A30587:918
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. Those who hold forth the life and power of godliness, seem to challenge a more special peculiar interest in God then others which cannot be endured, 1 Joh. 5. 19. We are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.
1. Those who hold forth the life and power of godlinesse, seem to challenge a more speciall peculiar interest in God then others which cannot be endured, 1 Joh. 5. 19. We are of God, and the whole world lyes in wickednesse.
2. Their lives condemn others, which they cannot abide, as Noah is said to condemn the world, Heb. 11. 7.
2. Their lives condemne others, which they cannot abide, as Noah is said to condemne the world, Heb. 11. 7.
3. In godliness there is an excellency. They whose hearts are naught cannot look upon that hath any appearance of excellency, without a spirit of envy. If they judge men only to be conceited with it as an excellency, but for their parts they think it not to be so, then they look upon them with a spirit of indignation.
3. In godlinesse there is an excellency. They whose hearts are naught cannot look upon that hath any appearance of excellency, without a spirit of envy. If they judge men only to be conceited with it as an excellency, but for their parts they think it not to be so, then they look upon them with a spirit of indignation.