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

Lev. 13. 25. we read of a leprosy breaking out of a burning; seldom do mens passions burn, but there is a leprosy breaking out of that burning, and what union can there be with such? It froward people were dealt withal like the Lepers, shut up from others, we should have more peace. Some men when once their anger is got up, they will never have done, we can have no quiet with them; this fire in them is like that of hell, unquenchable. The dog-days continue with them all the year long. Seven devils can better agree in one Mary Magdalen, then seven froward people in one family. If one should set the Beacons on fire upon the landing of every Cock-boat, what continual combustions and tumults would there be in the Land? Those men who upon every trifle are all on a fire by their passions, and what in them lies set others on fire, do exceedingly disturb the peace of those places where they live, those societies of which they are. Their hot passions cause the Climate where they live to be like the torrid Zone, too hot for any to live near them. Christ is the Prince of Peace, and the Devil is the Prince of divisions. Hence that expression of the holy Ghost, Ephes. 4. 27. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath, neither give place to the devil: you are loth to give place to your brother, you will say, What, shall I yield to him? you will not yield to him, but you will yield to him that is worse, to the Devil. So you do when you yield to wrath.

Lev. 13. 25. we read of a leprosie breaking out of a burning; seldome doe mens passions burne, but there is a leprosie breaking out of that burning, and what union can there be with such? It froward people were dealt withall like the Lepers, shut up from others, we should have more peace. Some men when once their anger is got up, they will never have done, we can have no quiet with them; this fire in them is like that of hel, unquenchable. The dog-dayes continue with them all the year long. Seven devils can better agree in one Mary Magdalen, then seven froward people in one family. If one should set the Beakons on fire upon the landing of every Cock-boat, what continuall combustions and tumults would there be in the Land? Those men who upon every trifle are all on a fire by their passions, and what in them lies set others on fire, do exceedingly disturb the peace of those places where they live, those societies of which they are. Their hot passions cause the Climate where they live to be like the torrid Zone, too hot for any to live near them. Christ is the Prince of Peace, and the Devil is the Prince of divisions. Hence that expression of the holy Ghost,