to keep in and hide it; herein appears what a vile thing Self is, that though in truth it acts all, and receives the incomes of all, yet it dares not appear, but lies skulking under all the covers it can; how vile▪ is this self, for which all must be done, which thou makest thy God, yet cannot in the least appear, but is odious and abominable to every one? yea it is conscious to it self, that it is so, and therefore dares not appear; yet the acting of it is very mischievous to all humane Societies.
4. Selfe makes much stir and trouble, for it is a very odious thing; Omne affectatum odiosum: as vermine are odious, because they only take into themselves, consume thinge, and ⟨p. 119⟩are no way useful to any thing else. When any thing doth but smell of Self, it begins to be loathed, let a man have never such excellent parts, do never such excellent things, yet if Self appears, the loveliness and glory of all is gone; therefore those men that act selfe, they had need be very cunning, to keep in and hide it; herein appears what a vile thing Selfe is, that though in truth it acts all, and receives the incomes of all, yet it dares not appeare, but lies sculking under all the covers it can; how vile▪ is this selfe, for which all must be done, which thou makest thy God, yet cannot in the least appeare, but is odious and abominable to every one? yea it is conscious to it self, that it is so, and therefore dares not appear; yet the acting of it is very mischievous to all humane Societies.