IR DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE THE PEACE-MAKER OR GREAT BRITTAINES BLESSING Fram'd For the continuance of that mightie Happinesse wherein this Kingdome excells manie Empires Shewing the Idlenesse of a Quarrelling Reputation wherein consists neyther MANHOOD nor WISDOME Necessarie for all Magistrates Officers of PEACE Masters of Families for the confirmation of Youth and for all his Maiesties most true and faithfull Subiects To the generall auoyding of all Contention and Bloud-shedding LONDON Printed by THOMAS PVRFOOT An. Dom 1618. CVM PRIVILEGIO HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ⧠To all Our true-louing and Peace-embracing SVBIECTS THE Glory of all Vertues is Action the Crowne of all Acts Perfection the perfection of all things Peace and Vnion It is the Riches of our Beings the Reward of our Sufferings the Musicke on our Death-beds Neuer had so great a Treasure so poore a purchaser for man hath the offer of it The God of peace sent it the Lambe of peace brought it the Spirit of peace confirmde it and Wee still seeke to practise it With what power then may the good purpose of this worke arriue at the hearts of all faithfull Christians and with what cheerefulnesse and freenes ought it to be embrast of all our louing Subiects hauing so many Glorious seales of Honor Power and Vertue to strengthen it all that is required of Vs from you is a faithful and hearty welcome and that bestowd vpon mans best and dearest Freind either in Life or Death For peace that hath beene a stranger to you is now become a sister a Deere and Naturall sister and to your Holyest loues we recommend her THE PEACE-MAKER The Booke it selfe in glory of its name is proud to tell from whence the subiect came PEACE be to you I greet you in the blessing of a God the salutation of an Apostle and the Motto of a King My Subiect hath her being in Heauen her Theory in holy Writ and her practique in England Insula pacis The Land of Peace vnder the King of Peace Like Noahs Doue she was sent out to seeke a resting place to see if the whole world were not yet couered with the perpetuall deluge of Blood and Enmity only here she found the Oliue Leafe Hitherto hath she been Pilotto the Arke heere it first toucht shoare heere now it hath remained full Fifteene yeeres I am proud to report it Reioyce O England with thine espoused Scotland and let thy handmaid Ireland ioy with thee Let all thy seruant Islands be glad yea let in strangers to behold and tast thy blessings The disturbed French seeke succour with thee the troubled Dutch fly to thy confines the Italian leaues his hotter clymate These and many more all seeke shelter vnder the sweet shaddow of thine Oliue Branches O London blessed M rs of this happy Brittaine build new thy Gates ther 's peace entring at them The God of peace hath sent this peace of God ô euer loue her that she may neuer leaue thee salute her and inuite her Let White-Hall fit embleme for her purity be her chiefe Pallace and let it say Ades almasalus Peace and Contention lye heere on earth as trading Factors for life and death Who desires not to haue traffique with life who weary of life but would die to liue Peace is the passage from life to life come then to the factory of peace thou that desirest to haue life behold the substitue of peace on earth displaying the flag of peace Beati pacifici Let Contention enioy without ioy large Empires heere wee enioy with all ioy our happy Sanctuarie It was borne with him he brought it with him after Fiue and Thirty yeares increase and heere hath multiplyed it to Fifty with vs ô blessed Iubile let it be celebrated with all ioy and cheerefulnesse and all sing Beati Pacifici And are not the labours blest with the worke-man England Scotland though not malicious enemies yet churlish Neighbours are reconciled Feast loue liue and dye together are indeed no more neither what they were but a new thing betwixt them more firme and neere in their louing Vnion then euer deuided in their harty vnkindnesse and now both say with one tongue Beati Pacifici Ireland that rebellious Outlaw that so many yeares cried blood and death filling her Marrish grounds with massacres affording many preys of slaughtered bodies to her rauenous Wolues and in their wombes keeping the brutish obsequies would know no Lord but grew more stubborne in her chastisement till this white ensigne was displayed then shee came running with this hallowed text in her mouth Beati Pacifici Spaine that great and long-lasting opposite betwixt whome and England the Ocean ranne with blood not many yeares before nor euer truc'd her crimson effusion their Marchāts on either side traffiqu't in blood their Indian Ingotts broght home in bloud a commerce too cruell for Christian Kingdomes yet now shake hands in friendly amity and speake our blessing with vs Beati pacifici Nay what christian Kingdome that knowes the blessing of peace has not desired tasted this our blessing from vs Come they not hither as to the Fountaine from whence it springs Heere sits Salomon and hither come the Tribes for Iudgments Oh happy Moderator blessed Father not father of thy Country alone but Father of all thy neighbour Countries about thee Spaine her withstanding Prouinces long bruised on both sides thou hast set at peace turning their bloody Leaguers to leagues of friendship doe not those children now liue to blesse thee who had else been buried in their Parents wombes and say Beati pacifici Denmarke and Sueuia Sueuia and Poland Cleue and Brandenburg haue not these many more come to this Oracle of Peace and receiued their doomes from it If the members of a naturall body by concord assist one another if the politike members of a kingdome helpe one another and by it support it selfe why shall not the Monarchall bodies of many Kingdomes be one mutuall Christendome if still they sing this blessed lesson taught them Beati pacifici Let England then the seat of our Salomon reioyce in her happy gouernment yea her gouernment of gouernments and she that can set peace with others let her at least enioy it her selfe let vs loue peace and be at peace in loue We liue in Beth-salem the house of Peace then let vs euer sing this song of peace Beati pacifici Detraction snarles and tempts faire Peace to show the plentie of her fruits and how they grow SEd vbi fructus Where are all these rich and oppulent blessings that this tender white rob'd Peace hath brought with her Aetas parentum peior auis c. Our Grandfathers for the most part were honester men then our Fathers our Fathers better then wee and our Children are like ynough to bee worse then our selues Do's Peace keepe a Pallace where Charity may warme
herselfe Shame murmurer hadst thou rather with the forgetfull Israelites go backe to the Flesh-pots of Egypt bought with blowes and burdens then eate Manna in the way to Canaan Doest thou thirst heere t is for want of Sacrifice to him that should refresh thee then Thy Grandfather prayed for this that thou enioyest and though hee had it not himselfe yet prepared it as a blessing on thee The Sunne that daily shines on thee thou letst it passe with a carelesse neglectiue eye but were it hid from thee the change of a Moone thou wouldst then welcome it with all alacrity chearefulnesse Were blowes more bountifull to thee Did bloud yeild thee benefit Warre affoord thee wealth Didst thou make that thine owne by violence which was anothers by right It may be the Hand-maid was fruitfull and the Mistres barraine But Sarah has now brought foorth and in her seed are the blessings come Hagar is despised Peace hath conceiued and smiling Isaack hath left vs Iacob a new Israell a Prince of God a man that hath preuayld with God to plant his peace with vs. The trading Marchant finds it who daily plowes the Sea and as daily reapes the haruest of his labours What wants England that the world can enrich her with Tyre sends in her Purples India her Spices Affrick her gold Muscouie her costly skins of beasts All her neighbour Countries their best traffique all purchased by friēdly commerce not as before by sauage cruelty The feare lesse trades and handicraft men sing away their laborsal day hauing no note drownd with either noise of Dromme or Cannon and sleepe with peace at night The frolicke Countryman opens the fruitefull Earth and crops his plenty from her fertile bosome Nay even his toyling beasts are trapt with bells who tast in their labours the harmony of peace with their awfull gouernors The Magistrate constantly drawes his sword of Iustice on offenders not ore-awed by party-headed contentions The Kingdomes beauty the Nobilitie who were wont to bee strangers in their natiue country leading the ranks of blood and death against their enemies haue now no enemy but keepe their practise amongst themselues to pastime with Nonne haec meminisse voluptas And now more sweet and holy are Pillars at home that were enforced to be prodigies abroad all being by a heauenly Metamorphosis transhaped to become the becomming branches of the great Oliue Tree of Peace And doth not Charitie dwell here with Peace ô blind detraction Has not in foretimes vnwilling necessity erected two Hospitals and now most free and willing Charity hath in augmentation of her glory raised Twenty Almeshouses yea so many for one and giue her true testimony Nay has she not done the great wonder built some Churches repaird many and still her hand is dealing Is not the summe of all Religion establisht by her Are not the Flesh-eating fires quencht and our Faggots conuerted to gentler vses O but those Corne-fields must neuer be without some Tares vntill the generall Haruest Israell must not at once destroy all the Inhabitants of the land of promise but by little little least they boast and say it was our strength and not the Lords hand that did it Nor shall our peace in her yong Plantation enioy so full and perfect a tranquillity but that there will be with vs contentious Cananites seditious Iebusites crafty Gibeonites drunken Amorties and arrogant Anakims Envy shall stand betweene and hold two Brothers of either hand of her Sectarists and Schismatiques shall breake the peace of God wound the mother of peace the Church and bind together false Brotherhoods to dissipate the vnity and bonds of peace Law shall wrangle with her Ebrietie drinke shall strike her Pride and Ambition shall seeke to ouerthrow her yea euen her oylie and most dangerous enemie Hypocrisie shall get within to strangle her yet still shall she stand and raigne and conquer Inuidiam pax prosternet she shall mount to Heauen and throw her enemies as low as Hell where peace shall neuer come Enuy shall gnaw her own entrailes Schisme shal perish Law shal be silent Drunkennes shall burst it selfe Pride shal be humbled in her own habitatiō and hollow-harted Hipocrisie shall find no peace Vbi Deorū numen praetenditur sceleribus subit animū timor Where the Maiesty of God is made a colour for mischiefe a feare comes into that brest his peace shall be tremblings doubts and horrors his hart shal then faint that told him before like hart-stealing Absolon in his Fathers gates thy cause was good when it was not so Or like the false foolish Prophets that told the people it was pax pax peace peace when it was no peace The wals were daubd with vntemperd morter and they shall fall yet still shall Truth haue Peace and the Peace-maker shal preserue the truth They shall dwell together and liue together The heauenly Soldiers haue sung it the Father hath sent it the Son hath brought it the blessed Doue shall preserue it euer comfort vs with it our Annointed hath receiued it wee doe enioy it and see it plentifull in Israell Peace takes a view of such as doe molest and kindle most vnquiet in her breast PVt vp the Bel-bearer first then all the flock will follow Pride has lost her place or comes behind for her greaterstate t is Drunkennes that leads now and marke the Heard that troope after her Lust follows close Contention at her sleeue Emulation on tother side Enuie keepes the sent like a Bloodhound Reuenge and Murder come coupled together The smaller headed Beasts are vnseene yet as Breach of Freindship vnlocking harty secrets Slaunder Oaths Blasphemies fearfull Inuocations all which custome hath driuen so far distant frō the Soules eye as the Moone from the ocular sight whose body ouerbulks the Earths large Center yet seemes as little as her Figure taken on the tauerne signe where these brutish orgies are celebrated abuse of Time Ryot Prodigallity and lineall succeeding pouerty All these are peace's profest Enemies her domestique foes who vnlesse this fore-battel be repulst supprest in the first assault the rest will follow though to their owne perdition Non ignota refero these are no wonders with vs there may be Monsters among thē but too familiar with our acquaintāce examine the Ring leader Drunkennes is no stranger in the world she came in with the Earths first generall Curse and he that scapt that Inundation of Waters tasted the Deluge of Wine Shame fell on him and his Curse to posteritie Noah tasted one and Cham felt the other Lot had his portion in her There Drunkennesse begat Incest an vnnaturall Issue of a brutish Mother and her succession two wicked Generations Moab and Ammon Drunkennesse played the part of a Heads-man with Holofernes stooping his neck to the weake arme of a Woman and he that stopt the Waters of Bethulia from others had so much of his owne Wine as made him
sencelesse of eyther Wine or Water euer after Alexander inter epulas clitum charissimum transfodit the friend hath sprinkled his Wine-bolles with the deare bloud of his friend Oh brutish Sacrifice Oh Man vnman'd Oh absent Man where out of thy selfe dost thou remaine while this Fiend possesseth thee But why do we seeke Antiquities for proofe of a practice so present with vs Had Israel any sinne that England hath mist Was Noah drunke one of the Arke and one of the eight reeling there it is eight to one that seuen of eight do stagger here if not the whole Vessel It was a shame to one then but custome hath made it no shame for all now Did Lot commit Incest with his owne daughters Could we not wish Drunkennesse to excuse vs now Does not Lust her hellish handmaid challenge this Weapon hers The example was too soone found and yet too late to remember Oh would that had been the first and that we might neuer know a second Nec linguam nec manum continet ebrius how many bosom'd counsels haue been vomited out of the mouth of a Drunkard thogh to the ruine destruction of his former friend Oh Insania voluntaria Oh wilfull Madnesse of Man to depresse quench out all thy faculties of Reason with this puddle Drunkennesse Thou that armed in thine owne Lordly Fortitudes canst reach the Starres measure the Earths large Globe search and vnderstand the Seas profound Abysse yet in this sottish Ignorance canst not find the depth of thine owne stomack The Iewes old Prouerbe hath carried his full sence quite through Christendome Homets Ben Iin. Wine must needes acknowledge it selfe the Parent of Vineger meaning that a good Father may haue a different and sawcie Sonne But we haue from him the Daughter of a worse haire this common Strumpet Drunkennesse whom almost all sorts do sleepe with not Vinum egrum but aegrotum is our Issue a sick and vnholsome Harlot yet hath spred her selfe into large Off-springs in most lineall and naturall Children as Lust Enuie Reuenge Murder c. all impious and turbulent Peace-breakers Oh Peace shal we not feare thy longer abode with vs if we embrace thee with no better loue How many louing friends haue broke that Diamond of Amitie whose pieces once disseuered can neuer be reconciled for the embrace of a lasciuious Curtizan whose armes are like the Iron Idoll that crustht the cursed Sacrifices in pieces Enuie Oh what does that vlcus animae amongst vs That Aetna in a Man that continually burnes it selfe intus extra within and without that like the Cantharides found feeding on the fairest and flourishing Roses so Enuie is euer opposed against the most Sweet Noble Flourishing and Peacefull Blossomes Were she as rare as the Comparison I could call her Phoenix and wish that this day she would burne her selfe and leaue her ashes Issuelesse Reuenge Whence haue we borrowed thee Oh Salmoneus Terror shall we play with Thunder and Lightning and follow thy precipitated Fate Shall we snatch the Sword the peculiar Sword from the Almightie hand Haue we receiued wrongs on Earth Consider then if we haue done no wrongs to Heauen If we stand guiltie there as Quis non Doe we then reuenge No we stand disobedient and repugnant to our owne iust punishments We haue a milder Sister giuen in her stead Iustice the Arbitrer of our Iniuries but Vengeance is Gods alone which no man ought to take in hand but as deliuered from his hand nor so to imitate his Maiestie and Greatnesse that does it not but by Authoritie and in the way and path of his Goodnesse Murder Oh Cain-created Sinne Cursed Catastrophe of all the rest This is Summum opus Here is the full point and end of the Labour all the precedent Trauellers are here at home the end hazzarding the endlesse end Fearefull Spectacle Here is capitall Sacriledge the Temple of a holy Spirit robbed and ruined Here is Treason in the highest degree the Workmanship and Image of the Creator defaced vnhappie Passiue but more and most of all vnhappie Actiue Thou that doest Murder doest first deface him in thy selfe then in thy Brother God is the God of Peace of Mercie Meekenesse Long Suffering and Louing Kindnesse All these hast thou expulsed from thy self and lost thy shape with them there is neyther Peace Mercie Meekenesse Sufferance nor Loue in thee Then in thy Brother thou destroyest them His Bloud is Vox Clamans and he is enforced in Death from the many mouthes of his Wounds to crie out for Reuenge But is Heauen farre off and will not that moue vs Looke vpon the Deed then with Naturall Pitie or a Conscience which is as inseparable as thy Soule that shall not leaue thee liuing Behold a Brother weeping ouer his Brother a distraughted Mother tearing her haire and rending her heart for her Childs losse a Friend with Teares embalming his deare Friends Bodie a rauing Father readie to send his Soule after his Sonne yea perhaps his onely Sonne his Name and Posteritie destroyed with him Then Brothers Friends Mothers Fathers all their Curses to be throwne on thee Are Heauen Earth both dull motiues to thee O beware the third place let Hell affright thee and let thy conscience describe it to thee I returne to that which I would wish thee neuer to passe and then thou canst not come to the vnblessed discouerie of it and it's Pathes before recited that lead thee to it Peace stay and abide with her and thou shalt neuer know her Enemies Gods Enemies and thine owne Enemies Let them that seeke Peace find Peace enioy Peace and haue their Soules layd vp in Eternall Peace Of Wise men I discourse by Iniuries neuer shaken What Reputation is I shew a thing so long mistaken IN this small Particle consists the ground of all Quarrels whatsoeuer either by suspecting false things or by aggrauating small things Now how farre these two are from the wayes of a Wise man and how ill becomming Reason makes manifest for Suspition and Aggrauation are the Off-springs of Passion and a Wise man is free from Passion Nor can there be a greater argument of defect and despaire of merit in man then Suspition and marke her Nutriment what strange food Passion hath prouided for it It feeds vpon false things for indeede true things are not to be suspected and how iust the punishment meetes with the offence in erring from the Truth it hath Falsehood for a reward But in peiora ruunt omnia the worse Deuill is behind The Aggrauation of small things when a sparke shall grow to a flaming Beacon a Word to a Wound the Lye to a Life when euery man will be the Master of his owne Reuenge presuming to giue Law to themselues and in rage to right their owne wrongs At which time the Sword is extorted out of the hand of Magistracie contrarie to the sacred Ordinance of the Almightie Now the wise and vnderstanding man is not subiect or
fuell of Wrath. And Ephes 2. 14. Christ is our Peace which hath made of both one and hath broken the stop of the partition wall Moreouer the heauenly Souldiers at the Birth of Christ praysing God said Glory be to God in the high Heauens and Peace in earth and toward men good will And as his most blessed Natiuitie was the Fountaine of Peace there wanted not the fruits that sprang from that sacred Fountaine in his departure Iohn 14. 27. Peace I leaue with you my peace I giue vnto you Let not your heart be troubled nor feare Let not your heart speaking to many because all his ought to bee of one heart which is a worke of Peace And not leauing but in the same Euangelist 16. 17. I will pray my Father and hee shall giue you another Comforter that hee may abide with you for euer Intimating thereby the eternall Peace of Soule and Conscience by the comming of the Holy Ghost calling him in the words immediately following Euen the Spirit of Truth whom the Father will send in my Name 26. hee comes all Peace and in the name of Peace of Christ our Sauior And to adde more glory to the Name of Peace behold how the incomprehensible Godhead desires to be comprehended all into Vnitie Trinitie in Vnitie Which shewes that Vnitie is the Conseruer Sustainer and Comprehender of all things both in Heauen and Earth Thou therefore that in the madnesse of thy bloud attemptest to destroy Vnitie thou seekest to destroy that which Heauen and Earth is sustained by Most miserable of Creatures thy Soule hath but one Supporter and in the tempest of thy furie thou ouerturnest that and all Peace enters here in Armes and ouerthrowes By force of her owne strength her strongest Foes ANd first behold her contending with her most honourable enemie euen hee that with better authoritie may slay his tenne thousand then any other his thousand I his hundred yea one single life Eyther the haughtie Challenge the curious Duell or the bloud-thirstie Reuenge to wit Warre it selfe sometimes a principall Arrow shot from the heauenly Bow of Iustice a forced Arbiter betwixt different Kingdomes and often prooues the deare Moderator Yet this great Souldier with all his Attributes of Fame and Honor fals farre short of our high-throned Empresse Peace Marke how the Philosopher hath ordered this Battell and giuen the Colonies to both these great Commanders Pacem cum omnibus habebis bellum cum vitijs Haue Peace with all the world only warre with thy sins Melior tutior est certa pax quà m incerta victoria for more safe and noble is a certaine Peace then a doubtfull Victorie with all his Honours attending But let vs beleeue no cowardly Philosophers let him that in his hand holds both and from his hand sends both be the Iudge betwixt vs. When was Warre sent as a Blessing or Peace as a punishment Let his Iudges iudge our cause Iudg. 5. vers 8. They chose new gods then was Warre in the Gates Here is an Offence and here is a Punishment Idolatry and Warre Againe They turue to the Lord and the Land had Peace fortie yeeres Here is Penitence and here is the Blessing Seruing God and Peace If then the Generall of Bloud and Death euen Warre it selfe be a Prodigie a Curse and not a Blessing What shall his base Imitator be What Honour shall the Challenger lay challenge to What bloud shall the Reuenger dare to shead or what Fame shall the Schoolemaster of Duels atchieue with all his vaine-glorious and punctuall Orders of firsts and seconds lengths of weapons distances of place heights of grounds equalities of wind and Sunne O wicked Ashkelon and her Suburbes let them be taken and destroyed together Why doe wee quarrell What is the end of the fayrest Warre to enioy Peace See how the Seruant labours for the Mistresse and foolish they that enioy their Inheritance yet know it not Thriftlesse Gamesters to play for their owne Money Is thy Night quiet and sweete with Peace Embrace her in the Day and keepe her continually If thou lett'st bloud into thy bosome in the Day Peace will not stay with thee at night Peace weares no parti-coloured Coat no mixt Scarlet and White but White in her Puritie nor fat nor bloud must bee eaten in the Peace-offering Leuiticus 3. Now ascend Abarim and climbe vp to the Mountaine of Nebo and see some part of the Land of Promise whither this blessed Peace shall lead thee if shee bee thy conduct but be sure to look vpwards and then thou canst not feare the depth beneath thee Behold the Father the God of Peace the Sonne the Lambe of Peace the blessed Spirit the Doue of Peace the Angels Seruants and Ministers to this power of Peace Infinites and all reioycing at one soules entrance into Peace Behold the new Ierusalem Kiriath-salem the Citie of Peace that which was Militant and troubled in the Wildernesse the Church behold it there triumphant in euer blessed Peace That Peace which as it is vn-intelligible so is it most vnutterable Then if we desire to be Inhabitants in this Land of Promise Peace obserue our entrance We haue yet two Mountaines to passe ouer Iordan by Geresim and Ebal and the twelue Tribes placed on each side both to blesse or curse vs. EBAL Heere wee haue our choise and wee are euer going on in this Passage O let vs passe by Geresim the Mount of Blessings the right Hand and the right Hill Turne thy backe to Ebal but let none of her Curses fall vpon thee GERESIM Pride Humilitie Malice Mercie Ambition Charitie Schismaticall contentions Faith Reuenge Peace Impietie Pietie Be thou strong or weake thou mayest with more ease beare sixe on thy right hand then one on thy left Pride is a great weight able to ouerthrow the strongest man Malice a ponderous Load turning thy sleepes to vnquiet slumbers and euen there haunting thee in restlesse Dreames Ambition a Mountaine it selfe to sinke thee Schisme a Spirit and Conscience-troubler Reuenge an Impostume of Bloud which broken once strangles thee with thine owne Corruption Impietie a Cloud and Mist of Darkenesse turning thee from thy way When as on the other side how light and easily mayest thou beare about thee Humilitie How sweet a Companion is Mercie How louing a Fellowship is Charitie How sure a Friend is Faith How nourshing a Cordiall is Peace How bright a Lampe is Pietie And then how glorious a Reward is Eternitie and Peace in Eternitie Now let vs bind our selues to the Peace put in Securitie for our Good Behauious Let our Soules be bound for our Bodies our Bodies for our Soules and let each come in at the Generall Sessions to saue his Bayle where we shall find a mercifull Iudge If there we can answere we haue not broke his Peace our Bonds shall be cancelled As we haue kept the Peace we shall be rewarded with Peace and kept in Eternall Peace Amen FINIS Detractiō to Peace Peace answere Flamin Consul Ezech. 13. 10.