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A87568 The right vvay to peace: shewing the art of over-coming one another by love : in a dialogue between a friend and his neighbour. Humbly presented to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons in Parliament : and to the whole nation; / by their old and faithfull servant in the publick, Theodore Jennings. Jennings, Theodore. 1647 (1647) Wing J671; Thomason E412_26; ESTC R204471 17,651 24

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their master And the King prepared great provisions for them and when they had eaten and drunk he sent them away And also we Gentiles who at that time were without Christ being aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel Eph. 2.12 and strangers from the Covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world Yet then even then the Church of the Jews pitied us and did remember us at the throne of grace saying We have a little sister Cant. 8.8 9. and she hath no breasts what shal we do for our sister in the day when she shal be spoken for If she be a wall we wil build upon her a palace of silver and if she be a door we wil enclose her with boards of Cedar And in the new Testament we have the example of Iesus Christ and his servant Steven pittying and praying for their enemies Our Lord Iesus Christ being persecuted in his own person and in his members pitty them often and most tenderly saying Mat. 23.37 O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them which were sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not And when they were come unto Calvary there they crucified him Lu. 23.33.34 Then said Jesus Father forgive them for they know not what they do And when those that were esteemed the learned men of those times Acts. 6.9.10 c. disputing with Steven were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake They suborned men and stirred up the people and the Elders and the Scribes and came upon him and caught him and brought him to the Counsel and set up false witnesses which accusing him of blasphemy said this man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law For we have he●●d him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shal destroy this place and shal change the customs which Moses delivered us And then Steven answered and spake unto them not with the enticing words of mans wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power Acts 7.59.60 Yet they stoned Steven calling upon God and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit and he kneeled down and cryed with a loud voice Lord lay not this sin to their charge So that here we see Steven though not in degree yet in truth is perfect in love even as our Lord Jesus Christ and our father in heaven is perfect So that although he is stoned to death and by the Testimony of false witnesses yet he pittieth them and prayeth for them that God may do them good in the highest degree even by pardoning this even this their great sin and thus in his life and death he is made conformable to our Lord Iesus Christ And when Steven had thus prayed he fell asleep his spirit reposed in rest and peace And our Lord Iesus Christ and blessed Steven obtained their requests For Saul who consented unto the death of Steven at whese seet they that stoned him layd down their Cloaths though now a persecuter is after this by our Lord Iesus Christ called unto grace and made Paul a faithful Apostle even a preacher of the Gospel of our blessed Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ And many of them that crucified our Lord Iesus Christ even about 3000 were added unto the Church at one Sermon O therefore let us live in love even towards our enemies praying for pittying and doing good to them that hate us and dispitefully use us By this we shal bring glory to God and have peace in our selves here with rest and sweet repose to our spirits at our death and declare our selves to be the children of our heavenly father by being perfect in love and not only so but in truth and acceptance also we are perfect even as our Father which is in heaven is perfact Neighbour O blessed truth I heartily desire the father and our Lord Iesus Christ by the spirit of grace to form me and all his into this blessed frame of love I pray you shew me how we may become instrumental to reclaim and reduce our enemies from the Error of their evil way Friend As God shal enable me by the word of truth and his spirit of truth forming me into the truth I shal dedare it unto you and in this respect let us be careful in our Conversations to follow Righteousness faith charity peace 2 Tim. 2.20 with all that call on the Lord out of a pure heart Look how others have been instrumental in following Righteousness faith charity and peace praying and calling upon the Lord for their enemies out of a pure heart and be you the like in calling upon God for your enemies and as you have the practise of our blessed Saviour and of his servant Steven So be sure that you pray without wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God Jam. 1.20 And in this you wil shew forth your righteousness faith charity and peace towards your enemies in the sight of God when you call upon the Lord for them out of a pure heart But be sure to follow this manner of calling upon the Lord for them * Tim. 2.8 Every where lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting Secondly In order to our enemies themselves when they shew much hatred and cruelty against us take heed that we shew much love patience and kindness unto them when they curse let us bless follow the Commandment pursue it obey it in the Lord for this is right Thus let us follow righteousness and peace towards our enemies and in nothing be provoked either by their unrighteous words or deeds but exercise faith in beleeving that God who out of the riches of his free-grace when thou wast an enemy and ungodly did then call thee out of thy natural and sinful condition unto the grace wherein thou standest the same God may call him also unto the same grace together with thee Again in the exercise of thy charity and peace towards thine enemy be exceeding tender unto him or her in the day of distress this may work high thoughts in them of Gods goodness who hath kindled some sparks of his goodness in thee and discovered it by thy conversation unto them If thine enemy hunger give him meat if he thirst Prov. 25.21 Rom. 12.20 21 give him drink this wil extract goodness out of him towards thee and by this means thou heapest coals of fire upon his head not to consume him but to save and to refine him from that dross that is in him even as the refiner tries the gold from the dross by heaping coals of fire upon the head of it in the refiners vessel go thou and do good in like manner but be sure thou be drawn forth in thy spirit with much love to thine enemy in shewing him what great things God hath