A30587:733
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.
Practising revenge is the way to continue divisions to the end of the world; such offend me, therefore I will offend them; and therefore they offend me again, me again, and I them, and so it may run in infinitum; they deny me a kindness, therefore I will deny them, and therefore they will deny me; so these unkindnesses run on endlessly; divisions will have a line of succession, where will it, where can it stop, if this be the way of men?
Practising revenge is the way to continue divisions to the end of the world; such offend me, therefore I will offend them; and therefore they offend me againe, mee againe, and I them, and so it may run in infinitum; they deny mee a kindnesse, therefore I will deny them, and therefore they will deny mee; so these unkindnesses run on endlesly; divisions will have a line of succession, where will it, where can it stop, if this be the way of men?
Paulus Fagius in his Notes upon Leviticus, cap. 19. v. 18. says,1 If Reuben should say to Simeon, Lend me thy Axe, and he should answer, I will not; the next day Simeon hath need of an Axe, and he comes to Reuben, and says, I pray lend me your Axe, and Reuben answers, No, you would not lend me yours yesterday; the Jews accounted this to be Revenge: There is much more malignity in our revengeful practices one upon another then this.
Paulus Fagius in his Notes upon Leviticus, cap. 19. v. 18. sayes,1 If Reuben should say to Simeon, Lend me thy Axe, and he should answer, I will not; the next day Simeon hath need of an Axe, and he comes to Reuben, and sayes, I pray lend me your Axe, and Reuben answers, No, you would not lend me yours yesterday; the Jewes accounted this to be Revenge: There is much more malignity in our revengefull practices one upon another then this.