4.0o The Blfèdnefs of the Peace - makers. S E R M. dency of their paffions fometimes furious like XIV. fire, the raging fea, flormy winds and tetn- `" pefls, but like them are all over -ruled by him who fitting at the helm guideth their rapid motions, moderateth their rage, fixeth their bounds, and preventeth the ruin they threa- ten : So that, contemplating the order of the world, we ought with the Pfalmifl, devout- ly to celebrate the praife of the peace- making God, who flilleth the noife of the feas, the noife of their waves, and the tumult of the people, Pfal. lxv. 7. But efpecially, the peace of the chriflian churches is to be attributed to him ; he commandeth and enforceth it by the flrongefl motives and perfuafions in his word ; and for this he giveth his holy fpirit to his children, for the Jruit of the fpirit is love and peace : That peace which is the re- fuit of charity, the b,nd of perfe?nefs, and which he would have always to rule among chriflians, beareth his facred name, it is call- ed the peace of God, Col. iii. 15. and the apoftle telleth us, Cor. xiv. 33. that God is not the author of coffon but of peace, in all churches of the faints. It retnaineth, now, only that we confider the dignity imported in this charafler the children of God. Among men honour de- fcendeth from parents to their pofterity, if they
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