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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.
The tenth dividing Distemper,1 A spirit of contention.
- 1The tenth distemper.
AS in some there is a strong inclination, a vehement impetus to whoredom, which the Prophet calls a spirit of whoredom, so there is in others a vehement strong disposition of ⟨p. 143⟩heart to contention; these have a spirit of contention; these are like Salamanders, who love, and live in the fire. They thirst after the waters of Massah and Meribah, their temper is such, as if they drank no other drink then wht was brewed of those waters; Contentions and strifes, that are as tedious to other men as death, are their delight, they are most in their element when they are over head and ears in them. A contentious spirit will always find matter for contention. Prov. 26. 21. As coals to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man is kindle strife: they are ready to put their hands to any strife they meet with: yet Prov. 26. 17. He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that holdeth a dog by the cares. Many men have no metal in any thing but contentions; like many jades who are dull in travel, they have metal only to kick and to play jadish tricks.