L 388 DISCOURSE ON THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH. peace," Acts x. 36; Eph. ii. 17. It was a principal end and effect of his death " to reconcile all men, and to destroy enmity," Col. L 20; Eph. ii. 14, 15. He speciallycharged his disciples siprivsóssv iv &XXXors, to " maintain peace one with another," Mark ix. 50. It was his will at parting with them, "Peace I leave with you," John xiv. 27. The apostles frequently enjoin to " pursue peace with all them who call uponthe Lord with a pure heart," 2 Tim. ii. 22; to " follow the things which make for peace and edification mutual," Rom. xiv. 19; to "keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace," Eph. iv. 3. It was in the prophecies concerning the evangelical state declared, that under it " the wolf should dwell with the lamb, and the leopard should lie downwith thekid, and the sucking child should play on the hole of theasp," Isa. xi. 6-8, lxvi. 12; "They shall learn war nomore," chap. ii. 4; that is, that men of all tempers and conditions, by vir- tue of this institution, should be disposed to live innocently, quietly, and lovingly together, so that " they should not hurt nor destroy in all God's holy mountain," Isa. lxv. 25; for that would be a duty in- cumbent on the disciples of this institution, which all good Christians would observe. The evangelical covenant, as it allies us to God, so it confederates us together. The sacraments of this covenant are also symbols of peace and amity between those whoundertake it. Of baptism it is said, " That so many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ ;" and thence, "Ye are all one in Christ Jesus," Gal. iii. 27, 28. "All in one Spirit have been baptized into one body," 1 Cor. xii. 13. And in the eucharist, by partaking of one individual food, theyare transmuted into one body and substance. " We," says St Paul, " being many are one bread, one body; for all of us partake of one bread," 1 Cor. x. 17. "By which sacrament, also, our people appear to be united; for as many grains, collected, and ground, and mingled together, make one bread, so in Christ, who is the bread of heaven, we may know ourselves to be one body, that our companyor number be conjoined and united together."' " Withus there is both one church, and one mind, and undivided concord."' " Let us hold the peace of the catholic church in the unity of concord."' 1 Quo et ipso sacramento populus noster adunatus ostenditur: ut quemadmodùm grana multa inunum collecta, et commolita, et commixta, panem unum faciunt; sic in Christo, qui est panis ceelestis, unum sciamus esse corpus, cui conjunctus sit noster numerus et adunatus. Cypr., Ep. lxiii. 2 Nobis et ecclesiauna, et mens juncta, et individua concordia.Cppr. Ep. lvii. 3 Catholicse ecclesios pacem concordiasunitate teneamus. Ep. xlv.
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