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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 ninth joining Principle.
The ninth joyning Principle.
No man shall ever be mine enemy, that is not more his own then mine, yea more the enemy of God then mine.
No man shall ever be mine enemy, that is not more his owne then mine, yea more the enemy of God then mine.
IF a man offends me merely through weakness, this is his affliction, in this he is neither an enemy to himself nor me; he mourns for it, and I will pity him in his mourning; he is more troubled for what he hath done, then I have cause to be for what I have suffered. If he offends willingly and purposely, he is his own enemy more then mine. When Latimer was cozened in buying a commodity, his friends telling him how he was cheated of his money, he fell a mourning for him that had cheated him, He hath the worst of it, says he. If my heart rises against a man in this, and I seek to oppose him in his way, it may very well be interpreted to be out of love to him, for my heart rises against his enemy, I oppose his enemy, even himself, but an enemy to himself, more then to me; he hath hurt me a little, but himself more. I am troubled a little for the wrong I suffer, but more for the evil he hath done. If his ways be enmity to God,1 I will oppose him, because I love God, and no farther then wherein I may manifest my love to God rather then hatred of him. When Servetus condemned Zuinglius for his harshness, he answers, In other things I will be mild, but not so in Blasphemies against God. Let us keep our enmity within these bounds, and the peace of God will not be broke.