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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
CHAP. XX.
The ninth dividing Distemper,1 A spirit of jealousy. The tenth, A spirit of contention. The eleventh, Covetousness. The twelfth, Falseness.
The ninth dividing Distemper,1 A spirit of jealousie. The tenth, A spirit of contention. The eleventh, Covetousnesse. The twelfth, Falsenesse.
- 1The ninth distemper.
Envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 1 Tim. 6. 4. Strife and evil surmisings are near of kin. If contentious men can get nothing against their brethren, they will surmise there is something; if they can find nothing in their actions to judge, they will judg their hearts; if there be nothing above-board, they will think there may be something under-board;1 & from thinking there may be something, they will think it is very likely there is something; and from likely there is, they will conclude there is, Surely there is some plot working. But this is against the law of Love, for it thinketh no evil; all the good that they see in their Brethren, is blasted by their suspicion of evil. Love would teach us rather by what appears to judg the best of what appears not,