378 The Bl do ff of the Peace-makers. S E R M. only, having reconciled us to God by the XIV. blood of his crofs, but having colleaed toge- ther unto one body, or one harmonious fo- ciety, whereof himfelf is the head, all the true worfhippers of God, on a catholick foun- dation ; for he hath made both yews and Gentiles one, and, bath broken down the mid- dle wall of partition between them, having abolifhed in his flefh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, for to make in himfelf of twain one new man, fo making peace. Purfuant to which the defign of the gofpel, and the effeft of it where it is fincerely embraced, is the bleffing of a dif- fufive peace among men, foretold by the prophet, Ifa. ii. 3, 4. when the law of chri- $ianity fhall go forth out of Sion, and the word of the Lord from ferufalem, the people fhall beat their fwords into plouf.'ares, and their fpears into pruning hooks, nation Jkall not lift up fword again /I nation, neither fall they learn war any more ; thus figuratively de- fcribed in the i ith chapter of the fame book from the 6th verfe, The wolf fball dwell with the lamb, and the leopard (hall' lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion, and the fatling together, and a little child ¡hall lead them; and the cow and the bear (hallfeed their young ones fkall lie down together, and 2 the
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