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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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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.
Seventhly, they hinder our prayers. If two or three agree together §7touching any thing they shall ask, it shall be done for them by my Father, says Christ, Mat. 18. 18. 1 Tim. 2. 8. I will that men pray, lifting up their hands without wrath. When Daniel was in a strait, he goes to his companions, and desires them to lift up prayers to God for him, Dan. 2. 17. There was a a sweet agreement between them. Hence their stock and trade in prayer went in common, but divisions do exceedingly hinder prayer, either one with another, or one for another. 1 Pet. 3. 7. the Apostle giving rules for a peaceable loving life between man & wife, the woman must be meek, and the man live with his wife as a man of knowledge; and they must walk together as the heirs of life. Why so? That your prayers may not be hindered. Private contentions in families are great hindrances of family-prayers: So our public divisions and contentions are the great hindrances of the prayers of Christians in a more public way. How were they wont to pour forth their hearts in prayer together? then their hearts closed, but now it is otherwise. ⟨p. 194⟩Men do not walk now together as the heirs of life, therefore their prayers are hindered. God accepts not of our gift, if we offer it when our hearts are at a distance from our brethren. When breaches continue, and we are not reconciled, you know Christ requires us to leave our gift at the Altar till reconciliation be made. It is the Spirit of God in the Saints that is the spirit of prayer: now Gods Spirit is a Dove-like, meek, quiet, and peaceable spirit.
Seventhly, they hinder our prayers. If two or three agree together §7touching any thing they shall aske, it shall be done for them by my Father, sayes Christ, Mat. 18. 18.