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Rules
or
peace between
man and man.
Sixthly,
If
you
find
peace be
hard
to
naake,purfue
it;purfucs
peace
and
try
one means
after
another
:
Let
it
not
be fuflïci-
eru
for you
ito
fa
y, well
God
knows
I
would
fain
be at peace,
and
i
have ufed means to
be at
peace,
I
have
made fair
offers,
welt, but
hath no!
that done the
work
that
you
delire
?
fallto
it
again and again.
Try more
conclufions,
whatfoever
the
heart
or
a
man
is
in,
and
fet upon, he
will
try
all
the
conclufions
that
he can for
the
effec.ling
of
it,if
your
hearts be fet
upon
peace,
though
you have
a
relulCe
the
firf}
and
fecond
time
You
wi!
on
again
:
The Scripture bids
us purfue
peace,and
follow
peace, and
mark
my
Text.
Pipet
are
the peace-mal',erf,
he doth not
fav,
blef
ed
are the peace -wi
fhers. Some
men
have good
affeOtions,
and
fay,,
I
would there
were peace,
and
it
may
be they ufe
force Light indeavours,
as
for
my
part
I
have
done fomething
for
peace,
I but
is
the
thing
effeeled,
haft thou
made peace
?
Thou fhould'fI never
be
at
ref+
til
thou haft
made
it,if
there
be
any means in.
the.worid uncryed, try
what
that
meanes will
do
Seventhly,
Further
if
after
all
the
means
ufed
that
you
can,
you
do not find
it
come,,
but
fill! men will be
of contentious
fpirits, then obferyethis
rule,
However
for
thine own part
re-
folve
to
walk
before
fuch in
a
convincing way,
they
are
of
troublefome fpirits,
and
tea
every word
you
fpeak, you
9n-
not
meddle but
you foul your
fingers,
yet
for
all
this,
break'o'f
with this refolution,
I
fay,
I
will
doe
what
I
can
to
convince
them
in
a
conf}ant way
of
good,
of
holinefle and
juflice,
and
righkeoufiaefs,
if
it
may
be,I
will
heap
coals
of
fire.
upon
their
head!,
and
melt their
hearts that way,I
am
refolved whatfoever
evil they
do
to me, Ile
doe good
to
them:
As
Calvin
fail
con-
cerning
Luther, Luther
was
of
a
violent
hot
fpirit,
Tk'ell
(faith
Calvin)
let
Luther call rnea Devit,let
him
callme-what
he will,
I
will acknowledge
Luther
to
he
a
precious
fervant
of
God, whom
God
loth
xfe
as
an inflrument
of
great
good
;
Here's
a
peaceable
fpirit,
this
is
the
way
to
make
peace,
when
the
means have
been
tryed
and
yet it
cannot
be
done,
mens fpirits
will
no be
quieted,
yet
walk convincingly
before them,and
a
convincing
-
ccnVerfation in
a
few months
it
may
be,
but
what
if
it
be years,
will