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…

but O unhappy time when the ground of Religion (which is the prop of our Soul shall thus consist in contradiction) we have no hopes of gaining Heaven by disputing niceties: for the mind of that assailant which is molested with different allarums is easily dismayed: neither can we be safe by continually floating in the Ocean of divers factions: and if we begin not by time to secure our selves, Alas! who shall provide for so many griefs, so many evils: nor will it be almost possible: after (so much digression) to reduce divine things to their just balance that they suffer no impeachment: though it will be but deserved of him (which is not satisfied with that true light which the Sun by the virtue of its beams doth please to Communicate) to have his arrogance ⟨p. 9⟩rewarded with the loss of his sight, And O the fond curiosity of our nature! amusing it self to preoccupate future things: when it hath enough to do to digest the present; but thou wilt say perchance thou art zealous, sincere, & Religious in thy profession: So far I go with thee, & only wish it were with knowledge, temper▪ & discretion: for know though no man can be too p• in his life or doctrine, nor with his best endeavours attain perfection as he should, yet though he offend not against the purity of doctrine, or sincerity of his faith, yet if he rashly separate himself from the Church (breaking the bond of unity) he may incur the censure of an Schismatic: & most justly, if for any sinister ends private respects, vain-glory, or temporal commodity, either against the Articles of his faith or Doctrine of the Church grounded upon Gods Word; which indeed proves too apart in these times; Let such witness who are more ignorant then Plato's Phylodoxes, lovers of their own opinions, which (through their windiness) are likely to resolve the world again into its first Chaos, and make it a Babel not of Languages but Sects: which like Hydras stuffed with poison, or like old vessels full of new wine, fantasies, and strange revelations, reject every thing as Profane which is contrary to their opinion: who are too wise in Gods eternal Counsels, making such as they fancy or please to be elect, others reprobates: when as how darest thou pry into the secret designs of Gods Divine will, and the incomprehensible motives of his works;

but O unhappy time when the ground of Religion (which is the prop of our Soule shall thus consist in contradiction) we have no hopes of gayning Heaven by disputing nicities: for the minde of that assailant which is molested with different allarums is easily dismayed: neither can we be safe by continually floting in the Ocean of divers factions: and if we beginne not by time to secure our selves, Alas! who shall provide for so many greifes, so many evills: nor will it be almost possible: after (so much digression) to reduce divine things to their just ballance that they suffer no impeachment: though it will be but deserved of him (which is not satisfied with that true light which the Sun by the vertue of its beames doth please to Communicate) to have his arrogance