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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, our misery is and will be aggravated by the executioners of it: our familiars, our brethren, those who not long since were dear to us, will be made use of to make us miserable. How great a misery will this be? When the men of Judah came up to Samson, to deliver him to the Philistines, Judg. 15. 11, 12. says Samson to them, But swear to me that ye will not fall upon ⟨p. 225⟩me your selves. He thought it a very grievous thing for the men of Judah to fall upon him. He did not so much regard what the Philistines could do against him. Certainly there is nothing in the world more sad then for one brother to make another miserable. The History of that War between Sulla and Marius tells of one having slain a man not knowing him, but after he looked and found it was his brother, in the anguish of his heart, because he had slain his brother, he took his sword and ran it into his own bowels. It is a great evil to be an instrument of evil to our brethren, and to suffer evil from our brethren.
Fourthly, our misery is and will be aggravated by the executioners of it: our familiars, our brethren, those who not long since were dear to us, will be made use of to make us miserable. How great a misery will this be? When the men of Judah came up to Samson, to deliver him to the Philistines, Judg. 15. 11, 12. sayes Samson to them, But sweare to me that ye will not fall upon ⟨p. 225⟩me your selves. He thought it a very grievous thing for the men of Judah to fall upon him. He did not so much regard what the Philistines could do against him. Certainly there is nothing in the world more sad then for one brother to make another miserable. The History of that Warre between Sylla and Marius tells of one having slaine a man not knowing him, but after he looked and found it was his brother, in the anguish of his heart, because he had slaine his brother, he took his sword and ran it into his own bowels. It is a great evill to be an instrument of evill to our brethren, and to suffer evill from our brethren.