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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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The fourth dividing Distemper, Passion.1
- 1The 4. dividing distemper.
Prov. 29. 23. An angry man stirreth up strife. Passion is so opposite to Union, that Prov. 22. 24. the holy Ghost would have us make no friendship with an angry man.
PRov. 29. 23. An angry man stirreth up strife. Passion is so opposite to Union, that Prov. 22. 24. the holy Ghost would have us make no friendship with an angry man.
First, this fire of anger burns asunder the bands of union,§1 the bands of relation, as Nebuchadnezzar's fire did the bands of the three Children. A froward heart car•• not for any relations. What makes divisions between husband & wife, brother and brother, servants and Masters, and Mistresses, neighbour and neighbour, but passionate forwardness?