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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79540	A Christian and brotherly exhortation to peace: directed unto the soverain states of England, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands. And to the people of both nations. Translated out of the French copie, sent by a lover of peace from beyond sea.	Lover of peace from beyond sea.	1653 (1653)	Wing C3938; Thomason E725_14; ESTC R206769	13,829	21

our eyes from these things Christians and think on these honours on these glories and on these everlasting riches which do wait for us and cannot fail us What if we our selves be so earthly minded that we cannot refrain our affections from these base and unworthy things which we are to leave behinde us Think you that the great King of Kings hath not Treasury and honours enough in this World to fill and enrich you therewith hath he not Indies and hidden Treasures yea Kingdomes to give unto you when he pleaseth Is it not upon these things that you should rather make your Assignations for your Indempnities then upon the blood and lives of his people Do you not know that all the Kings and Princes of the Earth are to come to bend their knees before him and that he promiseth unto his people Empires and Kingdomes Oh if we did but well ponder these things we would not be so eager to cut one anothers throats and to make so great a breach into the holy City for things of nought perhaps you would not have gone half so far in the design which it seems you have to destroy one another When he shall open your eyes and make you know the wrong which you have done unto him He will make you sigh for it and then perhaps you will present your selves before the breach which you your selves have made against those which do lead you thereunto and that wait for nothing else but to come to assault the holy City and your good Mother after the beach is made You that do justifie all your proceedings before men and endeavour to perswade them that you have not acted any thing but by the righteous and just motions of the Spirit of God How do ye think that the true Christians can be perswaded of these things when they see that you will have no peace with those whom the Lord hath also enlightened with his knowledge received into his Covenant and amongst whom he causeth also to shine the light of the Gospel Can you imagine that those who have suspended their Judgements all this while and would see first the carrying on of your proceedings before they would condemn you when they see that you have no peace nor communion with the Saints will entertain any favourable thoughts on your behalf Do you not well know that there be but two sorts of people in the world and that those which are not sealed with the Seal of God have taken the mark of the Beast and worship the Dragon Faith doth assure you that you are written in the Book of the Lamb Charity also obliegeth you to believe the same of those who have followed him who have done like your selves who are gone forth out of Babylon to enter into the spirituall Jerusalem who are members of the same body who have the same Faith the same Law the same Rule with you who follow the same truth and who have been till hitherto your brethren and vvith vvhom you have been enrolled under the same Standard promising to stand for the same cause and the service of the same King who follovv the Lamb who have followed him even unto death who maintain his rights against his enemies who are quickened and cherished with the same Spirit who sing and publish his praises who love and adore him and seek his Kingdome who are hated and persecuted for the same cause as you are Why then do ye not unite your selves to follovv your King vvho comes to deliver you and to give you the possession of the Kingdome After all this if we be resolved not to recede at all from our Interests and that we cannot compose our differences between our selves by the vvay of some friendly Mediations of our Brethren as the Lord doth command us at least let us not decline such a thing vvhich the fiercest enemies refuse not in the heat of a Siege for lesse weighty reasons then these are for vvhich vve do invite you in the name of Jesus Christ to make a cessation of Armes to the end that your distractions may be appeased though it vvere but for a fevv years or for some moneths during which you vvill finde well-beloved Brethren that the great King of Peace vvill open your eyes touch your hearts vvith sweet affections and restore unto you holy exaltations and rejoycings in the Lord. Do you not see the confusion vvhich begins to be spread over Babylon and instead of making use of this for the advancement of his Kingdome it seemes you are a friend of the fall of that whore and that you would fain delay it and advance the desolation of Jerusalem and fill the Holy City with troubles Devoure you not anothers flesh and make your enemies believe that he also made you drunk with the Wine of astonishment Do you not hear the joyfull shoutings and the cries of Blasphemies which the Babylonians do already send forth O that the world would but well consider the things which the Lord is about to do and whereunto he will employ us for the execution whereof he hath put these mighty Armies into your hands to employ them against his enemies and to exercise his vengeance in his Judgements against those who have slain his Witnesses destroyed his Saints and made his Inheritance desolate and who condemn you to Hell usurp his Rights and hinder the approach of his Kingdom and who conspire your Extirpation and thraldome Should you not give care to the Commandements which he layeth upon you to exercise Vengeance and to render unto them double for the mischiefs they have done unto you Do you not fear that he will one day call you to an account for that power he hath given you to be avenged of his enemies instead whereof you were so blinde and wretched as to lend them your hands and to dis-unite your selves one from another to be united unto them Certainly if you will be united unto the well-wishers and Protectors of Babylon you must needs expect these tvvo things to ensue Either she and her King vvill be Conquerours over the holy Jerusalem or she vvill be overvvhelmed by the Judgements of God If she doth remain victorious behold you are reduced again to the spiritual Captivity from whence you are gone forth But if she is subdued you must fell the plagues wherewith she is threatened and drink of her cup. How can you then be united and make peace with those who do uphold her who have given up to her their power and who do learn her blasphemies and adhere unto them against your brethren Let us hearken to the advice which the Lord herein gives us touching the fall of this great Whore and of the abolition of her King Apoc. 18.19 Let us then separate our selves from these Babylonians as the people of God from Corah and his companions left we perish with them We are come to the end of the war and to the valley of Josaphat to the day of