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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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Take but away their disputes, and for any else, how empty ⟨p. 196⟩and dry are they? If they ever had any grace, it is under a deal of rubbish, we cannot see it, and can these men be any other but an empty vine, seeing their hearts are so divided? The graces that they seemed to have had, are quite blasted; and if there were any in truth,1 they are exceedingly weakened; Vinegar will dissolve Pearls. Pliny tells of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt, that in her wanton bravery, at a Supper she made for Marcus Antonius, she dissolved a Pearl in Vinegar, and drank it off, and prepared another, both which were valued worth near five thousand pounds: Oh the many precious Pearls worth thousands of gold and silver, that are dissolved by the Vinegar sourness of mens spirits in these sharp dissentions that are amongst us!
Take but away their disputes, and for any else, how empty ⟨p. 196⟩and dry are they? If they ever had any grace, it is under a deal of rubbish, we cannot see it, and can these men be any other but an empty vine, seeing their hearts are so divided? The graces that they seemed to have had, are quite blasted; and if there were any in truth,1 they are exceedingly weakned; Vinegar will dissolve Pearls. Pliny tells of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt, that in her wanton bravery, at a Supper she made for Marcus Antonius, she dissolv'd a Pearl in Vinegar, and drank it off, and prepared another, both which were valued worth neer five thousand pounds: Oh the many precious Pearls worth thousands of gold and silver, that are dissolv'd by the Vinegar sowreness of mens spirits in these sharp dissentions that are amongst us!
- 1Pliny Nat. hist. l. 9▪ •. 35.Pli•y Nat. hist. l. 9▪ . 35.