[ 1032] The sad condition of Church and State, not to be sleighted.
WHen the body of slaughtered Azahel was left in the high-way side,* 1.1 there was not a man which came by, but stayed. When Iacob had the sight of Iosephs bloody coat, he mourned, and would go down into the grave after him, refusing to be comfort. The shewing of Caesars bloody robe in the market-place, set all the Romans in a tumult. And is it possible, that any true hearted Christian now living,* 1.2 can vvith drie eyes behold the scissures and maimes, which every cor∣ner both of Church and State are subject to? to see the tattered rags and relicks of a wounded, bleeding, dying Church; to see Churches made dunghills, and the Temple a stable for horses;* 1.3 Horresco referens. The stories of the Antients, are full of examples of this nature; and, which is to be lamented, we were not, till of late years, unfurnished therewith.