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

A second aggravation of the misery of our divisions, is, Surely none will pity us in all that evil that comes upon us by them. If God should have suffered our enemies to have prevailed against us, all the Protestant party in the world would have pitied us. If those who escaped had fled for their lives to them, they would have entertained them with much compassion. But if we mischief our selves by our divisions, we shall be looked upon as contemptible in the eyes of all. If we should fly to them, we may expect to be entertained with rebukes; You are an unworthy generation, God put a price into your hands, to have done your selves and all the Protestant party good; you might have freed your selves from thraldom, and many ways have been helpful to us, but you had such proud, envious, quarrelsome spirits, that you brake asunder one from another, you mischieved one another, and so have undone your selves and your posterity; yea are not worthy to live amongst men. Can we be able to bear such rebukes as these? Every man that is in misery desires to be pitied, but this misery is like to be such, as no pity can be expected in it.

A second aggravation of the misery of our divisions, is, Surely none will pitty us in all that evill that comes upon us by them. If God should have suffered our enemies to have prevailed against us, all the Protestant party in the world would have pittied us. If those who escaped had fled for their lives to them, they would have entertained them with much compassion. But if we mischief our selves by our divisions, we shall be looked upon as contemptible in the eyes of all. If we should flye to them, we may expect to be entertained with rebukes; You are an unworthy generation, God put a price into your hands, to have done your selves and all the Protestant party good; you might have freed your selves from thraldome, and many wayes have been helpfull to us, but you had such proud, envious, quarrelsome spirits, that you brake asunder one from another, you mischieved one another, and so have undone your selves and your posterity; yea are not worthy to live amongst men. Can we be able to bear such rebukes as these? Every man that is in misery desires to be pittied, but this misery is like to be such, as no pitty can be expected in it.