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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.
Secondly, There is no war so cruel as Civill war: and therefore you shall observe, that the Hagarens, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Edomites, were the greatest enemies that the people of Israel had: Now these were of the kindred 1of the people of Israel; The hatred of brethren is most bitter when they fall out: You have an example of this in the 20. of Judg. 48. The people of Israel, they went to fight against their brethren, and when they had conquered them they did not only kill ⟨p. 9⟩every man they met withal, but they killed every beast that they met withal, and they killed every thing that came to hand: It is a strange expression, to show the cruelty of Civill war: and you know how the blood-thirsty Cavaliers, at Oxford, do hunger and thirst to drink Cups full of the blood of the Roundheads (as they call us).
Secondly, There is no warre so cruell as Civill warre: and therefore you shall observe, that the Hagarens, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Edomites, were the greatest enemies that the people of Israel had: Now these were of the kindred 1of the people of Israel; The hatred of brethren is most bitter when they fall out: You have an example of this in the 20. of Iudg. 48. The people of Israel, they went to fight against their brethren, and when they had conquered them they did not onely kill ⟨p. 9⟩every man they met withall, but they kild every beast that they met withall, and they kild every thing that came to hand: It is a strange expression, to shew the crueltie of Civill warre: and you know how the bloud-thirstie Cavalieres, at Oxford, doe hunger and thirst to drinke Cups full of the bloud of the Roundheads (as they call us).
- 1Odia proximorum sunt cerrima.