Bleffed are they that male peace letween! man and man. 457 every evil worke, ames 3.16. 0 my Brethren,, this it is that makes the Devil lò foment our divifions, becat.fe he fees that there is foantch fn committed, what rayling and reviling, what hatred, what brawling, what fins in thoughr,plotting,con- triving, counfelling, and what fins in ord,what fins in a6 ions are where there is (¡rife and envie, nothing but labouring co mifchiefe one another what potfbly they can ;The Devil looks at the fin, and aimes at that ; It's not fo much the div ifioia that the Devil fo much cares for as the fin that is committed by it As fometirttes I have made ufe of a finiilitude that Auftin bath, faith he, when a ì-owler goes to catch fowl, he for his net on the other fide of the hedge, and then he takes flosses andflings into the hedge, why he Both not expect to kill the bird by his onas, but to make a di(iurbance, and to caufe the bird to flye out, and hopes that he ¡hall catch the bird in the net, that is on the other fide of the hedge, that's that which he aimes at; fo faith he it is, when the Devil would make divifions and (sirs, he tempts men as it were to throw flones one at another, and firs up (+rife one againft another, and mattes a great deale of fir, but that the devil aimes at is the net on the other fide Qf the hedge, he fees that this will be the occalfon of aboundarace of fin, there will be bittetne¡le of fpiric and wrath, and there will be wicked words and actions; and fo he (hall catch peon fouls,.when you are tempted to a fir of paflion, know then the Devil expects a great deal of fin that will follow : Now ble fed are the peace -makers for they are the meanes to prevent abun- dance of fn, and that's a molt blefled-thing, what ble(fed work can a man be more blefled in then to be a means to prevent fin,' it's a blefied thing to prevent any one fin, but to be an in- (ltument to prevent fo muchfin, that mull needs be ble(íed: - -' Iíleff ed'are the peace -makers, for they are 'infruments of a- boundance of good likewife, all things flonrilla where there's peace, Spiritual things flourith where. there's peace . little things grow to a great height where there's peace; O Blc]]èd are the peace - makers, they are the caufe of much good : To (hewboth the evil of the want of it, and the good that is in peace, either of thefe would be a large point, and i having ' N n n done
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