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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. We are delivered from being devoured by our enemies; shall we now devour one another? oh unworthy we of such a deliverance as this. It went ill with us in the beginning of the fight, but God looked mercifully upon us, his bowels wrought, if I come not in for their help. These ungodly men will devour my servants, howsoever they have been fair to some, because yet they have not attained their own ends; but if they prevail here, they will account all their own, and then they will begin to exercise that cruelty that yet hath not been heard of, but it shall not be, my heart cannot bear the cries of my servants under such cruelties as I foresee. Do you think this was Gods end in delivering us from being devoured of our enemies, that we may be devoured one of another? We read Ezek. 5. 3, 4. the Prophet was bid to bind up a few hairs in his skirt, which was to signify a few of the people which were preserved from that common calamity, but after these were cast into the fire, and fire came forth from these to all the house of Israel. Polanus upon the place hath this note, that grievous evils may come upon those who have been preserved from former common miseries, and those who for a while have been preserved by their contentions and divisions, may be the cause of woeful evil to others. God forbid that this Text should be fulfilled in us. Let not a fire come from us, who yet are so graciously preserved, to devour the house of Israel.
3. We are delivered from being devoured by our enemies; shal we now devour one another? oh unworthy we of such a deliverance as this. It went ill with us in the beginning of the fight, but God looked mercifully upon us, his bowels wrought, if I come not in for their help. These ungodly men wil devour my servants, howsoever they have been faire to some, because yet they have not attained their own ends; but if they prevail here, they will account all their own, and then they will begin to exercise that cruelty that yet hath not been heard of, but it shall not be, my heart cannot bear the cries of my servants under such cruelties as I foresee. Do you think this was Gods end in delivering us from being devoured of our enemies, that we may be devoured one of another? We read Ezek. 5. 3, 4. the Prophet was bid to bind up a few hairs in his skirt, which was to signifie a few of the people which were preserved from that common calamity, but after these were cast into the fire, and fire came forth from these to all the house of Israel. Polanus upon the place hath this note, that grievous evils may come upon those who have been preserved from former common miseries, and those who for a while have been preserved by their contentions and divisions, may be the cause of woful evil to others. God forbid that this Text should be fulfilled in us. Let not a fire come from us, who yet are so graciously preserved, to devour the house of Israel.