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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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2ly. Where true constancy is attained by the Spirit of God, and not by the stoutness of thine own, there is exercise of much grace, and growing up in grace, as faith, humility, love, meekness, patience, &c. 1 Pet. 3. 17, 18. Take heed ye fall not from your steadfastness, but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Hearts stout and wilful are dry and sapless.
2ly. Where true constancy is attained by the Spirit of God, and not by the stoutnesse of thine owne, there is exercise of much grace, and growing up in grace, as faith, humility, love, meeknesse, patience, &c. 1 Pet. 3. 17, 18. Take heed ye fall not from your stedfastnesse, but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Hearts stout and wilfull are dry and saplesse.
3ly. If the more a man hath to do with God, the more settled he is in his way; when he hath the most full converse and sweetness of communion with God, he is then the most fully settled, satisfied, established in such a truth, which he before conceived to be of God.
3ly. If the more a man hath to do with God, the more setled he is in his way; when he hath the most full converse and sweetnesse of communion with God, he is then the most fully setled, satisfied, established in such a truth, which he before conceived to be of God.
Many men are very stiff and wilful, unmoveable when they have to deal with men, they seem then to be the most confident men in the world; but God knows, and their consciences know, when they solemnly set themselves in the presence of God, and have the most real sight of God, and have to deal most immediately with him, then they have ms-giving thoughts, they have fears that things may not prove so sure as they bore others in hand they apprehended them to be: But if Gods presence and thy dealings with him confirms thee in this, thy conscience may give thee an assurance, that as thou art not fickle and wavering, so not stout and wilful.