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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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7. They are the worse, because they break not so much as they §7do; wounds that take air, grow much worse then those who are kept closed; It is an ignorant, foolish speech that some please themselves with, when they are provoked, & vent abundance of choler in bitter, wicked language: When I am angry, say they, I must vent what I have within; it is better to let it out, then to keep it in. Indeed if the breaking of it out did make it to be less within then it was before, as the corruption of a sore is when it breaks out, then there were some reason in what you say; but it is otherwise. As the more you act grace, the more it increaseth, so the more you act sin, the more it increaseth. And besides, Heart-corruptions when they break forth, they dishonour God in a public way; whereas when they are kept in, the dishonour to God is but between God and your selves.
7. They are the worse, because they break not so much as they §7doe; wounds that take ayre, grow much worse then those who are kept closed; It is an ignorant, foolish speech that some please themselves with, when they are provoked, & vent abundance of choler in bitter, wicked language: When I am angry, say they, I must vent what I have within; it is better to let it out, then to keep it in. Indeed if the breaking of it out did make it to be lesse within then it was before, as the corruption of a sore is when it breaks out, then there were some reason in what you say; but it is otherwise. As the more you act grace, the more it increaseth, so the more you act sinne, the more it increaseth. And besides, Heart-corruptions when they break forth, they dishonour God in a publike way; whereas when they are kept in, the dishonour to God is but between God and your selves.
8. That our divisions are in the presence of wicked men, that §8we should discover our shame before them. Gen. 13. 7