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A42051	Omilia eiréniké, or, A thanksgiving sermon for peace abroad with motives to unity at home, especially in matters of religion : preach'd at Hambleden in the county of Bucks on Thursday the second day of December, 1697 / by Francis Gregory ...	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1697 (1697)	Wing G1897; ESTC R39481	9,967	28

this Colour or that the Scriptures do not tell us Again in what particular Place and at what particular Hour we must meet to Worship God whether the Preacher must sit or stand whether the Lord's Supper should be Administred in the Church or in the Chancel the Scriptures do no where teach us no these and the like indifferent Circumstances must to prevent Disorders be determined by the Piety and Prudence of our Church Governours and when once they in order to Decency Uniformity and the more solemn Administration of our Divine Worship have upon mature Advice and Deliberation prescribed us such Rules as are no way contrary to the Word of God by the same Word do we all stand obliged in Conscience to obey them and were this generally done our Disputes and Quarrel about our Ceremonies which are but few and innocent would be at an end But so long as we think our selves either more Knowing or more Conscientious than our Rulers while we refuse to submit to their Determinations about things indifferent and thereupon break and crumble out selves into many Factions and Parties we do by these Divisions exceedingly Gratify our Adversaries of Rome And whilst we pretend to abhor their Religion we do indeed give very great Advantages to it for when once Men separate from our Publick Assemblies and meet in Private Conventicles 't is well known that Priests and Jesuits under a Disguise creep in amongst them and by degrees instill their Poisonous Doctrines into the Minds of Unwary and Credulous Men. Let me therefore Exhort and Prevail with you to do what St. Paul or rather God by St. Paul requires Obey them that have the Rule over you and Submit your selves And again Be of one mind live in Peace And yet again Endeavour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace 't is that which our Religion and Duty requires Yea and so doth our very Interest too Thirdly Since it hath been die good Pleasure of God to Bless us at present with a Civil Peace both at Home and Abroad let us so behave our selves both to our God and our King to our God as the Author and to our King as the Instrument of our Peace that this Peace may be still continued to us and our Posterity without any Interruption The Interests of a King as the Head and of the Subjects as the Body Politick are so interwoven and twisted together that a Breach between them may prove Fatal to both but still when Kings and Subjects break with Heaven that 's Infinitely worse For as there is no Friend so there is no Enemy so considerable as God And what is it that makes this God an Enemy to any Nation but those Epidemical Sins that overspread it And verily if we of this Kingdom shall still persist in our Vicious Courses our present Peace cannot long secure us for if we break our repeated Covenants with God he can easily incline our Enemies to break their Covenants with us That which Moses told the Wicked Jews doth as much concern sinful Christians too The Lord shall bring a Nation against thee whose Tongue thou shalt not understand a Nation of fierce Countenance which shall not regard the person of the old nor shew favour to the young and he shall eat the fruit of thy Cattle and the fruit of thy Land until thou be destroyed An Invading and Conquering Enemy doth God here threaten to raise against a Wicked Nation But on the other hand if a Nation prove Religious and Holy what the Event is like to be we may learn from Solomon who saith When a Man's ways please the Lord he maketh even his Enemies to be at peace with him What is here said of a Particular Person is as true of a whole Nation to please our God by a Pious and Vertuous Conversation is the only sure way to obtain and continue Peace with Men. And that a firm Peace may be for ever Established in all Christian Churches throughout the whole World let us all heartily join in that Charitable Petition which our Excellent Liturgy hath put into our Mouths namely this Grant O Lord that all they who do confess thy Holy Name may agree in the Truth of thy holy Word and live in Unity and Godly Love Let us also pray more particularly for our own Jerusalem our own Church and Kingdom as our Royal Psalmist did for his in the Words of my Text Peace be within thy Walls and Prosperity or Plenteousness within thy Palaces FINIS Books Printed for Richard Sare at Grays-Inn-Gate in Holborn DR Gregory's Divine Antidote against Socinianism 8 o The Fables of Esop with Morals and Reflections Folio Erasmus's Colloquies Octavo Quivedo's Visions 8 o. The three last by Sir Roger L'Estrange The Genuine Epistles of St. Barnabas St Ignatius St. Clement St. Polycarp the Shepherd of Hermas c. A Practical Discourse against Swearing 8 o. The Authority of Christian Princes over Ecclesiastical Synods in Answer to a Letter to a Convocation-Man 8 o. Sermons on several Occasions 4 o. These by Dr. Wake Epictetus's Morals with Simplicius's Comment 8 o. A Sermon Preach'd upon the Death of the Queen A Sermon at the Commencement at Cambridge A Sermon on the Death of Dr. Towerson These four by Dr. George Stanhope The Doctrine of a God and Providence Vindicated and Asserted 8 o. Discourses on several Divine Subjects 8 o. These two by Thomas Gregory Lecturer of Fulham Essays upon several Moral Subjects In Two Parts By Jeremiah Coslier M. A. 8 o. Compleat Sets consisting of Eight Volumes of Letters writ by a Turkish Spy who lived 45 Years at Paris undiscovered giving an Account of the Principal Affairs of Europe 12 o. Moral Maxims and Reflections Written in French by the Duke of Rochfoncault now Englished 12 o. Of the Art both of Writing and Judging of History with Reflections upon Ancient as well as Modern Historians By Father Le Moyne 12 o. An Essy upon Reason by Sir George Mackenzie 12 o. Death made Comfortable or the way to Dye well By John Kettlewel 12 o. The Parsons Councellor or the Law of Tythes By Sir Simon Degg 8 o. The Unlawfulness of Bonds of Resignation 8 o. Price 6. d. An Answer to all the Excuses and Pretences which Men ordinarily make for their not coming to the Holy Sacrament 8 o. Price 3 d. By a Divine of the Church of England Remarks on a Book Entituled Prince Arthur an Heroick Poem By Mr. Dennis 8 o. An Appendix to Dr. Pope's Life of Bishop Ward 8 o. Price 6 d. A Gentleman's Religion in three Parts the first contains the Principles of natural Religion The Second and Third the Doctrins of Christianity both as to matters of Faith and Practise 12 o. Fortune in her Wit 's or the Hour of all Men. By Don Franciso de Quivedo Author of the Visions of Hell Translated by Capt. John Stevens 8 o. Humane Prudence or the Art by which a Man may raise Himself and Fortune to Grandeur The 7 th Edition 12 o. Luke 12.53 Matth. 12.25 Or 34. Eph. 2.19 Gen. 13.8 Gen. 45.24 Luke 10.6 Mark 9 5● Rom. 12.18 1 Cor. 11.18 1 Cor. 3.4 1 Cor. 1.12 1 Cor. 3.3 Psal 46.9 Isa 2.4 Isa 45.7 Acts 4.32 Acts 2.44 46. Judg. 5.15 Heb. 13.17 2 Cor. 13.11 Eph. 4.4 Deut. 28.49 Prov. 16.7