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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69658	An exhortation to peace and union a sermon preached at St. Lawrence-Jury, at the election of the Lord-Mayor of London, on the 29th of September, 1681 / by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing B5787; ESTC R20821	24,063	40

that and other Superstitious Conceits than on a real Conversion of the Nation And how was this Island plagued after that by the Incursions and Depredations which the Danes made for near two Ages The Contests between the Greek and Latin Church ended in the Ruine of the Eastern Empire and the Triumphs of the Crescent over the Cross were in a great measure to be ascribed unto that most unhappy Breach I shall pursue this no more the thing is plain to common Observation and needs not to be fortified with much Proof It is as certain as any humane thing can possibly be that when any Body of men are engaged against a Common Enemy and yet divided among themselves and jealous of one another they will rather let the Enemy prevail than assist their brethren even in the wisest and best things if they think the honour of such actions will raise the credit of their Rivals And thus if their strength were ever so much superiour to the Enemies yet when his force is united and theirs disjointed they must become a prey to him but this will hold more certainly if the Common Enemy is really stronger than they are though united In such a case their heats among themselves are so unaccountable that though the World is naturally foolish enough yet it is not to be supposed that meer folly could carry such a madness so far there is more reason to ascribe it to the secret practices of corrupted and perfidious men who are imployed and may be hired to be Incendiaries perhaps on both sides For a wise and watchful Enemy when one Plot fails will soon set up another and will think it an extraordinary happiness if without the infamy of an Assassination of a Gun-powder Plot which they would not choose but upon extremities they can make their adversaries so spend their strength one against another that they shall either deliver themselves up to them or be able to make a very faint resistance to a vigorous impression And there is no design so certain as the inflaming of divisions among their adversaries and that both in Church and State which when they are once brought to that pass that both sides have vowed revenge either party will be so intent on their little designs that the whole must perish And some will perhaps come to think it safer to trust themselves to the mercy of their adversary than to the resentments of enraged Country-men And thus will they bite and devour one another till they are either consumed one of another or made an easie conquest to those that both see and improve all their advantage And so much I have adventur●● to say upon the First head I come now to the Secon●… 2. The beginnings of those heats are often very inconsiderable but by a confluence of unhappy Circumstances they soon grow to be almost incurable It is but a division at first but that will end in ruin All our evils flow from our own ill humours and whatever excites or provokes these be it how inconsiderable soever in its own nature yet its effects will grow great and remarkable In Civil matters it is so What a trifling thing was it among the Romans to be of the faction of the Veneti or Prasini that betted for matches in the Cirque which were distinguished by a Livery yet this produced great Convulsions in the Imperial City and when the Emperour hapned to be of either side that party of which he was thought they had an authority to exercise great Cruelties on all the other faction But this is much more dangerous if the ground of the difference is any point of Religion though ever so indifferent in it self What heats arose concerning the day on which Easter was to be observed How little did it concern Religion what Cecilian or his Ordainers were especially in the age after they were dead And yet not only a separation and violent rage but a great effusion of blood with the other dismal consequences of that blind fury followed upon this and the Africans continued quarrelling about it till the Vandals came and destroyed both the one and the other And surely many of the contests about mysteries began at some unwary expressions in which the one side fastned ill sences on the words spoken by the other and the other rather than yield so far for peace sake as to explain themselves choosed rather to justifie their words in any sense than to retract or mollifie them And can we think without astonishment that such matters as giving the Sacrament in leavened or unleavened bread or an explication of the procession of the Holy Ghost whether it was from the Father and the Son or from the Father by the Son could have rent the Greek and Latine Churches so violently one from another that the Latines rather than assist the other lookt on till they were destroyed by the Othoman Family which has ever since been so terrible a Neighbour to the rest of Europe Oft-times one contest beeds another and that which perhaps began at a speculative point ends in a practical one and that which begins in some Rite or Ceremony grows at last to a breach in matters of Faith The contests whether Christ had one or two wills being determined by the sixth General Council against the Monothelites they by their interest at Court got that Assembly to be decried so that a Picture of the Fathers that sate there being hung up in a great Church was removed and those that removed it said to excuse themselves that no Pictures or Images ought to be in Churches Upon this those of the other party did violently contend that Images ought not only to be set up but Worshipped and this produced great disorders in the East under two or three revolutions of the Court and in conclusion Italy shook off the Emperours Authority by the Popes instigation because he brake the Images And this gave the rise to another question whether the Sacrament was only the Image of Christ as the one party asserted or was the very substance of his body Both had Councils which in those Ages past for General ones of their side To what has the different explications of the presence of Christ in the Sacrament made by Luther and Zuinglius risen though it lies merely in speculation It has raised such an alienation that in many places the Lutherans are no less and in some they are more fierce against the Calvinists than against Papists Like a strange sort of people among our selves that are not ashamed to own a greater aversion to any sort of Dissenters than to the Church of Rome But to come nearer home To what has a contest that began at first about Hoods and Surplices risen amongst us Those points upon which it began have been long ago yielded up as indifferent but new matter will soon be found out by those who have a mind to search for it In the last age the heats about Divine Decrees