70 j _______ ~_h_e_Sa_i_nt_s_fi_ur_e ______ S d . k .d · And in this Confpiracie, bee joynes unto himo oe w1c e r. l . .d d b I . 1 men, · : 1e few1cke an .repro · ate .men, to ray e, re_vt e, • • .J I and rage ao-bainfl: finceritic : I,and befides,a mans "'no a mans . . . o~l:'iecorrup· • owne corruptwn, and fi.nfull flefh, cloth fret anq tions. l fume,. when it feeles it felfe curbed and fnaffied by the Law ofthe S.pirit. . . ~ Iiphef. 6,If· The Gofpel indeed is a Go!J?el of Peace : ~ut of what Pea'e ?-Of Peace with God, with good menJ and a mans owne.Confcience ;_of the Peace that paj]'ethallunder}landing: But it ever proclaimes. open wane againtl: wickedneffe, prophaneneffe,. and -corruptions; it will have no-peacewjth im~ . pietie ,. carnall fecuritie, and rebellion unto the · Lu~t 12..49· Matb. 1 o. 34• LIJk,t n. 51o Jfa.43-·18t Lawes of God. Hence it is,tha-t our Saviour tells us in t'he Gofpel, that he cime n;t to fend:Peace inte· the Earth; bur rather,.Fire,Debare,and the Sword: that is, Wherefoever his Word is publifhed . powerfully, and confcionably;with fruit and ef- , tea upon tbe foules of his elca; there, by acci- . dent (as they fay) it ftirres up much r:ageand bit- . ter oppo-fitipn again£1: Gods children. For, as there is no true inward peace unto the wicked; ' fo,in this \'Vor!d, there is no outward peace unto the righteous: but commonly tbey are ftill ex– ercifed with one croffe and temptation,orother;. c~therthe D~vill, or_wic.ked men, ~re .frill plot– tmg or prathftngmt~chtefe and m1fene againfr them.. ' The-~ofpcris But you mutl: conceive, that tnedifquietneffes . , 110ttbe c;IUfe and troubleS that afife at. thepreaching of. the- · of troubles,, but mc~s cor· Word, are not eau fed by it, but by mens corrup- · ruptions. I tions. Woul~anyman thinke,_that Sa-int Paul» or j
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