I • VlllS.I7· of your Country; if you would not be noted with Jw:h a black coal, mohifie your vile affeCl:ions. We learn hence alfo, That Reli.. I gion is afric~nd to civll Peace; it firiketh not only at diforder in the ;, life,but lufis in the heart,at envy and pride,the privy roots ofcontention : Why fhould the world hate it ? It reprefenteth aGod, Wh1 istheG~dofPeace,ttnd.notbfconfufion, I c.r.I4. 33· Itholdeth forth a Gofpd that is the Gofjel ofPe~tce,AEls to.36.... It efiablilh,;,. eth a Wifdom which prefcribethall ways of Peace, Heb. u.r.f. Rom.tz.t8. It increafeth the number of the godly, who do beft in any community; mortified fpirits are moO: peaceable: Pride, envy~ · felf-feeking,hurry others into confufions, and they thakc: all to fcrve their own tufts and interefis. Obfl :. Through confujion And c~ntention ever) evil 'Work..AktJNntlerv• 2 ' eth: Wickeanefs then taketh heart and courage,and acteth withouc re~aim. This day is this Scripture fulfilled b_eforc: our eyes; we need no other Comment but our own c:xpcraence : Envy maketh us quarrel one with another, and quarrding openeth a gap to all ' looft:nefs. Never had the Devil fuch an Ha~vefr in EnglAnd as fince thefe nnh~pydifferences ; one party debauching the .Country with vice, another poyfoning it with error. Chrift bath got fome ground·indeed ; but when~all the dregs o~th~War be purged out? Thus ufually -it is, in t~e midft of contentions L~ws are filent, ·Reli– gion lofeth its awe,and then men do what is ri~ht in their own eyes. · There cannot beabetter .t\rgument then Experience to make us fee the benefit of publique Order and Peace. Verfe 17. But the "Wifdom thAt isfrom 14hove, isfirflpure, tlm• pea~eable,gentle·""deafie ttJ be entreateel,futl 1[mer• cy, 1111dgtJfld fruiu, without partilllity,-•nd withtJut hJp~Cri{ie. He cometh now to reckon -up the fruits of truewifdom : He calleth it the wi( um that is from ~~~ove; becaufe,as I faid beforc:,aU wifdom is knowri by its defcent : He giveth it feveral properties, , t hey will be befi explained in the Ob!ervations. , obferv. I . I. TrNe Wi{dom is. pure' ~~~d ho!J wifd(}m : ~')'Yit; The WC?rd \ 1 D H~tmm nd which w.e tranflate pure, figmfieth chafle, ·m1d.ejf.. PThere ts a . z~raa. Cat~ in double Purity; fuch as excludethmixture ; fo we fay pure wine, Mat 5a when •cis not fophifticated and imblfc:d ; and fuch as cxcludeth fi/. . - thir~t/1 ,·
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