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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.
Eighthly, Yet further, as they stir up sin, so they harden §8in sin. Fire hardens the clay into a brick: Thus are mens hearts hardened in evil by our divisions, men who heretofore had tender spirits, their hearts were ready to relent upon any brotherly admonition, now they are stiff, they stand out sturdily, yea behave themselves scornfully: O this fire of contention hath baked their lusts, hath hardened their hearts. Ezek. 11. God promises to give his people one heart, and this heart should be a heart of flesh: While the hearts of the Saints are united, they are tender; but when they divide, they grow hard.
Eightly, Yet further, as they stirre up sinne, so they harden §8in sinne. Fire hardens the clay into a brick: Thus are mens hearts hardened in evill by our divisions, men who heretofore had tender spirits, their hearts were redy to relent upon any brotherly admonition, now they are stiffe, they stand out sturdily, yea behave themselves scornfully: O this fire of contention hath baked their lusts, hath hardned their hearts. Ezek. 11. God promises to give his people one heart, and this heart should be a heart of flesh: While the hearts of the Saints are united, they are tender; but when they divide, they grow hard.
Hence is the reason why Brethren being fallen out, it is so hard to convince either of them of any ill carriage, they are angry, & they think they do well to be angry, and all because their hearts are hardened. Jonah was in a pettish mood, his heart was hardened with it, let God himself come now to convince him, he stands it out, he will by no means acknowledge himself faulty; no, what he does he will justify, he does well to be angry.
Hence is the reason why Brethren being falne out, it is so hard to convince either of them of any ill carriage, they are angry, & they think they do well to be angry, and all because their hearts are hardened. Jonah was in a pettish mood, his heart was hardened with it, let God himself come now to convince him, he stands it out, he will by no meanes acknowledg himselfe faulty; no, what he does he will justifie, he does well to be angry.