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A48723 The churches peace asserted upon a civil account as it was (great part of it) deliver'd in a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor in Guild-Hall-Chappel July 4 / by Ad. Littleton, presbyter. Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694. 1669 (1669) Wing L2560; ESTC R37938 36,810 50

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1. Because God is as much provoked by the one as by the other 2. Because such sins do more exceedingly divide and unty the bonds of Love and Amity then other Civil differences do and so loosen the hearts of men from one another The Instances wherein He would have the Magistrate exsert his power are these Page 32 33. To encourage Orthodox Ministers and the Schools of Learning To take care that all who own Christian Religion amongst us be required to attend upon the Ministry To endeavour to reconcile dissenting brethren that we may unite against the Common Adversary To secure Fundamental Doctrines and for that purpose to take care for Catechising c. I thought fit to give thee this Intimation that if thou think'st my answers not full enough to those Objections which the streights of time would not give leave for in the Pulpit thou may'st know whither to have recourse as I said for thy better satisfaction I shall conclude with the same profession as that Reverend Author does Page 34. that I have not pressed this Doctrine of the Peace of the Church to the straightning or grieving of any who love our Lord Jesus in sincerity Only I wish that they who made the earliest departure from the English Church in these late times would as He does for many of them reflect upon themselves and apply that of Hazael whether they could some years since have been perswaded to believe that they should have lived to see such a trail of opinions and mischiefs break in upon Church and State upon the advantage of their perhaps at first not ill-meaning discontents And let thee and me and every honest English-man pray for the Peace of our Jerusalem in His Paraphrase Page 8. That God would protect his Ordinances and maintain his Truth that he would prosper Fundamental Laws the beauty and stability of Religious Government c. that the Tabernacle and the Tribunals Religion and Policy may jointly flourish they being the foundations of publick happiness and which usually stand and fall together PSAL. CXXII Vers. 8. For my Brethren and Companions sakes I will now say Peace be within thee THE Occasion upon which this sacred Ode was penn'd a Reverend Person in his Annotations tells us he believes was Davids return to Ierusalem to the Publick Service of God again at the Temple after Absalon's defeat Calvin is of opinion that David made it at the time when the Ark was setled upon Mount Sion and the building of the Temple designed for the uniform Exercise of the National Religion Upon either account it will very well suit with our Meridian The whole Psalm is an Elogy or Panegyrick Description of the Metropolis of Iudea the City of Ierusalem and that not only nor so much upon the Civil account that there are set Thrones of Iudgment the Thrones of the House of David Vers. 5. That 't was the Imperial City where the King kept Court whence Laws were issued and Authority derived for the Government of the rest of the people There sate the Sanhedrin the great Council of the Nation and there the supream Courts of Judicature which received Appeals from all inferior Districts But also and much more upon the Ecclesiastical account this City being the Residence of the great King the Lord himself who had set his Name there and chose the Temple for his dwelling-place Whither the tribes go up the tribes of the Lord unto the testimony of Israel or more exactly to the Original according to the testimony for Israel to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord. This City then was the appointed place of Gods publick and solemn Worship whither all the people of that Country were thrice a year at the three great Festivals obliged to come up to present themselves before the Lord in the Temple according to the testimony of Israel i e. by a perpetual Statute and standing Ordinance to that people the Laws of God being usually in Scripture-language styled Testimonies Now that there was by this Testimony or Statute for the Tribes coming up to Ierusalem designed a strict Uniformity in that peoples Exercise of their Religion is of it self clear in the very History for the Tribes did not every one bring up a several Form of Worship along with them but all as one man made a solemn appearance together at the Temple in one joynt acknowledgment and regular Service And Mr. Calvin tells us as much that God appointed one Temple and one Altar on purpose for the whole Nations use nè populus in varias superstitiones difflueret that the people might not by being left to their own liberty in the Worship of God run loose into a world of wild opinions and practices about matters of Religion And that further by Ierusalem whose Peace we are here to pray for is to be understood the Church as it is the appointed place of Gods publick Worship appears by the very context of the Psalm it self which begins and ends with this Notion vers 1. I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord and then in order to this 't is said vers 2. Our feet shall stand within thy gates O Ierusalem that being the ready way to the Temple and in the last verse again he concludes Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good i.e. the good of Ierusalem in its Ecclesiastical State as the House of God the Temple the place of solemn Assembly belonged to it And thus Calvin expounds that of the third verse Ierusalem is built as a City that is compact together or as the common Translation has it As a City that is at unity in it self not for the uniformity of the building but says he propter civium consensum for the unanimity and mutual agreement of its Citizens in the Worship of God and in the Exercise of Religion And that the people should all thus joyn their affectionate good wishes and most earnest endeavours for the Peace of Ierusalem thus considered to seek the prosperity and to promote the welfare of the Church in a fair compliance with publick Order and in a quiet regular Exercise of the National Religion the Psalmist here in the close of the Psalm bring no less than three Arguments 1. From every mans personal concern in the Churches safety Pray for the peace of Ierusalem they shall prosper or they shall be quiet and at ease that love thee i.e. God will bless such persons with a quiet and a happy life that love the Church and wish her well and pay a regular obedience to her Orders and Government And this upon a meer Natural Principle of self-love implanted in every mans breast and of that charity which we use to say begins at home the parts being all safe in the preservation of the whole every private mans Cabin secure while the Ship of Government steers right whereas those that by wilful disobedience contrive publick