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A57906	A remedie against dissention, or, A help to settle mens mindes in these unsetled times, and to make up the rents made, and likely to be made through the late lamentable increase of opinions and practices as it was delivered in a sermon of Rom. 16,17 / by I.R. ...	I. R., Minister of the Gospell.	1644 (1644)	Wing R22A; ESTC R13056	17,577	24

rendreth a Nation renowned and dreaded abroad Justice filleth the veines of soveraigne treasuries whets the sword bends the bow and armeth the souldier with proofe and confidence of the vigilant prudence of the State whereas if ill counsell and neglect of justice at home send up the cryes of the oppressed like that q Josh 8.23 smoke of Ai their hearts fall dead Justice is a convoy to the solitary traveller an Hospitall to the poore a centinell to the sleeping a lock to the treasury a fence about the fields and vineyards a garison to the City a wall to our houses in fine whatsoever we have or are in things secular under God we owe to Law and Justice the nerves of Warre and strength of Peace r Hec scel●a nisi aberunt contuplex murus rebus servandis parv'st Plant. Pers without which no armies can defend us no fortifications secure us 4. If wee consider the things which differ from this Doctrine it is not ſ Lege haud quaquam viderinūcupatione sacrovè dignas tit●lo quinimò decreta dici verius edictavè ac institutaisiquidem lex bona est aeterna item a summo est bono ac rursum in idem refluit coel Rhodig Antiq. lect l. 18. cap. 19. Law which is not consonant hereto as t Cum iniquae cognoscuntur merit ò damnātur Tertul●adv Gent. c. 4. Platos statutes for community Solons for Harlots me thinkes when I read of such impiety under the sacred name of Law I see the Endor Devill in an holy Prophets mantle u Neque religio ulla sine sapientia suscipienda Lact. l. 1. ib. l. 4. c. 2. l. 4. c. 3. ib. c. 4. Miserable are those states where Religion and Law are divided There Jeroboams pollicy Pharaohs working wisely and Pharisees projection to prevent the Romans supplanting them must prove but Achitophels infatuated counsells 5. Lastly if we consider that this doctrine is the vv sciatis ipsas quoque leges vestras quae videntur ad●nnocentiam pergere de diviná lege vt antiquior is sormae mutuatas Tertull. Apol. c. 45. Ocean of Justice to every humane Law which it feeds and maintaines and that if you follow any streame thereof it will lead you to the Word of God for as wisedome and truth is all of one God whosoever deriveth it to us so is Justice his who not onely hath it as the creature may but is it as no creature can be x 2. Cron. 19.6 Iehosaphat sayd truly to the Judges Yee execute not the judgement of man but of the Lord for vengeance is his The Heathens had some sense of that the Apostle saith There is no power but of God and that all humane Justice floveth from the y Lex non est tantum donum DEI sed ipse DEVS qus donum dedit quia qui Paret legi DEO paret Arist Pol. l 3. Aquin. 12. q. 91. a. 2. dicit esse participa●●onem legis aeternae increatur á rationali Divine Therefore their Law-givers pretended the derivations of their Statutes from some supposed Deity As Zoroaster from Oronasis z Lycurgus Lacedaemeniis leges ex Apollinis autoritate se instituisse confinxerit c. August de Civ DEI. l. 2. c. 16. Strato l. 10. eid Arist pol. l. 2. Coel. Antiq. lect l. 18. c. 10. Lycurgus from Apollo Minos from Jupiter Trismegistus from Mercurie Draco and Solon from Minerva Plato from Jupiter and Apollo 1. It must touch all mens hearts with a reverend esteeme of the Lawes a Legumidcirco omnes servi sumus vt liberi esse possimus Coel. Rhod. q o s which we serve that we may be free and the ministers thereof not onely for feare but also for conscience sake their contempt is the distemper and ruine of the State 2. It must say to the reverend Judges as Iehosaphat once did 2 Chron. 19.6 Take heed to your selves for the Lord will be with you in the cause and in the judgement 3. It must say to all that heare this Doctrine lay it up in obedient hearts it is as the dew distilling from Heaven Deut. 32.1 let it not be entertained as the sweet showers falling into the Sea turning all to bitternesse as it must doe to them whom it cannot convert Be not like the b Fauces maris Caspii vacuantur imbribus crescunt estibus Solim. Caspian Sea emptied with raine and filled with heat as some who learne that they may with false zeale seeme to raile and cast durt into our mothers face this is contrary to peace and the Doctrine which we have learned Our own example aggravates the crime of division and offences Which wee have learned we have learned that from the supreame Law-giver we own obedience on paine of eternall death Miserable is that State where every man makes his owne Religion and Law a Tyranny is better then an Anarchie where every thing is lawfull there is nothing law full therefore I conclude that All miseries and disorders flow into Church and State through these breaches of inconstancy to the wholesome Doctrine and good Lawes received Mutations in Policy or c Nobis verò nibil ex nostro axbitrio inducere licet sed nec eligere qd aliquis de arbitrio suo induxerit Apostolos Domini habemus auctores qui nec ipsi quicquam ex suo arbitrio quod inducerent eligerunt sed acceptam à Christs discipli●●m fideliter nation bus ad signavevunt Tertul. advershaer c. 6. Religion are dangerous recruding of wounds will gangren the sound parts I will shut up all with an addresse 1. To you honoured Lords d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Synoss Ep. 31. soules of Cities who give Lawes life by executing them wherein can I more opportunely implore your helpe then in the present danger Of all offendours I beseech you marke them who cause divisions that the wrath of God may bee diverted from this land this Kingdome never suffered so much as in Divisions and intestine quarrels none but for offences suffer I need not say it is easier to extinguish sparks then enraged flames nor that we are come to our Massa and Merita and that if the leake of separation which hath begun to fill us with the waters of strife be a little longer neglected we are in danger of foundering I beseech you therefore heale the fountaines by the salt of Justice and cast in the branch into the Marahs which now embitter us you best know how to let in floods of severity as e Solim. Caius Marius did the Sea whereby Perniciosam ferventis Rodani navigationem temperavit these variable languages wherein we cannot understand each other or for impatience will not this strife of tongues following the crying sinnes of this land doe not so much portend some ensuing as point out a present confusion 2. To you faithfull Jurours this day to make inquest my text saith as f Jud. 4.22 Joel Come and I will shew you the men yee seeke Marke them who cause Divisions 3. To my brethren of the Ministry I need not say Mark them you know them to your griefe I say If yee be Prophets of the Lord intreat the Lord of Hosts that the rest of the vessels g Jer. 27.18 which are left in the House of the Lord goe not to Babel 4. To the jeering Chams whose pastime is their Parents opprobrie pretending separation from sinners but indeed with greater sinnes because with much greater pride and hypocrisie I would say if they would heare Christ taught none of his to separate from the well knowne h Ipse trad tor Christi de Apostolis fuit Tērtul de preser c 3. fine Judas Who taught you Division if affection have left any place for reason consider the advantage you give the common enemie division weakneth us and strengthneth them Hoc Ithacus velit magno mercentur Atridae They can never overcome us unanimous let them not single us out to our owne destructions 5. To all that heare me I beseech you brethren avoid them whether Innovators or Separatists the two smoaking firebrands the Scylla and Charibdis the gulfes and Chasmas of our Church and State of whom I thinke as Cicero of the factious Caesar and Pompey Quem fugiam scio quem sequar nescio avoyde both extreames hold fast the wholesome Doctrine which yee have learned and the God of peace and unity say Amen and stirre up some sonnes of peace to sound the retreat that it may not be bitternesse in the end and let the contending parties say Amen and and patiently heare each other as men who strived for truth rather then for victory i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. G. Nazianz. orat 14. bearing as much as the cause will permit with the in firme understanding our common interest that we may againe see the face of the Primitive Church wherein all were of one mind and one soule and let all that love the peace of God unity of the Church and prosperity of the State say Amen and the good God make my blessing stronger then the blessing of my elders that peace and truth may be in our dayes that we may appeare with comfort before the tribunall of Jesus Christ O Lord bow downe thine eare and heare us O Lord consider and doe it c. AMEN