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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 sixth joining Principle.
The sixth joyning Principle.
What I would have others do to me, that will I endeavour to do to them.
What I would have others doe to me, that will I endeavour to doe to them.
Would not I have others bear with me? I then will bear with them. I would have others do offices of kindnesses to me, I will then do offices of kindnesses to them. I would have the carriages of others lovely, amiable to me, mine shall be so to them. I would have others live peaceably with me, I will do so with them. This rule of doing to others as I would be done to, is a law of justice; such justice as keeps the peace. Alexander Severus the Roman Emperor,1 was much taken with this: he says he learned it from the Christians, if he had to deal with his common Soldiers that did wrong, he punished them: but when he had to deal with men of worth and dignity, he thought it sufficient to reprove them with this sentence, Do as ye would be done by.
VVOuld not I have others beare with me? I then will bear with them. I would have others do offices of kindnesses to me, I will then do offices of kindnesses to them. I would have the carriages of others lovely, amiable to me, mine shall be so to them. I would have others live peaceably with me, I will do so with them. This rule of doing to others as I would be done to, is a law of justice; such justice as keeps the peace. Alexander Severus the Roman Emperour,