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Causes, Evils, and Cures of Heart and Church Divisions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jeremiah Burroughs here speaks to a topic which the Puritan preacher and Independent knew much of—church division. He offers thoughtful examination of the roots and effects of division in the body of Christ, and a forward-looking approach that offers considerations and directions for healing the divisions. Burroughs’ study makes suggestions for greater unity, challenging the church to focus on...

be satisfied.” If any humour of the body goeth beyond its bounds, it brings much trouble to it; the health and peace of the body consist in the keeping of every humour within its vessel, and due proportion. PRIDE hardens men’s hearts. Dan. 5:10: “His mind is hardened in his pride.” If you would have things cleave, you must have them soft; two flints will not join: the Spaniard hath a proverb, lime and stone will make a wall; if one be hard, yet if the other be yielding, there may be joining, and
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