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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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Many men of moderate spirits, if let alone, yet meeting with men who tell them stories, and speak ill of those men that heretofore they had a good opinion of, yet now before they have examined what the truth is,1 there is a venom got into their spirits before they are aware, their hearts begin to be hot, and to rise against those men they hear such things of, their thoughts are altered concerning them, their spirits alienated, breaches are made, and men who are innocent wonder from whence all comes. O take heed of these men of evil tongues, especially at your tables, for while you are warm with mirth and good cheer, you are in greater danger to take down the discourse of such as are at table with you, some poison may get into your spirits, and you not think of it. Saint Augustine could not endure such guests at his table; he caused therefore these two verses to be writ over his Table, it were well they were over some of yours.
Many men of moderate spirits, if let alone, yet meeting with men who tell them stories, and speak ill of those men that heretofore they had a good opinion of, yet now before they have examined what the truth is,1 there is a venome got into their spirits before they are aware, their hearts begin to be hot, and to rise against those men they hear such things of, their thoughts are altered concerning them, their spirits alienated, breaches are made, and men who are innocent wonder from whence all comes. O take heed of these men of evill tongues, especially at your tables, for while you are warme with mirth and good cheere, you are in greater danger to take downe the discourse of such as are at table with you, some poyson may get into your spirits, and you not think of it. Saint Augustine could not endure such guests at his table; he caused therefore these two verses to be writ over his Table, it were well they were over some of yours.
- 1Tertul. contra Marcion, lib. 3. cap. 8.