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444.
Ephefaan,r
Chap.
4,
VS
And not
loc-
kers
after
peace.
ID'fe
s.
Our
duty
is
to
feek
peace,but
in
the
Lord.
Two roles to
he
kept in
fucking peace.
Aofius
radi
fublenption
by
him much
.repented.
Duct,
A
peaceable
affeftion
is
an
excellent
man
of
Concord.
r
Cor.
3.
t
Cá.t;.S.
unto
and
intreated to be
at
peace, we
arc fo
much the
work
and
fur-
ther
off. Many idle ones
that
will fay, they love
peace
afwcll
as any
and
would not
live
at
difcord,
yet they
will not
friendly debate mat.
ters, nor break the
neck
of that which occafioneth the difcord. Nay
they
will
proudly nand
upon
termes,
Let
them
feek
that
are
in
fault,
I rake
not
my
kite
bound,
unlefle
I
knew wherein
I
had offended.
But
you
are
bound, though you
have done nothing againft him
,
yet
if
he
have
any
thing
againft
you, to repaire
to
him,
and fo much
as in
you
lyeth, not to
fit Rill,
but to follow peace and purfue it
when
it
flyes
from you.
It
mutt teach
us
our
duty,
we
muff
diligently endeavour to get
and
maintaine
Chriftian concord, yet
in
the Lord,
we
muff
fu
fare
feek
peace
with man,
as
that
we doe not make
warte with
God,
and there.
fore the Apoftle joyneth
peace and holineffe
together,
peace muff not
be
taken
with toile
of
purity
and
holineffe, men would thus thruft
peace upon us,and
fay,
Then
we may have peace
with
Rome;
God
forbid.
Many abufe there fentences;
Blefed
are the
Peacemakers;
endeavour
af,er
vnity; what then! Therefore
we
mutt not
trouble the
peaceof
the Churches,
by
impugning doctrine or ceremonies
,
but
fufpend,
tolerate and
conforme
in
fuch
things.
This
was the Plea
of
the
politick
Papifts
when
fire
their Religion was
rifled. But
two
things mutt
bee
anftvercd.
r.
That
it
is
not
every
agreement, but
a
Vnion of the
fpirit which
we muff
feek, not
a
Concord
in
error, or
idolatrous worfhip.
z.
We
muff feek fo
much
as in
us
lyeth, not
to
doe ill
that
good
may come
thereof; which
we
fhould doe,
if
we
fhould preferre
tranquillity before the confefling
of
Gods truth
to
his
glo-
ry,
or
the
keeping our felves
unfpotted
of
the garment
defiled.
A
man may buy gold
too deare. Some
of
you have read
the
ftory
of
old
Hof/us
who for
fubfcribing
to that
flexible word
é'xo,e-,
was
fo
grieved after, that it
brought
his
gray head with forrow
to the
grave.
Betide
the right way
of
making
Vnion
is
fet
downe
,
Luke
T.
57,
by
turning
the
di
[-obedient to
the
wifdome
of
the
prudent. By making the
Prophets
and
Apoftles acknowledge
us as
conformableto them.
Thirdly,it
is
to be marked,What
as
an excellent mean
of
holding concord,
even this,to
be
of
a
peaceable affeClìon,to
be
peaceably difpofed.
For
this
is
like
a
chaine
that
will notlet it ftartfrom
us; and
if
happily it be
a
little
departed
,
it
will fetch
it
back againe prefently.
For
a
peaceable affection,
r. Will
give no occafron
of
breaking
the Peace, but will
fay
as
Paul
cloth in
matters
of
things
indifferent,
I
would
rather never
eat
firth
then offend
my
brother.
z. A
peaceable difpofition will
fruftrate provocations to
difcord
that
they
fhall
not
have
their purpofe.
When
flint
lighteth
on
wooll
there commeth
forth
no fparkle, Lave will
not
be
provoked.
3.
A peaceable difpofition will give and forgive any thing,
and
fo
buy peace after
a
manner;
as
ofuffacar
it
is
faid
;
He loved
peace
amt
tailed