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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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9. Our divisions are long continued divisions, nothing can quiet us, as if they were irreconcilable. There is, says Nazianzen, §9a satiety in all things amongst men but in contentions; 1in meat, in drink, in singing, in all things otherwise most delightful, but men have never adone in mischieving one another. We are like cocks, who are easily set a fighting, and when they are in, they will never leave till they kill one another.
9. Our divisions are long continued divisions, nothing can quiet us, as if they were irreconcileable. There is, sayes Nazianzen, §9a satiety in all things amongst men but in contentions; 1in meat, in drinke, in singing, in all things otherwise most delightfull, but men have never adone in mischieving one another. We are like cocks, who are easily set a fighting, and when they are in, they will never leave till they kill one another.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Greg. Naz. Orat. 14. 10.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Greg. Naz. Orat. 14. 10.
10. The late Covenant that should be a means to unite us, is made a means of widening our divisions, by making false interpretations of it, by drawing the sense of it to what may serve mens turns, by charging men of perjury, because they come not up fully to what they would have them, by which abuse some seek to make it to be a very snare to their brethren.
10. The late Covenant that should be a means to unite us, is made a meanes of widening our divisions, by making false interpretations of it, by drawing the sense of it to what may serve mens turnes, by charging men of perjury, because they come not up fully to what they would have them, by which abuse some seek to make it to be a very snare to their brethren.