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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42582	Eirēnikon, or, A treatise of peace between the two visible divided parties ... by Irenæus Philadelphus Philanthropus ...	Philanthropus, Irenaus Philadelphus.; Gell, Robert, 1595-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing G469; ESTC R21302	66,598	92

as fight against the soul they are the sensual and brutish self And the same Grace of God arms the believer with weapons might●y hrough God for the casting down imaginations or reasonings and every high thing that exal●eth it self against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought unto the obedience of Christ 2 Cor. 10.4 5. That 's the denyal of the diabolical self What store of matter doth this juncture of time afford for self-denyal Such as the Apostle feared he should finde among his factious Corinthians such we may be sure is to be found among us 2 Cor. 12.20 Debates envyings wrathes strifes backbitings whis●erings swellings tumules This is the ●econd step which who●oever ascends he must expect assaults from the beast and the devil which he hath denyed and renounced And therefore it will be necessary that he ascend also the third 3. The Cross which he must take up dayly But what is the Cross Or rather what is it not He who undertook to write a Clavis Scripturae a key wherewith to open the Scripture saith the Cross is Omnis generis Calamitates piorum presertim veritatis causa toleratas Calamities of every kind of the godly born especially for the truths sake But if affliction or persecution or calamity such as he understands were the Cross then must we take them up and bare them as we are commanded to take up the cross But we are warranted to flee persecutions Math. 10.23 when they persecute you in one City flee to another but verse 38 of that chapter he tells them that he who taketh not up his cross and followeth him is not worthy of him Besides its possible that the Christian Church may for some time be without persecution For Acts 9.31 then had the Churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria and were edified and walking in the fear of God and comfort of the Holy Ghost were multiplied But shall we think that the Christians then laid aside the cross which our Lord commands those who will be his disciples to take up daily and follow him Adde hereunto that if afflictions were the cross which must be taken up then should onely poor and miserable men who could not avoid afflictions they should bear the cross but our Lord enjoyns this duty unto all who will be his Disciples Luke 9.23 Nor do I doubt but the reason why men encline rather to this Gloss that affliction is the cross because all manner of afflictions and tribulations may be born and yet sin may remain and live which generally men love better than their estates their honors yea their lives I have written of the Cross more largely because the bearing of it is a duty most necessary yet almost generally mistaken What then is it to bear the Cross The bearing of the Cross is the Christian patience Revel 1.9 It consists in bearing and suffering all assaults and temptations unto sin from all sorts of causes inward and outward without our yielding thereunto And because this of all other Christian duties is most contrary to the garb and fashion of the world which lies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the evilone exposed to the obedience of his lusts and is most opposed and spoken against hence it is that the bearing of the Cross consists also in suffering ignominy shame reproach cursing and evil speaking So that we see wherein consists our conformity unto Christ crucified viz. in bearing all assaults and temptations unto sin with out yielding our consent thereunto as also in bearing shame and reproach ignominy which follows thereupon from the evil world Of the former the Apostle● eaks Gal. 2. ●0 I am crucified with Christ c. 5. They who are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Of the latter Heb. 12.1 2 3. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame c. consider him who endured such contradiction of sinners against himself Where we have Christs example and our imitation of it expressed in those words Let us run with patience that race which is set before us and Hebr. 13.12 Jesus that he might sanctifie the people with his own blood suffered without the gate There 's Christs example our imitation followes verse 13. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach When our old man is now crucified with Christ that the body of sin is destroyed that henceforth we may not serve sin then all the heavenly minded ones all the quick-sighted Eagles meet at the dead Body And Christ being lifted up will draw all men unto him Then and not till then appears Equity so that whatsoever we would that men should do to us even so we should do to them For while our iniquittes separate between us and our God while our hands are defiled with blood and our fingers with iniquity while our lips speak lies and our tongue mutters perverseness c. while our feet run to evil and make haste to shed innocent blood while our thoughts are thoughts of iniquity while wasting and destruction are in our pathes we cannot know the way of Peace nor is there any judgement in our goings For having made ourselves crooked pathes whosoever goeth therein shall not finde peace Whence followes a spiruual blindness of minde desperation guilty conscience apostasie and revolting from God And therefore terras Astrea reliquit Judgement is turned away backward and ustice standeth a far off for truth is fallen in the street and trodden under foot because we depart not from iniquity Dan. 9.13 By reason of these obstructions in the way of righteousness and Peace it comes to pass that equity cannot enter Esay 59. But when as by Humility Self-denyal and taking up the Cross these impediments are removed and they who are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts they meet in the way of righteousness judgement and equity Prov. 2.9 Then the way of Peace is opened and made known For whereas the universal righteousness consists in privative and positive duties departing from evil and doing good as the Prophets advice i● cease to do evil learn to do well putting off the old man and putting on the new mortifying sin and living unto God the effect of both is Peace depart from evil and do good seek peace and persue it Psalm 34.14 And the work of righteousness is peace and the effect of righteousness is quietness and assurance for ever Which is a demonstration of peace quietness and assurance from the cause of them which is righteousness and to confirm it to us as most certain the Prophet repeats the cause righteousness Esay 32.17 The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ratio causandi or causality will appear from hence Peace is the compendium and abridgement of all temporal and eternal happiness And