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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57328	Elias the Second his coming to restore all things, or, God's way of reforming by restoring ; and, Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of two contending brethren in two sermons : the former preacht in Warwick at the Generall Assize there held August 19, 1661 : the other in Coventry at the annuall solemnity of the maior's feast on All-Saints Day following : both publisht at the importunity of divers of the auditors being eminent persons of quality in that country / by John Riland ...	Riland, John, 1619?-1673.; Riland, John, 1619?-1673. Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of two contending brethren.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1519; ESTC R11927	45,131	119

which of it self would be smooth and calme enough but that the boisterous winds do so enrage and discompose it and thus the minds of Christians after all these troubles sure would be of themselves Even and quiet but only the blustring breath and tempestuous tongues of some men do nothing else but ruffle and disturb them And this they will do for as he in the Hieroglyphick that had the Quiver of Arrows could say Nequicquam nisi emitterem To what purpose unlesse I spend them So those that abound in Malice Pride Self-willednesse ill Principles and the like and have their Quivers full of them alas they loose their Talent of Mischief unlesse they trade with it And hence is it that Firebrands Arrows and Death are hurl'd about with such confidence and all in sport indeed a mad-man's sport so was it formerly accounted but now adaies this more is done in good sad earnest by the sober Subverters of our Kingdome who very seriously contrive the Plat-forme of new Confusions and upon pretence of pulling down I know not what imaginary Babylon as I have seen the blackest Chimney bedeckt with the goodliest Flowers do indeed what they can lay the foundations of another Babel Is this torrid Temper any part of that Fire Luk. 12. 49 which Christ came to send upon the Earth no I cannot believe it Is this the Gospell trumpet which that Evangelicall Prophet speaks of saying Life up thy voyce like a Trumpet I can't believe Isa 58. 1. that neither 'T is confest they do lift up their voice like a Trumpet indeed but what not to tell Iacob of his Sins so much as his supposed Sufferings nor to reproove Transgressions but rather to raise and encourage Rebellion Truly one would think that English Swords had now been sufficiently made drunk with blood and long before this might all have been beaten into Plow-shares even those Qui niteant primo tantum mucrone cruenti whose points have been only dipt much more some others whose blades have been drencht in Bloud But if Swords are not become Plow-shares nor Spears Pruning-books but remain Swords and Spears still then thank the Restlesnesse of those who will not suffer it whose Tongue as'tis the most sharp-edgedsword so is it still unsheath'd and runs riot every where walking through through the World as he describes that fierce Commander in the Head of his severall Regiments Quâcunque vagatur Sanguineum veluti quatiens Bellona Flagellum i. e. Their Tongue is an over-flowing Scourge wheresoever it lights it draws blood O how contrary are these to Moses He saith here Sirs ye are Brethren no say these they are Tyrannicall Anti-christian any thing rather then Brethren He sayes Why do ye wrong one to another not then positively determining which was the wrong-doer till afterward he wrong'd him also who was the Peace-maker but these say peremptorily Sirs they are in the Wrong and doubtlesse you are in the Right O why will ye take the least wrong from any other In a word he finds men at emnity and would gladly make them friends these find men at unity and would fain make them enemies So that however they please to call others Anti christs themselves are plain Anti-Mose's yea I doubt Anti-Prophets and Anti-Apostles also and indeed like genuine Iewes according to that character of theirs they please not God and are contrary to all good men For the Word is the Gospell of Peace Christ is the Prince of Peace God is the God of Peace but these are People that do erre in their hearts the way of peace they have not known If such as these will needs be Preaching For I would not have you think I have been all this while speaking of lawfull Preachers I hope I have not O how beautifull are their feet that bring glad tidings of salvation and pitty it were any of those beautifull feet should prove bloody feet Therefore I say again if such as those I have here spoken of must needs be Preaching t were well they would think of such Subjects as these Study to be quiet Follow the things that make for Peace Obey them that have the rule over you Let nothing be done through strife c. In which kind should they make any adventures yet such Subjects as these now proposed being so much out of their way I suppose it would not be worth a Sabbath dayes journey to go out of ours to hear them So much of the 2d Conclusion And as from this Act of Moses here we have rais'd as to some contrary minded ones matter of just Reprehension so In the third place to All the chief Magistrate 3. Concl. especially here is matter of Religious imitation Reconcile persons at variance compose their differences part their Quarrels prevent their petty strifes and wranglings these little Beginnings from growing to greater Mischiefs Do as doth Moses here who was first their Peace-maker then afterward their Law-giver This is a time of uniting this dayes Solemnity calls for it the Church now comemorating that grand Vnion betwixt Heaven and Earth in the Vnity and Community of All-Saints Not that we are for his Patrocinia Dominorum One God One Lord. Dominus we own and adore but can't tell what to do with that Dominorum Angels themselves though we know not of what Original Extraction before or above us yet as the same Author elsewhere saith acknowledg themselves in respect of us Consanguineos Bern. in sanguine Redemptoris there is Consanguinity betwixt them and us And Origen affirms Hom. 5. sup Levit. Quandam esse cognationem inter visibilia et invisibilia Heaven and Earth are a Kin as it were and the Kindred this day commemorated In this Chapter where our Text is we read how the Heavens were open'd and in one of ib. 56. v. the Lessons for this day we have them open'd Rev. 19. 11 again And whereas in the Transfiguration of Christ we find three together on the Mountain Moses Elias and Christ a Congregation made up of Heaven and Earth two from Above and one yet Below so here in our Text we find the like though not just the same Congregation Moses St Stephen and St Luke one penning another pronouncing the Third we know not how dictating unto him and this Congregation so also compounded as the former one yet of the Church Militant the other two of the Church Triumphant Which severall Openings in Heaven as aforesaid to receive and take in Earth and holy combinations on Earth Earth as it were mixing with Heaven me thinks should much encourage us to the ready embracement of those uniting Motions which this Text affords us especially at such a time as this concerning which beside what hath been already spoken in that regard I shall only adde that of the Psalmist which hints both the day and its duty Sing unto the Lord all ye Saints of his and give thanks c. All Saints except some new