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Irenicum To the Lovers of Truth and Peace Jeremiah Burroughs Monergism Books
Copyright © 2025 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 Opinionum varietas & Opinantium unitas non sunt Ἀσύστατα
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Contents To the Reader 1. The Text opened, and suitability of it to our Times shown.
2. The Evil of Dividing Between God and Anything Else 3. Heart-Divisions: When We Separate from God, We Separate from His People 4. Heart-divisions one from another.
5. Dividing Principles 6. The Second Dividing Principle: All Religions Are to Be Tolerated
7. The second Position: Conscience is a tender thing and must not be meddled with.
8. They who are for a Congregational way do not hold absolute liberty for all Religions.
9. The third dividing Principle is, Thatnothing which is conceived to be evil, is to be suffered.
10. Rules to Know in What Things We Are to Bear with Our Brethren 11. The Fourth Dividing Principle: Division is the Best Way to Maintain Dominion 12. The Fifth Dividing Principle: That Every Man Is Bound to Profess and Practice Always What He Apprehends to Be Truth
13. The Sixth Dividing Principle: What is in itself bestmust be chosen and done, not weighing circumstances or references.
14. The Eighth Dividing Principle: If others oppose what we believe to be true, we may judge them as going against their own understanding.
15. Dividing Distempers: The Lusts of Men's Hearts 16. Self-love, the Second Dividing Distemper.
17. The Third Dividing Distemper: Envy 18. The Fifth Dividing Distemper (Rigidity); the Sixth Rashness; the Seventh Wilfulness; the Eighth Unconstancy.
19. The ninth dividing distemper, A spirit of jealousy. The tenth, A spirit of contention. The eleventh, Covetousness. The twelfth,
Falseness.
20. Dividing Practices. The first, The Practice of the Tongue. The second, Needless Disputes.
21. The Third Dividing Practice: Men Not Keeping Within the Bounds That God Has Set Them
22. The Fourth Dividing Practice: Gathering of Churches Disorderly 23. The fifth dividing practice: The aspersing and seeking to damage the reputations of those men whom the Lord uses as instruments of good.
24. The Sixth Dividing Practice: The Giving of Characterizing Names to Men, Names of Division 25. The seventh: Whatsoever personal evil there is in any onewho is in a differing way from others is cast upon all that are in that way.
26. The Ninth Dividing Practice: Because Men Cannot Join in All Things with Others, They Will Join in Nothing
27. The Evil of Divisions: They Hinder Much Good 28. The Sinfulness of Our Divisions.
29. The woeful miseries that our divisions bring upon us.
30. Cautions about our Divisions, that we may not make an illuse of them, buttry if it bepossible to get good out of them.
31. The Cure of our Divisions.
32. Joining Considerations.
33. Joining Graces 34. Joining Practices 35. Exhortation to peaceable and brotherly union, showing the excellence of it.