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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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Sixthly, the Saints are bound to watch over one another, each §6is his brothers keeper, they ought to advise, admonish, reprove one another, not to suffer sin to be upon their brethren; now this (through our corruption) is very displeasing, we do not love to be meddled with, to be crossed in what we have a mind to; but other men can better preserve their own quiet, by letting their brethren alone; I will not trouble them, lest I be troubled my self. Hence it is that they many times live more quietly one with another, then godly men do; yet this is a ⟨p. 240⟩great evil, a shame to those who are godly, that it should be so upon any terms.
Sixtly, the Saints are bound to watch over one another, each §6is his brothers keeper, they ought to advise, admonish, reprove one another, not to suffer sinne to be upon their brethren; now this (through our corruption) is very displeasing, we doe not love to be medled with, to be crossed in what we have a mind to; but other men can better preserve their own quiet, by letting their brethren alone; I will not trouble them, lest I be troubled my selfe. Hence it is that they many times live more quietly one with another, then godly men do; yet this is a ⟨p. 240⟩great evill, a shame to those who are godly, that it should be so upon any termes.
Seventhly, ungodly men are dead in sins, the Devil hath them sure enough, he doth not seek to stir their corruptions so much as he doth the corruptions of the godly; he shall not get so much advantage by the one as by the other; therefore he labours to keep the corruptions of the godly acting as much as he can, that he may disquiet their own spirits, and the spirits of those with whom they converse.