A30587:735
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.
Basil inveighing against requiting evil for evil,1 in his tenth Sermon, speaks thus to a revengeful heart; Do not make your Adversary your Master, do not imitate him whom you hate; be not you his looking-glass, to present his form and fashion in your self.
Basil invelghing against requiting evill for evill,1 in his tenth Sermon, speakes thus to a revengefull heart; Doe not make your Adversary your Master, doe not imitate him whom you hate; be not you his looking-glasse, to present his forme and fashion in your selfe.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Basil. Hom. 10. De ira.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Basil. Hom. 10. De ira.
Revenge God challengeth to himself as his, presume not to encroach upon Gods propriety, to get up into Gods seat, and do his work, thou hast enough to do of thine own. And it is very observable, how God stands upon his challenge of revenge as his own; as that which he by no means will suffer others to meddle with: in those Scriptures where this is mentioned, the challenge is doubled, yea, sometimes treble•, as Psal. 94. 1. O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth, O God to whom vengeance belongeth: So Nahum. 1. 2. The Lord revengeth, ⟨p. 188⟩the Lord revengeth, the Lord will take vengeance on his Adversaries,