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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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The fire of our contentions raises such a smoke, that it all besmothers us, it takes away our comeliness, it makes us look black, no amiableness appears in the ways of Religion to convince men of the excellency of them. Scratched faces, rent and torn garments we account a shame to us; distracted, divided spirits, rending and tearing one another, and from one another in our divided ways, O how uncomely doth it render us,1 and that profession of Religion that we take upon us! The Turks were wont to wonder much at our English men for pinking and cutting their clothes, counting them little better then mad men, for making holes in whole cloth, which time of it self would tear too soon: the cuts, rents, slashes that are in our spirit, in our divisions at this day, are much more uncomely, and may justly render us foolish and mad in the eyes of all that do behold us.
The fire of our contentions raises such a smoak, that it all besmothers us, it takes away our comliness, it makes us look black, no amiableness appears in the wayes of Religion to convince men of the excellency of them. Scratch'd faces, rent and torn garments we account a shame to us; distracted, divided spirits, rending and tearing one another, and from one another in our divided wayes, O how uncomely doth it render us,1 and that profession of Religion that we take upon us! The Turks were wont to wonder much at our English men for pinking and cutting their clothes, counting them little better then mad men, for making holes in whole cloth, which time of it self would tear too soon: the cuts, rents, slashes that are in our spirit, in our divisions at this day, are much more uncomely, and may justly render us foolish and mad in the eyes of all that do behold us.
- 1Bidul•h in his travel to Jerusalem. p. 98.Bidul•h in his travell to Jerusalem. p. 98.