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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78979	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.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1645 (1645)	Wing C256; Thomason E23_5; ESTC R21745	38,703	51

Lord Thus must we deale with our sinnes and then we shall have peace For as the lines in a circumference that are drawne to the Center the neerer they are to the Center the neerer they are one to another So the neerer any men come to God in similitude and likenesse the neerer they will be ioyned one to another in unitie and love For if any may say he loveth God and hateth his brother he is a lier For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seene how can he love God whom he hath not seene And this Commandement have we from him that he that loveth God love his brother also 1 Ioh. 4. 20 21. Secondly Take heed of the Land-destroying Opinion of those that plead for an illimited toleration of all Religions even of Turkisme Iudaisme c. The Lord keepe us from being poisoned with such an Error This Text riseth up against it For it will divide a Kingdome against it selfe It will rend it into a thousand pieces It it a Doctrine directly contrary to your late Oath and Covenant A Doctrine that overthroweth all Church-Government bringeth in confusion and openeth a wide doore unto all irreligion and Atheisms For at the same doore tha all false religious come in the true Religion will quickly get out And if it be as good for a man to live where nothing is lawfull as where all things are lawfull surely it is every way as uncomfortable to live where there are all Religions as where there is no Religion at all Thirdly To heale our Divisions we must labour to be cloathed with the garment of humility For onely by pride saith the Wiseman cometh contention Prov. 13. 10. Now there is a double humilitie we must be cloathed withall humilitie of iudgement and humilitie of heart First humilitie of iudgement to thinke that others may know the truth as well as our selves to have a low esteeme of our owne understanding For he that thinketh he knoweth any thing he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know 1 Cor. 8. 2. And if any man teach otherwise c. saith the Apostle 1 Tim. 6. 3. 9. He is proud knowing nothing c. And therefore let us not be wise in our owne eyes nor leane to our owne understandings Prov. 3. 5. 4. Secondly humilitie of heart An humble heart is a peaceable quiet heart An humble heart will be sensible of the least sinne much more of this great sinne to distract and destroy the peace of three Kingdomes by unnecessary disputations Fourthly Labour for grace to contemne the world and all worldly things For many times divisions arise out of base Covetousnesse It was the love of the world that divided Demas from Paul And therefore it is said 1 Tim. 3. 3. That a Minister must not be greedie of filthy lucre and as if that were not sufficient he addes nor covetous And therefore if you would live in unitie and peace Take heed and beware of covetousnesse Fifthly Pray for the spirit of meeknesse patience long-sufferance and for mortified affections It is one of the Ingredients required in a Minister that he should be one That is not soone angry Titus 1. 7. and one that is patient no striker no brawler 1 Tim. 3. 3 Meeknesse and Patience and Mortification are necessary Ingredients into that Medicine that must cure our divided Kingdome For an angry man stirreth up strife and a furious man aboundeth in transgressions Prov. 29. 22. Vnmortified affections are the cause of much disturbance in Families and Cities And therefore Christ saith Mar. 9. 50. Have salt in your selves and have peace one with another This salt is the salt of Mortification We must labour to have our anger mortified our love of the world mortified our pride mortified and this will be a notable meanes to make us at peace one with another As in the Old Law every sacrifice was to be seasoned with salt So let every man pray for This salt within himselfe to season his unmortified affections and this will keepe him from putrifying in malice envie hatred c. Sixthly Let all thy private aimes be swallowed up in the publique good Let the Cause of Iesus Christ and his Church be dearer to thee then thine owne life and this frame of spirit will exceedingly incline thee to all lawfull waies of peace and unitie Remember Old Ely and how his heart trembled for the Arke of God 1 Sam. 4. 13. 18. He trembled not for the thought of his children but for the Arke and assoone as ever mention was made of the taking of the Arke he fell downe and brake his necke he was not troubled at the mention of the death of his two sonnes c. The like we read of his daughter in law 1 Sam. 4. 19 10 21 22. The like of Nehemiah who was in great prosperitie himselfe and yet how was he distressed in spirit for the miseries of Ierusalem Nehem. 1. 4. The like we read of Daniel c. Seventhly We must nip Divisions in the bud and quench the fire of Contention at the beginning That fire is easily quenched at first which when it hath once taken possession is not to be quenched The Lord grant it be not laid to our charge that we have suffered Englands distractions to grow to such a height and have not laboured in our severall places to compose and quiet them Eightly Let us yeeld one to another for peace sake Famous is the example of Abraham and worthy of all imitation who yeelded his right up to Lot who was his younger and inferiour for peace sake Gen. 13. 9. If thou wilt take the left hand then I will goe to the right or if thou departest to the right hand then I will goe to the left Ninthly Take heed of groundlesse iealousies and suspicious one of another This is Englands great sinne and the chiefe cause of many distempers amongst us We are like unto the children of Israel who when they came first out of Egypt did almost deifie Moses and Aaron But afterward assoone as ever they began to meete with straights and difficulties they began presently to murmur against them and to call their fidelitie into question and to accuse them as if they had a designe to bring them into the Wildernesse to destroy them Exod. 16. 2 3. Iust so doe we When our Armies for our sinnes are justly punished with ill successe instead of reflecting upon our sinnes to be troubled for them we fall a murmuring against our Chiefe Commanders and question their fidelitie as if they had a designe to betray us into the enemies hand I doe not speake this as if I would countenance any Commander that is guilty or hinder just complaints of and inquiries after those that are guilty or the use of just meanes to be rid of such But all that I say is That to fasten uniust suspitions and groundlesse iealousies upon those that venture their lives and estates in the common cause is to be