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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, the things that the Saints are conversant about, are §4great things, things of a high nature, about their last end, their eternal estates; hence every one is very chary, and careful, and strongly set to maintain what he apprehends; those who understand not the infinite consequence of those things, who have not had the fear of them fall upon their hearts, they wonder at the stiffness of mens spirits that they can be brought to yield no more in such things that they conceive they might yield in, and where there are different apprehensions of those things that concern mens eternal estates, even amongst godly men, they must needs stand out one against another, till God causes one of them to see things otherwise then now he doth.
Fourthly, the things that the Saints are conversant about, are §4great things, things of a high nature, about their last end, their eternall estates; hence every one is very charie, and carefull, and strongly set to maintain what he apprehends; those who understand not the infinite consequence of those things, who have not had the feare of them fall upon their hearts, they wonder at the stifnesse of mens spirits that they can be brought to yeeld no more in such things that they conceive they might yeeld in, and where there are different apprehensions of those things that concern mens eternall estates, even amongst godly men, they must needs stand out one against another, till God causes one of them to see things otherwise then now he doth.
Fifthly, the things of Religion are hidden mysteries, they are §5the secrets of God, they are hard to be understood, God reveals them in a differing way, they are not ordinarily so clearly revealed, but that the apprehensions of them are like to be different.
Fiftly, the things of Religion are hidden mysteries, they are §5