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Peace-
ma&ina
a
d.Ocult
York,
on,
yet through
mans
corruption
if
heed be not taken,as
it
bath
been
made ufe of,fo
maybe further,for
as
great breaches
as
can
be
;
Now to come
as
it were between parties that
are
at vari-
ance
and
divifion,
0
how
fhould
a
mm
behave him
felfe,truly,
thinking
of
it
at
firs}, .I
was
almofl diîcouraged
to
Beak
any
word
about
ir,
becaufe
of the indifpoftion
of
men;
hearts at
this
time for
peace
;
The Prophet
Hafea faith
(Hof:
7.
7.)
that
the-people
were hot
as
an
Oven
:
The
meaning
is
this,
That
the people
had
their
hearts
fo
fet upon that
way and
courte
which
they were
in,
that
what
ever the
Prophet
fpeke
to
them
it
was in
vain
:
As
if
a
man should
throw
a
few slick.
into an
Oven when
it
was
red hot,
they are devoured
prefent-
ly
and
confumed into afhes
;
As
if the Prophet
fhoul
l
fay, all
my
fpeech
to themhath
no
more effe&, and
there
appears
on
more
of what
I
fay
to
them,
then
there
will
appear
of
a
little.,
ffraw
that
is
call
into
a
hot Oven: And
truly
my
Brethren,
are
notmens hearts
heated
in
their
way
of divifions,
form
in one
way
and fome in
another,
and feem
to
be
refolute,
and
even
fet
on fire
almofl at this
time, that
what
is
faìd
to them
is as
prefently
devout
ed and
comes
to
nothing,
as
I
fay,
a
little
fraw
or Hubble in
a
hot
Oven,
and
therefore
like
to
be
as
un:-
profitable
at
fuch
a
time
as
this,
as any
thing, though nothing
more
needful
:
But though
it
may
be
fo
impro` table, yet
be-
caufe
there
is fo
much
bleffedneife
in
it,
I
(hall
addrefle
my
felt
to
fpeak
a
little:
It's
a
bleffed thing
to
be
a
peace
-
maker,
now
certaiiaely
thofe that
can
carry
it
wel, thew that they
have
a.
gracious
temper of heart,
and
therefore
are
bleffed,
it
dotb
argue a
very gracious
ancl,
holy
fpirirualtemper
of
heart to
be
a
,
peace
-maker
between
man and man,
if it
be done
in
a
fpiritual
way,
for
fpiritual ends
:
That
man
that
would
meddle
in
point
of
peace
with
others,
he
had
need
have all
wel
between
God-,
and
his own
foul
firfl
And
had need be
of
a
very peaceable
difpofition hit
afelf,for
'any
One
thlit'is"
of
a
froward
or
turbulent
difpofition
himfelfe, if he fhould come
to
talke
of peace,
and
cry
out
oÈ-
divifions, every one
would,
be_
ready
to
fly
in his
facer
He
need
have much feif-
denyal
not
at'
all
to
took
at
hitnfelfe,
at
his
own
party anyway in refpe&
to
himfelfe, but
to
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