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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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Thirdly, they hinder the good of the body; many men contending §3with their Brethren are so full of stomach, that they have no stomach, they hinder their sleep; men lye tossing up & down a great part of the night, sometimes whole nights, musing, plodding and contriving, how they may make their party good, what advantages they may get of those they contend with. Have the thoughts about the breach sin hath made between God and thy soul,1 broke thy sleep so much as the thoughts of breaches between thee and thy neighbours and brethren? We read of Moses, Deut. 34. 7. that he was an hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Some give this to be one reason of such a wonderful preservation of his health and strength, the meekness of his spirit: God witnesses of him, Numb. 12. 3. That he was the meekest man upon the face of the earth. That good old man Mr. Dod came very near to Moses in the one and in the other.
Thirdly, they hinder the good of the body; many men contending §3with their Brethren are so full of stomach, that they have no stomach, they hinder their sleep; men lye tossing up & downe a great part of the night, sometimes whole nights, musing, plodding and contriving, how they may make their party good, what advantages they may get of those they contend with. Have the thoughts about the breach sinne hath made between God and thy soul,1 broke thy sleep so much as the thoughts of breaches between thee and thy neighbours and brethren? We reade of Moses, Deut. 34. 7. that he was an hundred and twenty yeeres old when he died, his eye was not dimme, nor his naturall force abated. Some give this to be one reason of such a wonderfull preservation of his health and strength, the meeknesse of his spirit: God witnesses of him,