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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.
And then let us mourn for the rent that is amongst the Members. Is if not a sad thing to see the Members rent and torn one from the other? Nobleman against Nobleman, Gentleman against Gentleman, Citizen against Citizen; Father against Son, and Son against Father, &c. And that which England never saw till this day, A pretended Oxford Parliament, against a true Westminster Parliament?
And then let us mourne for the rent that is amongst the Members. Is if not a sad thing to see the Members rent and torne one from the other? Nobleman against Nobleman, Gentleman against Gentleman, Citizen against Citizen; Father against Sonne, and Sonne against Father, &c. And that which England never saw till this day, A pretended Oxford Parliament, against a true Westminster Parliament?
And especially, Let us bemoan, and bewail the Divisions that are amongst our selves here at home: That we that are all engaged in the same Cause, and in the same Covenant, and that are under ⟨p. 13⟩the same condemnation, under the unjust charge of Rebellion, that there should be such differences, and such divisions amongst us, even amongst us, whose heart doth not bleed to think of it? That though Hannibal ad portas, yet the Senators of Rome should be at difference amongst themselves; the Lords should divide from the Commons, and the Commons from the Lords, whilst the enemy is seeking to destroy both Lords and Commons?
And especially, Let us bemoane, and bewaile the Divisions that are amongst our selves here at home: That we that are all ingaged in the same Cause, and in the same Covenant, and that are under ⟨p. 13⟩the same condemnation, under the unjust charge of Rebellion, that there should be such differences, and such divisions amongst us, even amongst us, whose heart doth not bleed to thinke of it? That though Hannibal ad portas, yet the Senators of Rome should be at difference amongst themselves; the Lords should divide from the Commons, and the Commons from the Lords, whilest the enemy is seeking to destroy both Lords and Commons?