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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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Nothing more firmly unites and holds together the Common-wealth then fidelity,1 says Cicero. Truth is a girdle. Stand therefore, having your loins girt with truth, Ephes. 6. 14. Truth binds, and Falseness loosen•. The Apostle, Eph. 4. 25. exhorts to put away lying, and every man to speak trueth to his neighbour, upon this ground, because we are members one of another. The Romans esteemed so much of truth for uniting men into societies, that they built a Temple to it, as to a Goddess; in which Temple all Leagues, Covenants, Truces, and important bargains were made, which were so religiously observed, that whosoever broke them, was held for a cursed, damned creature, unfit for humane society. Rom. 1. 29. Full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity. A man were better be true to false principles, then be false to true ones. Those who are false, are also mischievous: they care not what mischief they do to any, so they may but uphold themselves, and repair that credit which formerly they had, but now through their base falseness is cracked; and if they have wronged any by their falseness, they seek to keep such down, if not to ruin them, fearing lest their falseness should hereafter be revenged: and if they cannot get them down by force, they will seek to do it by adding yet more falseness, by flattering them whom their hearts hate, and would gladly ruin. That Scripture,