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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 twelfth joining Principle.
The twelfth joyning Principle.
Peace with all men it is good, but with God and mine own conscience it is necessary.
Peace with all men it is good, but with God and mine owne conscience it is necessary.
But how will this join us one to another?
BUt how will this joyn us one to another?
Answ. Very much, both as it holds forth the goodness of peace with all men, and as it carries the heart strongly to the making and keeping peace with God and a mans own conscience. This peace with God and a mans own conscience will ⟨p. 265⟩so sweeten the heart, that it cannot but be sweet towards every one; a man who hath satisfaction enough within, can easily bear afflictions and troubles that come without. When Saul had made great breaches between God and his soul, and in his own conscience, then he grew to be of a very froward spirit towards every man, before his Apostasy he was of a very meek and quiet spirit, but this soured his spirit, and made it grow harsh, rugged, and cruel; This is the cause of the frowardness of many men and women in their families, and with their neighbours, there are secret breaches between God and their own consciences.