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A95806	The good of peace and ill of vvarre, set forth in a sermon preached in the cathedrall church of S. Paul, the last day of July, 1642. By Ephraim Vdall, Rector of S. Austins, London.	Udall, Ephraim, d. 1647.	1642 (1642)	Wing U9; Thomason E113_16; ESTC R23094	24,719	49

Gardens and Orchards for delight and fields of corne for the necessary maintenance of humane life are cut down to the ground or burned up and consumed to the detriment of the posterity that are yet unborne Et nulla salus Bello When Craesus was overcome and taken prisoner by Cyrus he preferred Peace before War by this Argument that in time of Peace the sons did bury their fathers dying before them in the ordinary course of Nature whereas in War the fathers bury their children slain violently by the sword But in War sometimes both fathers and children are exposed naked above ground to the shame of their nature and contempt of their person and to the violence of wild beasts wanting all decency of buriall Psa 79.2 The dead bodies of thy Saints have they given to be meat to the fowles of the heavens and the flesh of thy servants to the beasts of the earth their blond have they shed like water round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them And more than that they are sometime digged and dragged out of their graves in which they were formerly layed at rest and abused with contempt and villany Amos 2.1 This was one great sin for which God would not turne away the punishment of the King of Moab because he burnt the bones of the King of Edom into lime that is digged them up out of the grave when he had laine so long that his flesh was consumed and burned his bones to ashes The Duke of Bedford the Regent of France that was victorious in Normandy in War and governed it with renowned Iustice in Peace dying in that Province was buried under a stately Monument in Rean but when by change and chance of War all Normandy became French and cast off the English yoke the people would have pulled down his Monument and have taken up his carcase and throwne it into the open field but that the humanity of the French King would not permit that barbarous out-rage to his honourable enemy This mischievous indignity to humane nature was the reason why the Romans in their funerals burnt their dead to ashes and put their ashes in an Vrne or earthen Pitcher that if their enemies should at any time sacke and take their City the bodies of their deceased Citizens might not be digged out of their graves and thus inhumanely abused If I could reckon up all the mischiefes that ever were of shall be among men in the world they might all sufficiently be expressed in this one word War Si bellum dixeris omnia dixeris And therefore the contrary blessing Pence cannot but be acknowledged a rare and speciall favour and a blessing of God to his people who will blesse his people with Peace From all that hath been said by way of Explication I draw these usefull directions by way of Application First when we do see this blessing of Peace withheld or shaken and threatned we should be perswaded to renew our Covenants of Peace with God and enter into a consideration of our sins by which we have provoked him to anger that we may be humbled for them and reforme them For be we well assured when wee behold the Lord gathering his forces together and preparing to battaile against us we have broken our conventions and the Articles and Covenants of Peace that we have made with him For because they have cast away the Law of the Lord and despised the holy one of Israel therefore is his anger kindled and his hand stretched out against his people Esay 5.25 and thus he threatneth them If ye will walke contrary to me I will walke contrary to you I will bring a sword that shall avenge the quarrell of my Covenant Lev. 26.24 25. And therefore let us enter into consideration how unworthy of and unanswerable to the Covenant of the Gospell our Nation hath behaved it selfe for whereas we should have adorned the Doctrine of God our Saviour by holinesse and righteousnesse as it doth teach us Tit. 2.11 On the contrary we have lived in all impiety and unrighteousnesse being full of envy hatred malice fraud deceit hypocrisie by lying and killing and stealing and whoring and swearing we breake forth for which God hath a controversie with the Land Hos 4.1 And seemes now to say awake thou sword of the Lord and take vengeance on the breaches of my Covenant of Peace Now therefore upon the alarme given to us by God we should be carefull and studious to renew our Covenants of Peace with him as one advised Job 23.21 Acquaint thy selfe with him and be at peace by Repentance and Faith in Iesus Christ the Mediator of Peace entering anew into Termes and Articles of amity with God and as the men of Tyre and Sydon when Herod was fallen out with them procured Blastus the Kings Chamberlaine to bring them into favour Acts 12.20 So should we by renewing our Faith in Christ that sits at Gods right hand advance our pacification with God Secondly now wee see the confusions of War a brewing and the sto●me begin to arise because we do not know but the date of the Peace of the Nation may be out and the time come to us to drink the heavy and bitter Cup of trembling that hath been put into the hand of all the Nations round about us have smal cause to thinke we shall go free our care should be to provide against the mischiefe of War which can reach to the great dammage of the soule that hath not made its Peace with God in Christ Therefore wee should be perswaded very studiously to provide for the safety and security of our soules laying them up by Faith in Christ in the hands of God as in the hand of a faithfull Creator and a reconciled God in him that if we fall in the common calamity and destructions of the sword and be deprived of that outward Peace which is in the World yet keeping Faith and a good Conscience the sword shall but let our soules out of the body as out of a prison to injoy eternall Peace and rest in Heaven the consummation of the blessed quiet begun in Peace of Conscience in this Life we shall by death be delivered from all the evils that shall come upon the World Esay 57.2 For the righteous is but taken from evils here below and Peace doth come to them in death and the grave is but a bed of rest to them and that fulfilled that our Saviour spoke Ioh. 16.33 In the world ye shall have trouble but in me ye shall have Peace the way wherunto is Faith and a good Conscience Vprightnesse and Integrity of heart for the end of the upright and perfect man is Peace Ps 37.37 therefore saith the Psalmist Keep innocency and do the thing that is right for that will give a man peace at the last and though the Heavens fall the ruines thereof shall not make him affraid his heart being supported by a better hope and