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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 seventh joining Principle.
The seventh joyning Principle.
It is as great an honour to have my will by yielding, as by overcoming.
It is as great an honour to have my will by yeelding, as by overcomming.
Many men in their anger will say, I will be even with him. I will tell you a way how you may be above him: forgive him. By yielding, pardoning, putting up the wrong, you show you have power over your self, and this is a greater thing then to have power over another. Numb. 14. 17, 18. Now I beseech thee let the power of my Lord be great, pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, ver: 19. and by this thou mayest honourably prevail with thy Brother: hereby shalt thou heap coals of fire upon his head.
MAny men in their anger will say, I will be even with him. I will tell you a way how you may be above him: forgive him. By yeilding, pardoning, putting up the wrong, you shew you have power over your self, and this is a greater thing then to have power over another. Numb. 14. 17, 18. Now I beseech thee let the power of my Lord be great, pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, ver: 19. and by this thou maist honourably prevaile with thy Brother: hereby shalt thou heap coals of fire upon his head.