nd Charity will revive again
amongst us, _Mercy and Truth will meet together; righteousness and peace
shall kiss each other_.

But let us now consider on the other side, the confusion, which must of
necessity light upon us if we persist in our rebellion and obstinacy; We
are already impoverisht, and consum'd with war and the miseries that
attend it; you have wasted our treasure, and destroyed the Woods, spoyled
the Trade, and shaken our properties; a universall animosity is in the
very bowells of the Nation; the Parent against the Children, and the
Children against the Parents, betraying one another to the death; in
summe, if that have any truth which our B. _Saviour_ has himself
pronounced, _That a Kingdome divided cannot stand_, it is impossible we
should subsist in the condition we are reduc'd to. Consider we again, how
ridiculous our late proceedings have made us to our neighbours round about
us. Their _Ministers_ laugh at our extream{4} giddinesse, and we seem to
mock at their addresses: for no sooner do their _Credentialls_ arrive,
but behold the scean is changed, and the Government is fled, he that now
acted King, left a fool in his place, and they stand amazed at out
_Buffoonery_ and madnesse.

What then may we imagine will be the product of all these disadvantages,
when the Nations that deride and hate us, shall be united for our
destruction; and that the harvest is ripe for the sickle of their fury?
shall we not certainly be a prey to an inevitable ruine, having thus
weakned our selves by a brutish civill war, and cut off those glorious
_Heros_, the wise and the valiant, whose courage in such a calamity we
shall in vain imploar, that would bravely have sacrificed themselves for
our delivery? Let us remember how often we have served a forraign people,
and that there is nothing so confident, but a provoked God can overthrow.

For my part, I tremble, but to consider what may be the issue of these
things, when our iniquities are full, and that God shall make inquisition
for the bloud that has been spilt; unlesse we suddainly meet him by an
unfained repentance, and turn from all the abominations by which we have
provoaked him; And then, it is to be hoped, that he who would have
compounded with the _Father of the faithfull_, had there been but ten
Righteous men in _Sodom_; and that spared _Nineveh_ that populous and
great City; will yet have mercy on us, hearken to the prayers, and have
regard to the teares, of so