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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.
Let not any put of this Scripture, saying, This is in the Old Testament, but we find no such thing in the Gospel; for we find the same thing, almost the same words, used in a Prophecy of the times of the Gospel, Zech. 13. 3. In the latter end of the 12. Chapter, it is prophesied that those who ⟨p. 20⟩pierced Christ, should look upon him, and mourn, &c. having a spirit of grace and supplication poured upon them. Chap. 13. 1. There shall now be opened a fountain for sin and for uncleanness. Vers. 3. It shall come to pass, that he that takes upon him to prophesy that his father and his mother that begat him, shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: And his father and his mother that begat him, shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
Let not any put of this Scripture, saying, This is in the Old Testament, but we finde no such thing in the Gospel; for we find the same thing, almost the same words, used in a Prophesie of the times of the Gospel, Zech. 13. 3. In the latter end of the 12. Chapter, it is prophecyed that those who ⟨p. 20⟩pierced Christ, should looke upon him, and mourne, &c. having a spirit of grace and supplication powred upon them. Chap. 13. 1. There shall now be opened a fountaine for sinne and for uncleannesse. Vers. 3. It shall come to passe, that he that takes upon him to prophesie that his father and his mother that begate him, shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lyes in the name of the Lord: And his father and his mother that begate him, shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
You must understand this by that in Deut. The meaning is not, that his father or mother should presently run a knife into him, but that though they begat him, yet they should be the means to bring him to condign punishment, even the taking away his life; those who were the instruments of his life, should now be the instruments of his death.