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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The woeful miseries that our divisions bring upon us.
The wofull miseries that our divisions bring upon us.
They are themselves fruits of the curse, therefore there can come no other but cursed fruits from them, except God, contrary to their nature, be pleased to over-rule them, which he only is able to do. It was the curse of God upon the ground, Briars and thorns shall it bring forth; It is no less curse of God upon mens hearts, that they bring forth such briars and thorns, by which they tear one another.
THey are themselves fruits of the curse, therefore there can come no other but cursed fruits from them, except God, contrary to their nature, be pleased to over-rule them, which he only is able to do. It was the curse of God upon the ground, Briars and thorns shall it bring forth; It is no lesse curse of God upon mens hearts, that they bring forth such briars and thorns, by which they tear one another.
First, our divisions provoke the wrath of God against us; §1though the wrath of man accomplisheth not the righteousness of God, yet it may accomplish the wrath of God. Isaiah 9. 21. Manasseh against Ephraim, and Ephraim against Manasseh, and they together against Judah; for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. When we are thus one against another, the anger of God is not turned away from us, we may fear his hand will yet be further stretched out against ⟨p. 218⟩us; so long as our wrath one against another continue so hot, certainly Gods wrath is not appeased.