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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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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.
4. Godliness makes men zealous in such things as others can see no reason why they should. They think they do incalescere in re frigida, and that the ground of their zeal is vanity, and turbulency of spirit.
4. Godlinesse makes men zealous in such things as others can see no reason why they should. They think they do incalescere in re frigida, and that the ground of their zeal is vanity, and turbulency of spirit.