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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 twelfth is, we are divided, notwithstanding we are all §12convinced of the evil of divisions. We cry out exceedingly against them: we tell one another that of all the tokens of Gods displeasure amongst us these are the greatest. Yet scarce a man does any thing, or leaves any thing undone towards any help against divisions, or furtherance of our union. Every man cries out of the Thief, but who stops him? We all say we would have peace, oh peace is an excellent thing! But where is the man who is willing to be at any cost for it, either in putting up any wrong which he conceives is done to himself, or bearing with his brother in any thing differing from himself? The Lord may justly judge us out of our own mouths.
The twelfth is, we are divided, notwithstanding we are all §12convinced of the evill of divisions. We cry out exceedingly against them: we tell one another that of all the tokens of Gods displeasure amongst us these are the greatest. Yet scarce a man does any thing, or leaves any thing undone towards any help against divisions, or furtherance of our union. Every man cries out of the Theefe, but who stops him? We all say we would have peace, oh peace is an excellent thing! But where is the man who is willing to be at any cost for it, either in putting up any wrong which he conceives is done to himself, or bearing with his brother in any thing differing from himself? The Lord may justly judge us out of our own mouths.
13. We have complained of others who are in place of power,§13 to be of harsh cruel dispositions. We have said if they had been of gentle, loving, peaceable dispositions, tendering the glory of God dearly, & the good of their brethren as their own, what abundance of good might they have done! We have thought in those times, Oh if such men were in place, who were then our dear brethren, whom we conceived to be of holy, humble, sweet, peaceable spirits, very tender-hearted towards any they saw godliness in; had they power in their hands, what safety, peace, rest, would the Saints have! How comfortably should they go