456 Bleffed are they that make peace betweenman and man. to have pure aimes, he need come with a pure heart, to have puré aims at God and his glory and at publick good :And then fay it is an evidence of much grace in the heart, and there- fore he is bleffed, he is 'a bletled man that carryes this wifely, and prudently and graciously. And then blefled, Becautè by this means he shall prevent abundance of evil, O the woful evils that doe proced from jars and divifions, from National divifions, from Sea- divifions, Church-divifions, Family-divifions, Perfonal- divifions, divi- fions between neighbour and neighbour ( and the like) I had thought to have Token a few words to all of them ; O the a- boundance of fin that is committed in the time of division : There were many great fins committed among the peopleof God in former times,but I am verily perfwaded there was ne ver in any thirty yearsfince the Gofpel was known in England, fo much fins among Godly people as there hath been there latt three years, the people of God have more defil'd theta -- -felves by finful dittempers in there laut three years then ever they were defil'd in any, thirty fine the Gofpel was known in England: As in a family,fcmetimes there is more fin commit - ted in one hour where there are brawles and contentions and írìfe, therrin another family in a whole twelve month, yea, verily beleeve fometimes in come perfons, force One man put into a paffionate fit, into a way of contendingwith òthers;doth fometimes commit more fin in one hour when he is in a pailì- _onate fir, then at another time in a whole quarter of a year, he may reckon that hour an hour that contraas more. guiltineffe, then I fay all the fins that he commits fometimes in a quarter of a year befides : I fear that many of you may find this by ex- perience, as we read of /Wefts, Pt hen he came down frcn the Mawr he brake the two cables, when he was in a fit of anger, but that was holy anger,it was for God;Truly fo it is,many men ,and women, in the ht of a finful anger breaks both, the Tables, all the ten Commandements in one fit,ô there's aboundance of evil of fin that is committed by divifions : The Apoftle fames faith, That .wherezhere is firsfe and anger, and debate, there's every
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