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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27175	The terms of peace and reconciliation betwixt all divided parties a sermon preach'd at the assizes held for the county of Buckingham, at the town of Wicomb, July the I, 1684 / by Luke Beaulieu ...	Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723.	1684 (1684)	Wing B1579; ESTC R23006	19,365	38

The TERMS of PEACE and RECONCILIATION Betwixt all Divided Parties A SERMON PREACH'D at the ASSIZES HELD FOR THE COUNTY of BVCKINGHAM AT THE TOWN of WICOMB JVLY the 1. 1684. By LVKE BEAVLIEV Divinity-Reader of His Majesties Chappel-Royal at Windsor and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Sir George Jeffreys Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. LONDON Printed for Charles Brome at the Gun at the West-end of St. Pauls Church-Yard 1684. A PREFACE TO THE READER 'T Was the desire of Sir Denys Hampson High Sheriff of the County of Buckingham that I should Preach and Print the ensuing Sermon wherein I very plainly acquainted the Honourable Audience that heard it with my thoughts of a Sacred Text and a Christian Duty Likely that worthy Gentleman judg'd it might be somewhat useful to promote in others that affectionate Loyalty wherein he is so Eminent and so Exemplary And I design it should being fully convinc'd that an humble Obedience and a hearty Love to the King is under our duty to God the best and strongest Link to joyn us together in that Peace I here recommend Recommend it indeed I may Curats of Souls can do no more the honour of the Success is due to the Divine Grace and to the Care and Vigilance of Civil Magistrates They are the true and the most persuasive Preachers of the Publick Peace for their Words have a strong efficacy by that Power and Interest which they have in the World And now as the Case lies People want more to be Govern'd than to be Instructed for what concerns their faithfulness and submission to their Rulers More hath been said for Loyalty within these last Hundred Years by the Clergy of this Church than can be found in all former Ages united together The Jesuites and the Sectaries made it necessary by all sorts of Arguments and Reasons to assert and press that Duty which Natural and Christian Religion had fully taught our Fore-fathers Now the matter is Exhausted and where Demonstration and Exhortations can't prevail Authority must work They that will not be persuaded to be peaceable and good Subjects must be Chastis'd and restrained by Laws and Magistrates If they that are trusted with the administration of Publick Justice have courage and honesty enough to be Impartial we see thanks be to God that they can better work on turbulent Spirits then the best of Books or Sermons which are neither heard nor heeded by them that love and abett Contentions True Religion alone makes them Obedient and Peaceable that are the true Sons of the Church Others must be dealt with by Fear and Government Such Magistrates as have so stout and strong a Zeal for their Prince and Country as to encourage Loyalty and to proceed as far as the Law goeth against ungovernable and seditious Spirits will make more Proselytes than all our Discourses and Persuasions can do So that I say under the Divine Providence the success of all endeavours for Peace is due to them that are in places of Authority and earnestly use their power for reducing all Men to Peace and Obedience Not that I would make Clergymen give over exhorting the People to live in Peace and Christian Subjection 't is their indispensable Duty and part of their Office as Saint Paul appointed Tit. 3.1 Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good Work to speak evil of no Man to be no brawlers but gentle shewing all meekness unto all men Neither do I count their labour in this to be vain and to no purpose Though scoffers and prophane and foolish men deride Religion yet it will ever have a very great influence upon the Affairs of this World There is by our very Nature a Sense of it imprest upon the minds of men and they are often led even to desperate attempts by the meer shew or the pretence of it So we found it by woful experience in the late Rebellion And since the last Critical times made it too manifest that Clamours about Religion could soon enflame the Multitude By them our Schismatical Guides had dispos'd their party ready once more to fight out the Lords Battels and the major part of the People might have been hurried on to very unchristian and mischievous Enterprizes had our Clergy either incited them or but let them alone without restraining them with the sense of the fear of God and other proper Arguments 'T is true the same Clergy were more earnest in preaching against Popery after the sudden affrightment which the news of a Popish Plot brought upon the Nation But that was no derogation to their Peaceableness and their most faithful Allegiance and it became them so to do persuaded as they are that dangerous Innovations and Errors have been brought by the Church of Rome in the Christian Doctrine and Worship Knowing withal that the Bishop of that Church claims a Jurisdiction over all Kings and all Christians and hath condemn'd them as Rebels that will not submit to his Yoke This makes it their duty at some times to instruct their Charge in the principal points of the Controversie and to alledg their reasons why the Communion of our Church is much to be prefer'd to that of Rome And the discovery of a Popish design for our Ruine attested as it was by the highest Authority of this Realm made it seasonable and very requisit no be more earnest at that time against Roman Errors and Encroachments We know that all the Dissenters who make us Popishly affected would blast our Credit with the People And then the duties of Loyal and quiet subjection and of asserting the just Descent of the Crown in that order which God and Nature and our Fundamental Laws have prescribed these would never have been heeded nor received from us had we not then declar'd our real aversion to Papal Superstitions and Vsurpations The same desires of Peace and of Obedience to the King and the Laws under which we live engage us equally against Papists and Dissenters 'T is not their private Opinions however absurd in themselves that are to be chiefly feared but the tendency of their Principles and endeavours to alter the frame of our Government and to bring our Sovereign under Presbyterian Synods or Pontifical Chairs Our constant Loyalty and peaceable disposition oblige us to oppose either of them most earnestly who most presseth upon the State and is most formidable and dangerous for the present Our truly Primitive and Christian Religion doth all possible ways oblige and engage us to be true affectionate and subject to those great Officers whom God hath appointed to be his Vicegerents to preserve the peace of the World we have in our publick Prayers frequent Mementoes and Endearments of this Duty in our most solemn and devout Addresses to the Throne of Grace And a true Member of this Church can never be an ill Subject Therefore as duty and interest oblige Ministers of Religion to