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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.
When we hear fearful thundering, and see terrible storms and tempests, many people say, that ill spirits are abroad; surely these blustering storms of contention are raised and continued from evil spirits: But the truth is, all the Devils in hell could do us no great hurt in dividing us from God or from one another, were it not for the corruption of our own hearts: Wherefore as the Lord says to Israel, Perditio tua ex te, thy destruction is from thy self: So may we now say of England, Divisio tua ex te, thy division is from thy self.
When we hear fearful thundring, and see terrible storms and tempests, many people say, that ill spirits are abroad; surely these blustering storms of contention are raised and continued from evill spirits: But the truth is, all the Devils in hel could do us no great hurt in dividing us from God or from one another, were it not for the corruption of our own hearts: Wherefore as the Lord says to Israel, Perditio tua ex te, thy destruction is from thy self: So may we now say of England, Divisio tua ex te, thy division is from thy selfe.
The causes of our divisions from our selves, may be referred to three heads.
1. Dividing principles; sometimes our divisions come down from our heads to our hearts.