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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 tenth joining Principle.
The tenth joyning Principle.
I had rather suffer the greatest evil, then do the least.
I had rather suffer the greatest evill, then doe the least.
IF when others wrong you, you care not what you do to right your self: This is your folly and madness, Such a one hurt me, and I will therefore mischief my self; he hath pricked me with a pin, and I will therefore in an anger run my knife into my side. If in all we suffer we be sure to keep from righting our ⟨p. 264⟩selves by any ways of sin, there will not be much peace broke. Such an one is thine enemy, and wilt thou of one enemy make two? wilt thou also be an enemy to thy self, yea a greater enemy then he or any man living can be to thee? for all the men in the world cannot make thee sin, except thou wilt thy self.
IF when others wrong you, you care not what you do to right your self: This is your folly and madness, Such a one hurt me, and I will therefore mischief my self; he hath pricked me with a pin, and I will therefore in an anger run my knife into my side. If in all we suffer we be sure to keep from righting our