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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, yea by these we are like to be made a prey to our enemies.§4 Here many sad stories might be told you of the prevailings of enemies against divided people. The divisions of Israel at this time made them a prey to their adversaries, which you may see clearly if you read 2 Kings 17. afterwards the divisions of the other tribes made them a prey to the Romans. When the Turks have prevailed over Christians, do not all stories tell us it hath been through the divisions of Christians? When Normans, Danes prevailed in England, it was by the advantage they had of our divisions; if we will still divide and contend, our condition may prove to be like two birds pe•king at one another, in the mean time the Kite comes and catches them both away.
Fourthly, yea by these we are like to be made a prey to our enemies.§4 Here many sad storyes might be told you of the prevailings of enemies against divided people. The divisions of Israel at this time made them a prey to their adversaries, which you may see cleerly if you read 2 Kings 17. afterwards the divisions of the other tribes made them a prey to the Romans. When the Turks have prevailed over Christians, do not all stories tell us it hath been through the divisions of Christians? When Normans, Danes prevailed in England, it was by the advantage they had of our divisions; if we will still divide and contend, our condition may prove to be like two birds pe•king at one another, in the mean time the Kite comes and catches them both away.
Fifthly, if God should free us from our enemies, yet we are like §5to devour one another, and this is a greater misery then to be devoured by the common adversary.