A30587:734
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.
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.
- 1Hae• est ultio, cum Reuben dicit ad Simeonem, Da mihi accomodatam securim tuam, respondet, Non accommodabo, in posterum Simeon dicit, Da accommodatam securim tuam, & respondet Reuben, Nequaquam; siquidem tu mihi non accomodasti.Hae• est ultio, cum Reuben dicit ad Simeonem, Da mihi accomodatam securim tuam, respondet, Non accommodabo, in posterum Sime•n dicit, Da accommodatam securim tuam, & respondet Reuben, Nequaquam; siquidem tu mihi non accomodasti.
Basil inveighing against requiting evil for evil,