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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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This is a very shameful distemper, some men will upon occasion confess they fear other men, and others that they love not other men, or that they contemn others, but no man will acknowledge that he envies others, there is too much shame in this, to be owned by any. The impiety and wickedness is not less, it is a monstrous wickedness for a man to complain of God, that he made the world no better; and yet such wickedness there is in some mens hearts, but what is it then to complain of, and quarrel with God, that he hath made the World, or any part of it so well? This the envious man doth.
This is a very shamefull distemper, some men will upon occasion confesse they fear other men, and others that they love not other men, or that they contemn others, but no man will acknowledge that he envies others, there is too much shame in this, to be owned by any. The impiety and wickednesse is not lesse, it is a monstrous wickednesse for a man to complaine of God, that he made the world no better; and yet such wickednesse there is in some mens hearts, but what is it then to complaine of, and quarrel with God, that he hath made the World, or any part of it so well? This the envious man doth.
An envious man cannot endure to see others better then himself, or to have more respect then himself. It is reported of Licinius an intimate familiar with Constantine the Great, who also married his sister, but fell off to be a desperate enemy against Christians, alleging this to be the reason, because in their Assemblies they prayed for Constantine, and not for him. Envious men, whether they deserve respect or no, yet if others have it, and not themselves, they rage, and are mad.
An envious man cannot endure to see others better then himselfe, or to have more respect then himself. It is reported of Licinius an intimate familiar with Constantine the Great, who also married his sister, but fell off to be a desperate enemy against Christians, alledging this to be the reason, because in their Assemblies they prayed for Constantine, and not for him. Envious men, whether they deserve respect or no, yet if others have it, and not themselves, they rage, and are mad.