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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
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Ninthly, These divisions open a wide door to the utter ruin and destruction of the Kingdom. For they bring in deadly hatred above the hatred that is caused by Civill dissentions; even such a hatred that bursteth asunder the very bonds of nature it self, as Christ foretells, Joh. 16. 2. They shall kill you, and think they do therein God good service. What abominable hatred was there between the Jew and the Samaritan; in so much as that the Woman of Samaria wondered that Christ would ask a little water of her that was a Samaritan? From this hatred followeth, Excommunications, Anathematizations, &c. And from thence to fire and fagot, and to as exquisite torments as the wit or malice of men could invent. Witness the ten Persecutions. Witness the Spanish Inquisition. Witness the Parisian Massacre of the ⟨p. 17⟩Protestants upon Bartholomew Eve. Witness Queen Mary's bloody days. Witness the Divisions of the Greek Churches between the [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], and divers others of that kind (Pezelius reckons ten) which divisions first brought 1in the Saracens, and afterwards the Turks, who are the great scourge of Christendom to this day. These and many more are the mischiefs that arise from our divisions about matters of Religion.
Ninthly, These divisions open a wide doore to the utter ruine and destruction of the Kingdome. For they bring in deadly hatred above the hatred that is caused by Civill dissentions; even such a hatred that bursteth asunder the very bonds of nature it selfe, as Christ foretels, Ioh. 16. 2. They shall kill you, and thinke they doe therein God good service. What abominable hatred was there between the Iew and the Samaritane; in so much as that the Woman of Samaria wondered that Christ would aske a little water of her that was a Samaritane? From this hatred followeth, Excommunications, Anathematizations, &c. And from thence to fire and fagot, and to as exquisite torments as the wit or malice of men could invent. Witnesse the tenne Persecutions. Witnesse the Spanish Inquisition. Witnesse the Parisian Massacre of the ⟨p. 17⟩