Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

Fifthly, There is this wickedness in self-love, that even §5those things that men acknowledge to be right and good in the general, yet if in the particular they shall not suit with something they would have, it will put men upon the opposing it; and what peace and union can there be amongst men, if what they will grant and commend to be good, yet when it falls cross to them, they will oppose and contend against? Thus Acts 26. 7. Unto which promise our twelve Tribes instantly serving God night and day hope to come, for which hopes sake I am accused of the Jews. The twelve Tribes, the whole body of the Jews constantly grant the promise of the Resurrection, and yet in malice to me they accuse me of this; or if not so, yet they are willing that I should sink in this cause: Just as many Ministers were wont in their Pulpits to commend highly the ways of Religion, to exhort men to grow up in godliness, to be careful of all their ways; but when some of their Parishioners did but practice in the particular, what themselves had commended to them in the general, they would hate them, and persecute them for it. God deliver us from such a spirit.

Fiftly, There is this wickednesse in self-love, that even §5those things that men acknowledge to be right and good in the generall, yet if in the particular they shall not sute with something they would have, it will put men upon the opposing it; and what peace and union can there be amongst men, if what they will grant and commend to be good, yet when it falls crosse to them, they will oppose and contend against? Thus Acts 26. 7. Ʋnto which promise our twelve Tribes instantly serving God night and day hope to come, for which hopes sake I am accused of the Jewes. The twelve Tribes, the whole body of the Jewes constantly grant the promise of the Resurrectio•, and yet in malice to me they accuse me of this; or if not so, yet they are willing that I should sink in this cause: Just as many Ministers were wont in their Pulpits to commend highly the wayes of Religion, to exhort men to grow up in godlinesse, to be carefull of all their wayes; but when some of their Parishioners did but practice in the particular, what themselves had commended to them in the generall, they would hate them, and persecute them for it. God deliver us from such a spirit.