A30587:947
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.
I have read of two Rivers in the East, Sava and Danube, that run along in one channel threescore miles together, without any noise, and yet they keep themselves distinct, the colour of the waters remain distinct, all along: why should we not think it possible for us to go along close together in love and peace, though in some things our judgements and practices be apparently different one from another? I will give you who are Scholars a sentence to write upon your Study doors, as needful an one in these times as any; it is this: Opinionum varietas, & opinantium unitas non sunt [Greek or Hebrew].
I have read of two Rivers in the East, Sava and Danuby, that run along in one channell threescore miles together, without any noyse, and yet they keep themselves distinct, the colour of the waters remain distinct, all along: why should we not think it possible for us to go along close together in love and peace, though in some things our judgements and practices be apparently different one from another? I will give you who are Scholers a sentence to write upon your Study doores, as needfull an one in these times as any; it is this: Opinionum varietas, & opinantium unitas non sunt 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
Variety of opinions, and unity of those that hold them, may stand together.
There hath been much ado to get us to agree: we laboured to get our opinions into one, but they will not come together. It may be in our endeavours for agreement we have begun at the wrong end. Let us try what we can do at the other end: it may be we shall have better success there. Let us labour to join our hearts to engage our affections one to another: if we cannot be of one mind that we may agree, let us agree that we may be of one mind.