Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

But 3. days before this great goodness of God, by special §2Order from the House of Commons, there was a day set apart to humble our souls before the Lord, and to seek him for this mercy that now we rejoice in, & in our Humiliation was not this one great sin we did confess our divisions? did we not then acknowledge that it were righteous with God because of our divisions, to give us up as a prey to our adversaries? Now then, have not our divisions overcome Gods goodness, lest Gods goodness overcome our divisions? Suppose there had been a day of Humiliation set apart to mourn under the heavy hand of God against us in delivering us up into the hands of our enemies, as (through his mercy we have had a day of Thanksgiving, to bless him for our deliverance from them) would not this sin have been the matter of a great part of the confession of all your Ministers? Oh the divisions that are amongst us! Thou hast dealt righteously with us. Our wraths were up one against another, and just it is with thee O Lord to let out the rage of the Adversary upon us; & shall we yet continue in that after a mercy, which we have confessed might justly have prevented the mercy? shall we still be guilty of that wch our consciences tell us would have been the burden of them, as the just •ause of our misery, if the Lord had come against us in his sore displeasure? God forbid. Let not that evil now be found ⟨p. 130⟩in us, that would have galled our consciences, if mercy had been denied us.

But 3. days before this great goodnesse of God, by speciall §2Order from the House of Commons, there was a day set apart to humble our souls before the Lord, and to seek him for this mercy that now we rejoyce in, & in our Humiliation was not this one great sinne we did confess our divisions? did we not then acknowledg that it were righteous with God because of our divisions, to give us up as a prey to our adversarie•? Now then, have not our divisions overcom Gods goodnes, lest Gods goodness overcome our divisions? Suppose there had been a day of Humiliation set apart to mourn under the heavy hand of God against us in delivering us up into the hands of our enemies, as (through his mercy we have had a day of Thanksgiving, to blesse him for our deliverance from them) would not this sinn have been the matter of a great part of the comfession of all your Ministers? Oh the divisions that are amongst us! Thou hast dealt righteously with us. Our wraths were up one against another, and just it is with thee O Lord to let out the rage of the Adversary upon us; & shall we yet continue in that after a mercy, which we have confessed might justly have prevented the mercy? shall we stil be guilty of that wch our consciences tell us would have been the burden of them, as the just ause of our misery, if the Lord had come against us in his sore displeasure? God forbid. Let not that evill now be found