And Oh, that this truth, might not at this day, be written with the blood of almost expiring Ireland. Yea, it hath lastly descended to dissension, betwixt private parties, witness the horrible murder of Diazius, 1whose brains were chopped out with an axe, by his own brother Alphonsus, for forsaking the Romish Religion: what rents in State, what grudgings, hatreds and exasperations ⟨image 5⟩of mind, among private men, have happened by reason of some inferior differences, we all at this day grieve to behold; tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum: most concerning then is it for us to endeavour obedience, to our Saviours precept, of seeking first the kingdom of God, that we may be partakers, of the good things, comprised in the promise annexed: were there but this one Argument, for to seek the peace of the Church, because thereon depends the peace of the Common wealth, it were sufficient to quicken our utmost industry, for the attaining of it. Now what peace in the Church, without Truth? all conformity to any thing else, is but the agreement of Herod and Pilate, to destroy Christ and his Kingdom, neither is it this, or that, particular truth, but the whole Counsel of God, revealed unto us, without adding, or detracting, whose embracement is required, to make our Peace firm and stable. No halting betwixt Jehovah and Baal; Christ and Antichrist, as good be all Philistine, and worshippers of Dagon, as to speak part the language of Ashdod, and part the language of the Jews: hence, hence hath been the rise of all our miseries, of all our dissentions, whilst factious men, laboured every day, to commend themselves to them, who ⟨image 5⟩sate aloft in the Temple of God, by introducing new Popish Arminian errors, whose Patronage they had wickedly undertaken: who would have thought, that our Church, would ever have given entertainment, to these Belgic Semipelagians, who have cast dirt upon the faces, and raked up the ashes, of all those great and pious souls, whom God magnified, in using as his instruments to reform his Church; to the least of which, the whole troop of Arminians, shall never make themselves equal, though they swell till they break? what benefit did ever come to this Church, by attempting to prove, that the chief part, in the several degrees of our salvation, is to be ascribed unto our selves, rather then God?
And Oh, that this truth, might not at this day, be written with the blood of almost expiring Ireland. Yea, it hath lastly descended to dissention, betwixt private parties, witnesse the horrible murder of Diazius, 1whose brains were chopt out with an axe, by his own brother Alphonsus, for forsaking the Romish Religion: what rents in State, what grudgings, hatreds and exasperations ⟨image 5⟩of mind, among private men, have happened by reason of some inferiour differences, we all at this day grieve to behold; tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum: most concerning then is it for us to endevour obedience, to our Saviours precept, of seeking first the kingdome of God, that we may be partakers, of the good things, comprised in the promise annexed: were there but this one Argument, for to seek the peace of the Church, because thereon depends the peace of the Common wealth, it were sufficient to quicken our utmost industry, for the attaining of it. Now what peace in the Church, without Truth? all conformitie to any thing else, is but the agreement of Herod and Pilate, to destroy Christ and his Kingdome, neither is it this, or that, particular truth, but the whole Counsell of God, revealed unto us, without adding, or detracting, whose embracement is required, to make our Peace firme and stable. No halting betwixt Iehovah and Baal; Christ and Antichrist, as good be all Philistine, and worshippers of Dagon, as to speake part the language of Ashdod, and part the language of the Iewes: hence, hence hath been the rise of all our miseries, of all our dissentions, whilest factious men, laboured every day, to commend themselves to them, who ⟨image 5⟩sate aloft in the Temple of God, by introducing new Popish Arminian errors, whose Patronage they had wickedly undertaken: who would have thought, that our Church, would ever have given entertainment, to these Belgicke Semipelagians, who have cast dirt upon the faces, and raked up the ashes, of all those great and pious soules, whom God magnified, in using as his instruments to reforme his Church; to the least of which, the whole troope of Arminians, shall never make themselves equall, though they swell till they breake? what benefit did ever come to this Church, by attempting to prove, that the chiefe part, in the severall degrees of our salvation, is to be ascribed unto our selves, rather then God?
- 1Sleid. Come.Sleid. Com.
