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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.
That word Haeresis is used to signify several opinions,1 several ways, Haereses Platonicae, Haereses Peripateticae. Chrysostom interprets the place of the Apostle, There must be Heresies, of such Divisions as we are treating of.
That word Haeresis is used to signifie severall opinions,1 severall wayes, Haereses Platonicae, Haereses Peripateticae. Chrysostome interprets the place of the Apostle, There must be Heresies, of such Divisions as we are treating of.
- 1Non sum in eadem cum illo haeresi. Tull. paradox. [Greek or Hebrew].Non sum in eadem cum illo haeresi. Tul. paradox. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
But why must there be Divisions, what does God aim at in them?
But why must there be Divisions, what does God ayme at in them?
Answ. First, the discovery of mens spirits, that they which are approved may be manifest, says the Apostle. By those divisions in Corinth,1 wherein the rich divided from the poor, whereby the poor were condemned, the graces of the poor in bearing this were manifested. Thus Chrysostom upon the place: The Apostle says this, That he might comfort the poor which were able with a generous mind to bear that contempt. The melting of the metal discovers the dross, for they divide the one from the other. These are melting times, and thereby discovering times. If Reformation had gone on without opposition, we had not seen what drossy spirits we had amongst us. Those who have kept upright without warping in these times are honourable before God, and his holy Angels and Saints.