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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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I compare them in their unconstancy towards their brethren which hath caused so great division, to the sweetness of the, air in a fair sun-shine morning, oh how does it delight the traveller when he goeth forth • and truly such were the serene countenances of our brethren towards us, but within a while the clouds over-cast, the sky looks louring, gusts of wind arise, yea thunder-bolts of terrible words fly about our ears, and the flashes of their anger strike upon our faces.
I compare them in their unconstancy towards their brethren which hath caused so great division, to the sweetnesse of the, ayr in a fair sun-shine morning, oh how does it delight the traveller when he goeth forth • and truly such were the serene countenances of our brethren towards us, but within a while the clouds over-cast, the sky looks lowring, gusts of wind arise, yea thunder-bolts of terrible words flye about our eares, and the flashes of their anger strike upon our faces.
Tantae ne animis coelestibus irae.
Unconstancy is evil, and a cause of division: Stoutness is evil, and a cause of division: A man must not be one thing one day, and another another day; not like a weather-cock, carried up and down with every wind; neither must he be wilful and stout, not like a rusty lock that will not be stirred by any key. Now then, how shall we know when a man is neither fickle nor stout? For except some rules of discerning be given, this temptation may be before me, I must not be fickle, unsettled, and unconstant, I will therefore stiffly stand to maintain what I have professed.
Unconstancy is evill, and a cause of division: Stoutnesse is evil, and a cause of division: A man must not be one thing one day, and another another day; not like a weather-cock, carried up and down with every wind; neither must he be wilfull and stout, not like a rusty lock that will not be stirred by any key. Now then, how shall we know when a man is neither fickle nor stout? For except some rules of discerning be given, this temptation may be before me, I must not be fickle, unsetled, and unconstant, I will therefore stifly stand to maintain what I have professed.