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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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Fourthly, that such as God hath joined in so many bands of §4union, should so divide as we do, as the bands of old acquaintance, of dear friendship in former times, that fellow-sufferers, that such as are related nearly, brethren, sisters, kinsmen, kinswomen, such as live in the same family, as are of the same society, the same calling, such as have received much good one from another, yet that now they should be thus divided, and thereby the occasions of so much evil one to another, this is a sore, and a grievous evil.1 Luther in an Epistle of his to his friend Spalatinus, tells him, that if he must perish, he would not that the Emperor Charles should have a hand in it, out of respect to him, but let me rather, says he, perish by those of Rome, for I know says he, what misery followed Sigismund the Emperor after the death of John Huss. Although we should desire that we might be no occasion of evil to any, yet if it must needs be, better a thousand times that the evil fall upon wicked men, and those who are at the greatest distance from us, then upon those who are godly, and so near unto us.
Fourthly, that such as God hath joyned in so many bands of §4union, should so divide as we do, as the bands of old acquaintance, of deare friendship in former times, that fellow-sufferers, that such as are related nearly, brethren, sisters, kinsmen, kinswomen, such as live in the same family, as are of the same society, the same calling, such as have received much good one from another, yet that now they should be thus divided, and thereby the occasions of so much evill one to another, this is a sore, and a grievous evill.1 Luther in an Epistle of his to his friend Spalatinus, tells him, that if he must perish, he would not that the Emperour Charles should have a hand in it, out of respect to him, but let me rather, sayes he, perish by those of Rome, for I know sayes he, what misery followed Sigismund the Emperour after the death of John Husse. Although we should desire that we might be no occasion of evill to any, yet if it must needs be, better a thousand times that the evill fall upon wicked men, and those who are at the greatest distance from us, then upon those who are godly, and so neare unto us.