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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.
The fifth joining Principle.
The fifth joyning Principle.
My good is more in the public then in my self.
My good is more in the publique then in my selfe.
The strength, safety, excellency of a Cabin in a Ship consists not so much in the boards of the Cabin, or the fine painting of it, as in the strength and excellency of the ship.
THe strength, safety, excellency of a Cabbin in a Ship consists not so much in the boards of the Cabbin, or the fine painting of it, as in the strength and excellency of the ship.
It is because we have such private spirits that there are such contentions among us: were we more public spirited, our contentions would vanish. When I read of what public spirits many of the Heathen were, I am ashamed to look upon many Christians. Paulus Aemilius hearing of the death of his children, spake with an un anted courage thus, That the Gods had heard his prayer, which was, that calamities should rather befall his family, then the Common-wealth. The publicness of his spirit made it very sweet and lovely: the story says of him, he entreated them gently and graciously whom he had subdued, setting forward their causes, even as they had bin his confederates, very friends and near kinsmen. Public spirited men are men of sweet and peaceable spirits.