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

Secondly, by them we serve the designs of our enemies; what would they have given when they first divided from us, to have procured so great divisions amongst our selves, as have been, & yet are? If a Million would have purchased them, rather then they should not have been, they would (no question) have given it; I am sure they further their designs more then many Millions would have done:

Secondly, by them we serve the designes of our enemies; what would they have given when they first divided from us, to have procured so great divisions amongst our selves, as have been, & yet are? If a Million would have purchased them, rather then they should not have been, they would (no question) have given it; I am sure they further their designes more then many Millions would have done:

Hoc Ithacus velit, & magna mercentur Atridae.

We have often said that some who have kept at the Parliament have served the designs of the King and those about him better then they who were with him. Certainly those who foment divisions amongst us, do serve our enemies turn more then many that are with them. When in our contentions our spirits rise one against another, and we reproach one another, we do not consider, ¹says Nazianzen, how unsafe it is to put weapons into our enemies hands. Yea he thought in his time, though near thirteen hundred years since, the divisions of the Churches to be a great means to further and hasten the coming of Antichrist: for so he says in the same Oration before quoted, I verily fear lest Antichrist should come suddenly upon these our divisions, ²