[ l ] r •, ,· An Hiflorical Prologue; a5 a Key to u1t ~ derftand our Eng!ijJJ Dijferen.ces. - §L IT is 'a dreadful Infbnce of the fotri!11 de- ~ ~ · ceivablenefs of Mankind, that one of the · · A moO: happy Kingdoms on Earth, ibould be almofi confumed by their own hand:;, in DiviGons infamous through the World, and that to this very day the Caufe and Matter of rhetl), is hot knowh (except by the contrivet·s, among our {elves) by fuch who tnadly continue the Di– vifions. Nor is it known who is in the faulr, but they !lrive on, accufing one another. And it's one of the facdefi notices in this World, that fiudi– ous Learned Pafiors that are grown old in Studies; and profefs all to be devoted tO Ti·uth and Love, are fo far from having skill and will to heal us,that they are the ·men .that caufe the \.\'9und, and keep it open, and are greater hinderers of our Concord and Peace, than Princes, Lords, or any Sec_ulars : Andwhat one judgeth the certain Caufe of the Worlds Divifions, another as confidently judgeth the only way to heal them : And both tides con– fers while they lay it on each othe-r, that it is the Clergy that are the deadliefl Enemies of Peace. § II. It is not the noife of Drums and Trum– pets, which tells an Army the caufes of the War 1 The 'Mafiers of the War can chufe their own– Trumpeters, and talk loudefi ·of that which they· ·Would hav~t divert men from the true caufe. Epii~ B ' ,
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