Eugenia's tears for Great Britons distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…Evgenia's teares for Great Brittaynes distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…

Ille etiam extincto miseratus Caesare Romam Cum caput obscura nitidum ferrngine texit.

And why weeps learned Athens? which (like those young men and D•mosells) sets mourning under the spreading Myrtle, which was once grac'• with the wearied limbs of their lost l•ves, burning whole piles of Beech-trees under that hallowed shade, and hastening to be sprinkle it with the richest spices which may send sweet perfumes to the Heavens; and (fi•ing sacred Tapers on every side) do nothing but beat their breasts, and howl Epitaphs to the Echoing Groves; why doth learning and Religion (like Hippocrates Twins) thus weep and laugh together? where's the plea•g harmony of your well according tunes? Alas! that the Militia of Theology should thus turn to a disaffected multitude▪ and express nothing so much as the imbitternesse of dissenting minds: which with their own venom are likely to consume themselves and others: and O that those grey-hairs which like so many Champions have fought thy Duels against that Idolatrous Key-keeper and his wicked adherents, should thus go down with sorrow to their grave▪ it is only proper for a bloody Herod to take off the innocent with the guilty, neither seems, it indifferent that if some few have been faulty in the lightness of their ware, there should be no more of the profession: but if any have too much leaned to the Bald-pates of Baal's Priests, darkening the world and casting ⟨p. 8⟩erroneous Mists before the eyes of ignorance and with the Athenians erected Altars to the unknown God, my heart shall not think, neither dares my pen write any thing in their behalf, but digna est tua religio odio; let one or more suffer as they have been faulty, but O let there be some to excel others, least humane ignorance Mask, or self-willed perverseness dangerously cloud the beauty of that Religion, which is now otherwise likely to be rent into many various parcels: how hath the State been this way lately sick of too much repletion, when the very factious appropriate to themselves the name of the true Israelites: certainly it is not for every one zealously to worship his own opinion, when it savours not of Divine inspiration: in this particular we need not seek our evils without us: and because we feel our selves not throughly sick our recovery is likely to be the more difficult: