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Rules
for
peace
betalec.,s
man
and
roan,
463
fpirits,
that
if
any
one
doe
difpleafe
them,they doe-not
fatistie
theinelves
in oppoung
the perfon that
Both
it,
or
the
thing
that
is
un
ulí,
but they
will
fly
out againff
all
men
that
have
but
any
kinde
of
correfpondency with
such
that are of the
way
that they are
of
;
And will
not
onely oppofe
them that doe
dif-
pleafe
them,
in
the thing wherein they are difpleafed,
bux
in
all
things
elfe.
O
this
is
an
unpeaceable
fpirit
;
as
we
read
of
Haman, when Mordecai had
difpleafed him,
he
did
not
think
it enough
to proceed
againft
Mordecai's
perfon, but againa
all
the
people
of the
fe,xes, his
heart
was
againf+
them
all. And
thus
it
is
withmany,
if
they
be but angered with
any one
that
is
in filch a
way
different
from
i
others, they
will
prefently fall
upon
all
that
are
of that
way.
It
was
juif
the Prelaticall
way
in
former
times,
if
any
that
Were
called
a
Puritan did but
an-
,er
thei
they would
fall
upon
all
that
went on
in
that way,
and
cry
out
of
them
all ,
and
if they were difpleafed
in
one
thing,
they
would feeke
to
revenge themfelves
all
the
wiyyés.
they
could,
in oppofing
of them
in all
other things.
Nov
this
isa
way
4f
turbulency,
and
not
the
way
of peace.
That's the
fecond
rule;
when violence
is
to
be
ufed, yet let
it
extend
no
further
<
either
-in
regard
of
the meafure,
or
the
fubjec
)
then
needs
mufti;
:
Such
a one
bath
don§ámille
,
why
I
will
deale
with
him in
his
perfon,
and
deale with hiimabout
that
particular
thing
wherein
he path
done
amide.
It's
a
very ufu-
all thing
in
neighbours.,.if one
be but aná ,ry,with one
in
a
F
a-
mily,they are
prefently
atagery
with
all in
the
Family;
nd this
caufes
a
greatdeale of
divifion
;
fo
likewife
in
a
Towne,
a.
Church,
or
Common-wealth:.
But
thefe Rules are
in
Geneá
rill.
Thirdly
,
If
you
would
have
peace
in
the world,
you
muff
refolve
before-hand
to
be
willing that it
fhould
cofL
you
fome-
thing;
Every man
would
faine have peace
:
When.we
fpealr
of
peace,faith
Auftin
in his
Comment
upon
the Pfalres;,all.;nan-
kind
defires
it prefently When
you
(peak
of peace,
with one
mouth,
O
I,defare
it,
I
would
with
it, I
would
-have
it
:
every
one
would fainehave
peace, but
men-
and women
are
loth
that
it
should
cof}
them
any
thing,what's
-themeznia