Eighthly, they are like to lay a foundation of much evil to posterity, this consideration is almost as sad as any. We think it a great evil that Kings children should be brought up in the sight of blood, that they should be in danger to have principles of cruelty or tyranny infused into them in their tender age; we are afraid lest the muddy water they drink now should breed diseases in them that may break out afterward. Surely it is a great evil also for the children of the Church, to be brought up in the sight and exercise of divisions in matters of Religion; that that knowledge of Religion which they now take in, should ⟨p. 221⟩be as troubled waters full of soil. In the beginning of this Parliament there was as hopeful a generation of young ones coming up as ever the Sun saw, but many of them have lost their lives in this public Cause; God will certainly take a valuable consideration at the hands of the adversaries for their blood especially; we have cause to bless God for them: God made use of them to stop the rage, the overflowing of the proud adversaries upon us; they have served their generation, and have been more useful in it, then others who have lived 70. or 80. years formerly: but for those who are preserved, these divisions in the things of Religion have spoiled many of them, they are carried away with such a strange kind of spirit of error, of conceitedness, folly, wilfulness, bitterness, licentiousness, and boldness, that their hopeful beginnings are lost, so that the next generation is like to reap very sour, bitter, and unwholesome fruits of these our quarrels and contentions. By what hath been said you may see why the Spirit of God, Prov. 6. 19. puts the sowers of discord amongst those whom God hates: What the harvest of such seed is like to be, we shall see in the next Head.
Eighthly, they are like to lay a foundation of much evill to posterity, this consideration is almost as sad as any. We think it a great evill that Kings children shold be brought up in the sight of bloud, that they should be in danger to have principles of cruelty or tyranny infused into them in their tender age; we are afraid lest the muddy water they drink now should breed diseases in them that may break out afterward. Surely it is a great evill also for the children of the Church, to be brought up in the sight and exercise of divisions in matters of Religion; that that knowledge of Religion which they now take in, should ⟨p. 221⟩be as troubled waters full of soyle. In the beginning of this Parliament there was as hopefull a generation of young ones comming up as ever the Sun saw, but many of them have lost their lives in this publique Cause; God will certainly take a valuable consideration at the hands of the adversaries for their blood especially; we have cause to blesse God for them: God made use of them to stop the rage, the overflowing of the proud adversaries upon us; they have served their generation, and have been more usefull in it, then others who have lived 70. or 80. yeers formerly: but for those who are preserved, these divisions in the things of Religion have spoiled many of them, they are carryed away with such a strange kind of spirit of error, of conceitednesse, folly, wilfulnesse, bitternesse, licentiousnesse, and boldnesse, that their hopefull beginnings are lost, so that the next generation is like to reap very sowr, bitter, and unwholsome fruits of these our quarrels and contentions. By what hath been said you may see why the Spirit of God, Prov. 6. 19. puts the sowers of discord amonst those whom God hates: What the harvest of such seed is like to be, we shall see in the next Head.
