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Is it God that setteth rulers and people against each other. Doth he divide his own Kingdom, against it self, when he tells us that the Devil will not do so by his. Is it God that sets the parts of the same body in a hatred and War against each other? As if it were the interest of the nobler and the Servile parts to weaken or destroy each other? And it were an addition to the health and welfare of the one, which is gotten by Conquest from the other? Is it God that maketh people despise or dishonour their lawful Governors, or any Rulers to hate the best Subjects, and desire more to be feared than to be loved, and rather to have power to do hurt, than actually to do good? Is it God that sets Corporations, and Churches and Neighbours and Families, in a state of Malice, Vexation, Strife, and a kind of War against each other? Doth the Spirit of God indite the malicious Pamphlets, which exercise the utmost of Wit and Hatred, to destroy▪ Love, and to call the Nation into the Devils Camp, by mutual hatred to live as ⟨p. 14⟩Enemies, and Fight against the Lord and the ways of Peace. And if any endeavour a reconciling healing of our wounds, it's turned into scorn, and his healing motions are represented as the grand causes of division; and to beg for peace is heinous Schism, and next Rebellion against the Church, and a crime sufficient to forfeit that mans Peace and Reputation: And he that tells men of the only possible terms of Concord, is made the chiefest cause of discord. To serve and worship God no otherwise than Peter and Paul did, and than God prescribeth is enough to render us unworthy to live on English Earth? And if England may not suffer such, why should any other nation suffer them? There are men that keep holy days for St. Peter, and St. Paul, and dedicate Churches to them, and their bellies are maintained at Dives rates, and their Wealth and Revenues and Grandeur held up, by that which is dedicated to these Churches, (and to alienate any of this superfluity from their flesh were worse Sacrilege than to cast out and silence a thousand faithful Preachers;) And yet if St. Paul were a Preacher now in France, Spain, Italy or England, and would worship God but as he did when he was on Earth, and would not swear, say and do as much more as the Bishops Canons bid him, I think we should again hear those words, Acts 22. 22.

Is it God that setteth rulers and people against each other. Doth he divide his own Kingdom, against it self, when he tells us that the Devil will not do so by his. Is it God that sets the parts of the same body in a hatred and War against each other? As if it were the interest of the nobler and the Servile parts to weaken or destroy each other? And it were an addition to the health and welfare of the one, which is gotten by Conquest from the other? Is it God that maketh people despise or dishonour their lawful Governours, or any Rulers to hate the best Subjects, and desire more to be feared than to be loved, and rather to have power to do hurt, than actually to do good? Is it God that sets Corporations, and Churches and Neighbours and Families, in a state of Malice, Vexation, Strife, and a kind of War against each other? Doth the Spirit of God indite the malicious Pamphlets, which exercise the utmost of Wit and Hatred, to destroy Love, and to call the Nation into the Devils Camp, by mutual hatred to live as