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Why

Peace

-mars

(hall.

be

called

the children of

God,

483

mournkor

them,

but

let

not

them

difturb

my

peace

;

O

o

y

kale

rettorne onto

thy

re,

I

and

that that fatislies me

:

and

fo

thefe

will

be very

peaceable towards

others,

and

therefore

this is

joynedto

the

peace makers,

they (hall

be

called

the chrl-

ilrenof

God,

that

is, they shall

be

fo, and fo

accounted.

And

they

1ha11

be

fo

accounted,

that

is a

higher

degree, it's

agreatblefling

to

be

a

child of

God, that

you will all

fay,

though

the world fhould

think

you

the child

of

the Devil,

and

call

you

Devil!,

though

they fhould deal with

you

as

they

did

with Sohn

Hatff

e, they

pictured Devils

upon his

coat when

he

went to Martyrdonle, as

if he

were conic out

of

hell,

I

but he

was

the

Son

of Gott

for

alt

that

:

Chrift

himfelf he

was

nor

al-

wayes

called

the

child

of

God,

but he

was

called

Belz,ebub,anei

the

'prince

of

Devils

:

But

it

is

fume

addition

to

this

bleffed-

nefle

here,

that

they are called

fo

:

that is, that

they

have fuch

a

promife fromChri{t,

as

not

only

to be the

children of

God,

but

they

shall

be

fo

in

the very

hearts and confciences

of the

men

among whom

they

live:

Peace

-

making

is fo

convincing,

'there

is fo

much beauty and excellency in

it,

as

will convince

almoft

any

man,

peacemaking

hath fuch

a

convincing

power,

as

that men that

are wicked

thernfelva,14

yet

they thall be for

-

ced

in

their

confciences

to beleeve,

ly

theCe

peo?le,Thefe

men

and women are no

other then the children

dhem

od-

You

the

Spirit

of

,god that

a&s

them

and

may

plainly fee

that

peace

making

is

very convincing,

becauf

no man

or

woman

will

own

to

have any hand

in

breaking

and

ask

peace,

as

I

remember

T

told

you,

that if

we should

go

the men

in En;land

from one

to

another, what

do

you

hin-

der

our

peace

?

there's never

a

man

or woman

would

own

ir,

and

yet

there

are

many

guilty

certainly.Well,as that's

fo

foul

to break peace,that

none

will own

it,fo to

make

peace

is

fo

ex-

cellent,

that every body

is

in love withall

,

though men and

women

that

have

perverfe

and

crooked fpirits

of

theirown,

fo

that

they cannot bring

their

hearts

to

be

peaceable with

other,

yet they

can

love

it

where

they

fee

it

in

others,

and

efpecially

when

they fee

risen

to be

of

peaceable

l2difpofitions

in

thin

;e