Bleff èd ára thipbttt;"ake pease ictrpeert i}zan;aïrtl man. 461 -tent himfelfé;tctlive at the Court;and have all kind,of pleafure .:and delight there, bud he would lnterc(t hin'felfe in the fai- lings out of his Brethren, fo as if çoliibly he could to.fer them f;ataaeagaine,, The holy Glo(l remembers this m after. ages ; Then fomewhat is co be Laid about this of making, and' keeping peace between then arnd men it is not blèd are `r-hofèrthat are at peace with fin, or leek to make peace with coons fins and corruptions; But peace makers, that make peace between -Brethren and Brethren,Neighbour and Neighbour ; for though -we fhould labour to he at peace, with all men as much as poli _bly we can, yet we mutt not fo much as endeavotir., nor dcfr,e ;to beat peacewith any fm ; Though God were insnirely wil- I.ing and defirous to reconcile the world to hiinle , yet.; would never,reconcile fin, God and fin cannever be reconci- .led,God and the leeft fin cannot,: All the Angelis in heaven andmen upon earth, can never, reconcile God and iin. Yea what ever Chrift did, as it was not intended by, him,fo it could never reconcile God and fin together ; but God would re- maim to be an eternal! enemy to fin, and that's the Glory- of .God. Sbwl?er we are endeavouring to make peace, we mutt not think 'to'make peace with mens corruptions, with mens fns; we. mull not fo love peace as to !wallow it wrapt upavith the dirt of g iliMetre, and of fin, not fo as to Tooth and hu- mor mens corruptions.Certainly,there is n -> blef edneiie here, but a curfe. But yet thus farre, though we ought never to be at peace with mens fins, yet we may forbare merrtbaugh finfull, we may-forbare finners,yea and when we come to oppofe their fins, we mull oppofe them only with thofe weapons that God bath appointed. The Magiflrate in his place, and xhe Church . in it's place mutt oppofe fin. There may be a great dealt of turbulency of fpirit more then allowes in men, in oopo- fing mens ditlempers and corruptions ; But that that we are' now fpeaking of is. peace between man and man. -- I Ihall therefore firfl labour to +ro Bound forne generali Rules of peace between man and man ; - Secondly, fore more fpeciall,Rules in reference- unto Family peace, Thirdly, fome Rules in reference unto neighbourly peace.; And
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