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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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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.
1. We see it in nature, the nearer the union is, the more grievous §1is the usurpation; tis not so great an evil to a man for his arm to be separated from his body, as his soul; for the union of the one is integral, of the other it is essential. The bone is more firmly united in all the parts of it then the flesh, and the least breach in that is far more hurtful then a greater in the flesh.
1. We see it in nature, the nerrer the union is, the more grievous §1is the usurpation; tis not so great an evill to a man for his arme to be seperated from his body, as his soule; for the union of the one is integrall, of the other it is essentiall. The bone is more firmly united in all the parts of it then the flesh, and the least breach in that is farre more hurtfull then a greater in the flesh.
2. Those who agree in many things, have hope it may be to get §2one another to them; upon this they struggle with one another the more: as for those who are at a great distance, they have no hope to prevail with them, therefore they make no onset, but seeing themselves frustrated of their hopes, there this troubles them, yea it oft stirs up a spirit of anger against them whom they cannot get up to themselves.
2. Those who agree in many things, have hope it may be to get §2one another to them; upon this they struggle with one another the more: as for those who are at a great distance, they have no hope to prevaile with them, therefore they make no onset, but seeing themselves frustrated of their hopes, there this troubles them, yea it oft stirs up a spirit of anger against them whom they cannot get up to themselves.