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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.
Luther complains much of those who acknowledged the same doctrine, professed the same faith with himself, came to the same Sacraments, yet were worse enemies then the Papists, so that the Papists laughed at them, and said, They bite one another, and are consumed one of another.
Luther complaines much of those who acknowledged the same doctrine, professed the same faith with himself, came to the same Sacraments, yet were worse enemies then the Papists, so that the Papists laughed at them, and said, They bite one another, and are consumed one of another.
I have read of a profane speech of one Cosmus Duke of Florence, against some perfidious friends, You shall read (says he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends. Breaches of friends of such as are otherwise nearest are the greatest. Prov. 18. 19. A brother offended is harder to be won then a City, and their contertione are like the bars of a Castle.
I have read of a profane speech of one Cosmus Duke of Florence, against some perfidious friends, You shall reade (sayes he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends. Breaches of friends of such as are otherwise nearest are the greatest. Prov. 18. 19. A brother offended is harder to be won then a City, and their contertione are like the bars of a Castle.
1. We see it in nature, the nearer the union is, the more grievous