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When
a maki
teaceadleneJJ'
manif
ef?s
him
a
child
of
Gód.
feeke
revenge,
and
to
make
others that
have
wronged me
to
know
that they
have wronged
me. But
dirt
I might
prevent
fin,
and
bring honour
to the Name of
God,
mine owne ends
!hall
lie by., and
I
will rather
put up
wrongs,
and
walk
peaceably
with men,
and
leek
to
endeavour
it
wrh
others too.
This
is
fuck
a
peaceable
fpiric
that
argues him
to
be
a,
child
of
,Lod,
that
aimes
at
God;
and
denycs himfelfe.
Some
men
would
be peaceable when
it
may
Serve
for
their
owne
ends;
but now
to be
peaceable.
ones
felfe,
and
to
make
peace with
others,
and
I
!hall get nothing
by
ìt,
but I
account
my
good
to
be
inwrapt in
the Glory
of
God
,
and fo
I
make
peace
be.-
caul I
would
not
have
the
name of
God to
fuller
;
here's
a
peace
-maker that
(all
be
called
a
child
of
God.
Thirdly,
And
then further,
fuch
a
kind
of
peace
maker
as
God
himfelfe
:
As we find
recorded
in
Scripture
is
attribu-
ted
to God, To
make
peace
as
God doth.
As thus
;
Firfi, God
he
is
willing to
be
at peace with
thole
that are unworthy.
Yea fecondly, To
thole
that
have
wronged
him; 'Tis
not
enough
to
fay
they
have
wronged
me,
and
they
are unworthy,
yet
you
fhould
labour for peace with
them;
For
God
caul-es
.his-Son to (hi
eupon
the tniniP
as
well
as
upon
the
jult
;
and
we
are commanded
to
love onr
enemies,
that
thereby
We
may lie
declared
to
be
the
Sons of
God.
Thiiidly,
God
he
'begins
the
work
of peace
;
If
God
fhould
not
have
begun
the
work
-of
Reronciiiatidn between
Man
and
liinàfelfe;
what had become of
us "cli
?
Now
thofe
that
would
'be
fuch
Iaeace-
makers,
as
to
evidence
that
they are
the chil-
-dren of
God
,
they fhould
not Hind
thus and fay, He
bath
'wronged
me,
let
him.
yedld
firft ;
No,
if God
had (aid
fo,
what
had:become of
us
?
but
God)yeelds''f rll
:
O tow
be
you
a
Child
of
God
in
this,
to
labour for
peace'
as
God
loth,
and
b
bin tirfi with -them,
if they
-will
not begin with
you
according
to
them,
duty, yet
doe
you
begin with
them,
as
a
child of
God ought to
would ^belike
unto his
Father
i
:.
-it
>'
And