Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

The whisperings of an evil tongue causes divisions, Rom. 1. 29. Full of envy, debate, malignity, whisperers, 2 Cor. 1•. 20. Debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, whisperings. Many of fiddling, paltry dispositions, go up and down whispering, they speak very secretly to you, you must tell no body by any means, and yet themselves tell it to a second, a third, a tenth, and any one they meet with, with whom they desire to ingratiate themselves, and to every body they speak, yet still they must tell no body▪ they do not love to be brought forth as the authors, they tell you as a friend, what they hear; and thus carrying tales up and down in a secret way, they do what in them lies to blast the names of their Brethren; jealousies, suspicions, envyings, displeasure, anger is raised, and the parties against whom all this is, wonder what is the matter, they being no ways conscious to themselves of any miscarriage towards such from whom they find such strange carriage; at last some nibbling whispering Mouse is found to be the cause of all.

The whisperings of an evill tongue causes divisions, Rom. 1. 29. Full of envy, debate, malignity, whisperars, 2 Cor. 1•. 20. Debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, whisperings. Many of fidling, paltry dispositions, goe up and down whispering, they speak very secretly to you, you must tell no body by any means, and yet themselves tell it to a second, a third, a tenth, and any one they meet with, with whom they desire to ingratiate themselves, and to every body they speak, yet still they must tell no body▪ they doe not love to be brought forth as the authors, they tell you as a friend, what they heare; and thus carrying tales up and downe in a secret way, they doe what in them lyes to blast the names of their Brethren; jealousies, suspitions, envyings, displeasure, anger is raised, and the parties against whom all this is, wonder what is the matter, they being no wayes conscious to themselves of any miscarriage towards such from whom they finde such strange carriage; at last some nibling whispering Mouse is found to be the cause of all.