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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96606	Peace, and no peace: or, a pleasant dialogue betweene Phil-eirenus, a protestant, a lover of peace. And Philo Polemus, a separatist, an incendiary of War, sutable [sic] to the times. By Richard Williams, Master in Arts of the famous University of Cambridge, and preacher in London at Saint Martins Vintrey.	Williams, Richard, b. 1606 or 7.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2754; Thomason E84_18; ESTC R8487	7,273	8

Peace and No Peace Or A Pleasant Dialogue Betweene Phil-eirenus A Protestant A lover of Peace And Philo Polemus A Separatist An Incendiary of War Sutable to the times By R●chard Williams Master in Arts of the famous University of Cambridge and Preacher in London at Saint Martins Vintrey Psal 123 6,7 Oh pray for the ●eace of Ierusalem they shall prosper that love thee Peace be with●n thy wa●● and plenteous●esse within thy Palaces saith Phil-eirenus Psal 48.22 No peace saith my God to the wicked saith Philo-Polemus Phil-eirenus begins WEll met good brother Philo-Polemus you are very early here this morning you looke very cheerfully Me thinks the alacrity of your countenance divines some sudden Accomodation between the King and His Parliament What newes at Westminster Is it Peace Phil-Pol I saw indeed a pretended Petition for Peace this day with great acclamations presented to the High Court of Parliament by the City Cavellero … deceiving and deluding many Orthodox Schismaticks fostered countenanced by a company of upstart malignants that never contributed any thing to the Parliament but have been averse to all proceedings And because the wisedome of the Parliament had agreed upon an Order for the sessing of the twentieth part of every mans estate towards the charge of this war these malignants therefore having no resolution to ruine themselves have raised a party within the City among themselves that so they might save their estates and contribute nothing to the publicke weale that although there may be something comprised in the petition hat in these distracted times may be tollerable yet in that it proceeded from the Academicke malignants at Oxford even that alone is sufficient to make it contemptible Phil-eirenus Thou seemest to me Brother Philo-Polemus to be too censorious and prejudicate of the actions and intentions of other men What though the religious loyall and true-hearted Protestants in and about the Cities of London and West minster in these deplorable times have petitioned for an accommodation of peace does it follow therefore that they are malignants Nothing lesse For if you rightly understand the terme Malignant you shall easily find that it fetches its derivation from malus and ignis an evill fire so that Malignant and Incendiary seeme to co-incide in one as twins borne at one conception speaking one and the selfe same thing it must of necessity therefore be granted that the God of peace having descended into our hearts which moved us to carry the petition for peace in our hands hoping ere long by the propitiousnesse of Heaven to bring the Olive-branch of peace in our mouthes the long wished for accommodation between our gracious King and his grave Senate that we are cleate from that scandalous and malicious aspersion of Malignants or sncendiaries broached by those who wish ill to Syon that are professed enemies to the peace and tranquillity of our Jerusalem that aime at nothing more then the overture and subversion of the wholesome Doctrine and discipline of the Church and the finall extermination of a quiet and peaceable government from the very bounds and borders of the kingdome sayling from the calme Ocean the still waters the Chrystall streames of the sacred and eternall Word of God so long professed and maintained by the Protestant Tenets exposing themselves to the dangerous shelves of schisme and sedition dashing upon the rocke of their owne pride and presumption being tossed up and downe with the variable wind of every aery doctrine and delighting to plunge themselves in the troubled waters of schismaticall perturbations Let such perverters and disturbers of the peace as these be branded on their fore-heads with the ignominious name of Malignants to posterity may the distempers that they are hatching in the publicke weale be retaliated in a perpetuall distraction upon themselves may the mischiefe they contrive against the Lord and his Anointed fall upon their owne pates may they be Vagabonds upon the face of the earth and let God scatter the people that delight in war Philo-Pol Patience a while Good brother Phil-eirenus you seeme to taxe me of too much censoriousnesse I suddenly giving up my verdict upon the actions of other men and you your selfe fall to execrations the remedy proves worse then the disease your admonitions are turned into Anathema's you seeme to reprove me of one errour being guilty of a greater But waving those cursed execrations as not having any reference to us or any of the brethren who are the onely elect and chosen people of God I must tell you brother you have overslipt the maine force and binge whereupon the strength of the Argument turnes viz. The petitioners for peace must of necessity be very malignant because their factious and seditious Petition was first drawne up at Oxford the contagion of whose malignancie is spread five miles about the University where ere the Cavalieroes foame out their infection breath this Petition was sent hither to breed distraction in the City and fostered by a company of malignants that never contributed any thing to the Parliament for the maintenance of the Cause but have been averse to all proceedings Phil-eir Not too hasty Good brother Philo-Polemus let no rash or unadvised imputation be cast upon that famous University it is not the place that makes the thing malignant but the thing the place for there is no place so good but it may participate of evill and there is no place so evill but some good may proceed from it Shall I contemne a resplendent Diademe because happily it may be cast upon the ground Shall I scorne a transparent Diamond because I find it in a contemptible dunghill Shall I make no estimat of most precious and Orientall Gold because it was raked out of a miry and lothsome channell Wee 'le grant the fountaines may be corrupted the Universities themselves stained with Arminianisme and other erroneous Principles being fallen from their Originall Purity yet shall there no good thing come out of Nazareth Or shall that which is the ravishing joy of Angels the sweet consociation of men the inseparable glew that settles and unites States and Kingdomes in the firme conjunction and bond of peace be counted contemptible because it fetches it's Originall from an University Nothing more ridiculous I have observed the Bees gathering honey from Hemlocke Hellebore most venomous and poysonous herbs I have knowne an Alcumist extract some precious distillation from the basest minerals And it is the observation of Philosophers that the purest gold is most abundant that growes in a barren and unfruitfull soyle For my part I am so far from conceiving that the greatest good may not be extracted from the greatest evill that I would willingly embrace wholsome admonition though it were fecht from the bottomlesse pit of hell But I know brother what makes your rancour swell 't is the very name of an University then which nothing amongst the vulgar is more contemptible as the saying goes Scientia non habet inimicum