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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 Aggravations of the sinfulness of our Divisions.
The Aggravations of the sinfulnesse of our Divisions.
First, That we that are Christians should be thus divided, it §1were not so much if we were Heathens; our divisions are against the very character of Christianity: Hereby shall ye know that ye are my Disciples, if ye love one another, says Christ. Love and Unity are Christs badge, the Arms of a Christian, whereby he shows of what House he is: But by these divisions of ours, what do we but rend the very Arms that Christ hath honoured us with, and cast them under our feet?
FIrst, That we that are Christians should be thus divided, it §1were not so much if we were Heathens; our divisions are against the very character of Christianity: Hereby shall ye know that ye are my Disciples, if ye love one another, sayes Christ. Love and Unity are Christs badge, the Armes of a Christian, whereby he shewes of what House he is: But by these divisions of ours, what doe we but rend the very Armes that Christ hath honoured us with, and cast them under our feet?
Secondly, that we who were so lately in bondage, should upon §2the beginning of our deliverance thus fall out one amongst another, one from another, one upon another; for us who are newly come out of prison, who have upon us still the very smell of our prison garments, the sores of our necks by reason of those yokes that were lately upon them are not yet healed, and yet we thus presently fight one with another, this is uncomely and very sinful.