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Peace-mclZing
a
d,feratt
work,
fcarce anyone
thing wherein
a
Minilfer is more put
to it,
to
fie
-vv
the
wudotre
and
the
meekn,efs and
the Spirit of
Chriff,
then'when
hemeddles
with
this
argument
at
fuch
a
time
as
this is, very difficult
it
is, becaufe
mens
hearts are
fo
impure,
fuch
filth
and uncleanefic
is
upon
the fpirits of men,
and
to
make peace with
theta,
how should one go
about
it;
--
diffi-
cult
it
is, becaufe
there's
no man almolf in
the
world
can be
brought to
judge
himfelf
as any
cantle
of
want
of
peace
among
others;
If
all
the people
in
England
were together,
and
you
should
go from one
to
another
and ask,
what are
you any caufe
of
the
divifions
that
are in England, he would
profefle
againff
it
:
Ask
every
man and
he
would
difavow
it;
God
forbid
that
I
fhould
have
any
hand in
breaches and
divifions, one
party
-cafls
it
upon
another,and the other cabs it
upon them-
againe,
all cry for
peace,
and many
times even thole that
cry much
for
it,
are
the great
hindrances of
it,
yea cry
after
it
in
filch
a
manner
as
do
very much hinder
it
when
they are
fpeaking
a-
but
it:-
--It's
very
difficult
to
medie
with
this,
becaufe
a
man
cannot
tel
how
to
come
to thepraelical part of this,but
he
muff
intrench
upon
one fide
or
other,
he
muff
bring
fome
to
yeeld
fomething,it's itrpolfible there
should be
any
peace between
any
two
that
are fallen
out, ifthere
be no
yeelding
on
either
fide.
The
Spaniards have
a
Proverb,
,That
Stone
and
Morter
-
makes
a
wall,
becaufe one
yeelds, but two hard
things will
not;
Now
becaufe
it's
fo
hard for
any
to
yeeld to another, therefore
its
hard for
any
to
meddle
with the point of
peace,
yea; its
more
difficult
now
then ever,becaufe we
find all
forts
of
men
that
are
the
greater
means
of
divifion and
contention,yet
they
will all plead
the National Covenant, that
was
a'Coven:ant
for
union,they
will all
plead
it
for
their parties,and for
the
fomen-
ting
and
maintaining of
dif
-union
:
It
is juf+
here
as
it
fals
out
in
the point
of
the
Sacrament,
that's
appointedby
God"to
be
the
means
of
union
in
the
Churches,
it
is
therefore
called the
Communion;
It's
-an
Ordinance
for
the
union
of the
Churches,
'and
through
mans
corruption,
there's
nothing that ever hath
been
occafion
of
fo
much
dif
-
unions
as
the
Sacrament bath
been.
And
"fo
even our
Covenant,
though certainly intcndad:for
uni-
on,