Peace-rrla0ng a difficaslt work 453 wasever your hearts taken with that great work above all things in the world, and your fpirits railed in admiring and worshipping of God and of jefts Chrif }, thar great peace-ma- ker : J ief ng and magnif jing andpra: fing the name of God, and blejfnç C'hrìjthis Son; who -was God blejjed for ever:, for this great work of his in making peace between your foules and God ? It would he one good, argument that Chrif} bath been a peace -maker for your fouls if you have had your hearts fo affeoted : But if there be nothing in this wórk of Chrift in making peace between man and God, but you only give it the hearing, and let the great mii}ery of Godlineffe to the Gof'el paffe lightly away; when you hear it and your hearts never taken with it, it is.much to be feared, Nay, it may he conclu- ded as a certain truth, that to this day yet peace is not made between your fouls and God, what his blood may do,What the effe6tsof it afterwards may -be, we kno\v not, but yet. it bath not this gracious effect upon you : But nowwe conic un:o the fecond thing. .l of ed are the peace- makers. Peace - makers between man and man, they are bleffed, as for this point I confeffe I intended to fpeak but very little of it at this time, nor out of this Scripture; for in another place, many Sermons I have preached about the point of heart divi- fions, and almoft every head that's needful about this point, there I handled, namely the evil of divifions, --- The caufes of them : Md the means how to heal them, and therefore thought to have pat very briefly over this, But yet be- caufe many there are that either not heard, or have not ufe of thofe things for the préfenr, and becauCe of the necefflty of the Point, 'I íhall fpeak a little about peace - making between man and man. This work is a very delightful work to meddle in, in there times efpecially, to meddle with the point of peace between man and "man, its one of the difficulteft arguments that any Minifter can fpeak of in fuck times as thefe : Md the r 's
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