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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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CHAP. XXII.
The third Dividing Practice,1 Men no keeping within the bounds that God hath set them.
- 1The 3. dividing practise.
First, when men will be meddling with that which concerns them not, that is out of their sphere. 1 Thes. 4. 11. Study to be quiet, and do your own business. Prov. 20. 31. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be wedling. Choler in the gall is useful to the body, but if it overflow, the body grows into distemper presently; we may be all useful in our places, if we keep to them, contenting our selves with the improvements of our talents in them; thus both our selves and others may have quiet. When Manna was gathered ⟨p. 153⟩and kept in that proportion God would have it, it was very good; but when men must have more, and keep it longer then God would have them, then it breeds worms. Thus it will be in all that we have, or do; let us keep our proportion God sets us, and all will be well; but if we think to provide better for our selves by going beyond our measure, worms are presently bred in all.