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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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This is the root of all evil, then of this; there is no greater plague to friendship,1 then desire of money, sayes Laelius apud Cicer. A covetous man is witty to foresee ways of gain, and he is stiff in holding fast what may be for his advantage. Yet know what a stir Demetrius and his fellows made in Ephesus when their profit was endangered, they had rather set all in a tumult then let their gain go. 1 Tim. 4. 5. Envy, strife, railings, &c. perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness.. How will some object against men, & withdraw from them, deprive themselves of the benefits of the gifts of God in them, of much good they have heretofore acknowledged they have got by them, & all merely to save their purses, & that in a poor peddling way? What a stir hath this Meum and Tuum made in the world? The sweetness of gain amongst men is like honey cast amongst Bears, they will fight, rend and tear out one another's throat for it. They that will be eich, fall into temptations and a snare, ⟨p. 144⟩and into many and hurtful lusts.