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An indictment against England because of her self-murdering divisionsAn indictment against England because of her selfe-murdering divisions
An indictment against England because of her self-murdering divisions: together with an exhortation to an England-preserving unity and concord. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords in the Abby church at Westminster; at the late solemn fast, December 25. 1644. By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury in London.An indictment against England because of her selfe-murdering divisions: together vvith an exhortation to an England-preserving vnity and concord. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords in the Abby church at Westminster; at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastour of Aldermanbury in London.
London: printed by I. L. for Christopher Meredith, 1645
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The third Comfort is: That Antichrist shall down though he be never so firmly united. The Kingdom of the Devil shall be destroyed though Satan join with Satan. And though Satan will not cast out Satan, but is strongly compacted, and as a City at unity within it self, yet God will cast out Satan at last, and his kingdom shall perish. Though Turk and Pope; though French and Spaniard; though the Irish Rebels, and English Papists and ⟨p. 40⟩Protestants at large should join hand in hand & conspire together to overthrow the little flock of Jesus Christ, yet notwithstanding they do but kick against pricks. Antichrist is fallen, and the poor flock of Christ shall be as a burdensome stone unto all people; all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it, Zach. 12. 3. Bellarmine makes unity a sign of a true Church. But then there should be a true Church amongst the Devils; for where he dwells there is peace. And yet the Papists cannot boast much of their unity. For they have their different Sects opposite one to another, and the Jesuit to them all. Unity without verity is a sign of the Malignant Church, but not of the Church of Christ. And unity without verity, shall not uphold a State. For though hand join in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished, Prov. 11. 21.
The third Comfort is: That Antichrist shall downe though he be never so firmely united. The Kingdome of the Devil shall be destroyed though Satan joyne with Satan. And though Satan will not cast out Satan, but is strongly compacted, and as a Citie at unitie within it selfe, yet God will cast out Satan at last, and his kingdome shall perish. Though Turke and Pope; though French and Spaniard; though the Irish Rebels, and English Papists and ⟨p. 40⟩Protestants at large should joyn hand in hand & conspire together to overthrow the little flock of Iesus Christ, yet notwithstanding they doe but kick against pricks. Antichrist is fallen, and the poore flock of Christ shall be as a burdensome stone unto all people; all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it,