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A40393	LI sermons preached by the Reverend Dr. Mark Frank ... being a course of sermons, beginning at Advent, and so continued through the festivals : to which is added a sermon preached at St. Pauls Cross, in the year forty-one, and then commanded to be printed by King Charles the First.; Sermons. Selections	Frank, Mark, 1613-1664.	1672 (1672)	Wing F2074A; ESTC R7076	739,197	600

as the whole body there must be too for there should be no Schism there says the same Apostle 1 Cor. xii 25. And here to speak of Peace and make the being called into one body the motive to it must needs mean the union and agreement both of the members with one another and with the body it self II. Yet for all that there may be a body with which there is no joyning and men to whose Assemblies our honours may not be united the Motion therefore now secondly for Peace is no farther for it than it is the Peace of God or as some Copies read it the Peace of Christ that is such a one 1. as God commands Such a one 2. as Christ wrought Such a one 3. as Christ practised 1. Such a one as God commands Now what 's that A Peace it is 1. that is joyn'd with righteousness Rom. xiv 17. in which the fruit of righteousness is sown Isa. iii. 18. Not such a Peace or Combination rather as that we read of Prov. i. 11 12 14. where they all agree so far as even to have but one Purse and one Lot among them but the business is to lay wait for bloud and lurk privily for the Innocent without cause that they may find their precious substance and fill their houses with spoil we have had enough of that The Peace of God is Peace that will do righteousness not that Peace that devours the righteous and all A Peace 2. it is that is joyn'd with holiness if it be Gods So we find them together Heb. xii 14. No Sacrilegious Peace then where the Churches Patrimony must be shared among them or they will not be quiet that were to sell God to buy Peace or indeed to sell them both to sell God out of doors and Peace out of doors and all out of doors our selves at last we know it well enough but I know not how to call it whether worldly peace peace only upon worldly interests or the Devils peace that is only for thou Christ or thou Anointed of the Lord why didst thou come to disease us to disquiet us to turn us out We were well enough at peace before thou camest let 's alone in our usurpt Possessions and then perhaps we will be content with peace but for this peace of God and Christ this holy peace it is not for our turn we skill not of it our Spirits are not made for it Nor are they for the third sort of Gods peace neither that which is in the unity of the Spirit and yet 't is not the peace of God that is not so Eph. iv 3. When we Pray and Preach and Prophesie and say Amen with one heart and mouth and spirit when we do all things with decency and order after one fashion with uniformity unite and agree so then our peace looks like the peace of God who is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace even such a peace 1 Cor. xii 33. the peace of God is the peace of Order and Uniformity And his Peace 4. is peace in believing too Rom. xv 13. where we all agree in the unity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God Eph. iv 13. Diversities of Faiths and of Opinions however they may seem to knit sometimes in an outward Community cannot yet challenge to that external agreement the title of the peace of God There must be among us an unity of Faith as well as an uniformity of Order to make up this peace Men are not left to believe as they list nor take up what Opinions they please as there is but one Lord so there is but one Faith says our Apostle Eph. iv 5. where there is more the unity of the Spirit will not be kept the bond of peace whatever is pretended for the Prophecying liberty will not hold them together when opportunity is presented to break it with advantage But I remember I told you some Copies read Christ here instead of God The matter is not much the business but the same The peace of God is the peace of Christ. For between God and us Christ wrought that peace which is the ground of all the rest and such a one also now 2. as he wrought between God and us would he have us see what we can do to work one with another That was between persons at the greatest distance the greatest enemies so must ours be too if it be Christs peace Peace between friends if they jar a little is soon made up no greater a business than the Religion of a Publican will reach to the Christians peace takes in enemies too sends us from the very Altar even to seek a reconcilement with them then also when for ought we know we have given them no offence though they have taken it St. Mat. v. 24. Sends us the world throughout to make peace even with all men says St. Paul Heb. xii 14. this is Christs peace such a one he wrought and such a one it is that we must follow One Point yet higher from his practice Such a one it must be 3. as he practised not only to love our enemies and be at peace with them if possible but to hold our peace if they reject it and revile us for it There are Spirits in the World and they would fain set up for Christs more than any that pretend they are for peace as much as any but they cannot hold but they must open their mouths and extend their lungs and let loose their Pens to enlarge the breaches Micah's Prophets such as God complains of Micah iii. 5. that make the people err that bite with their teeth and cry peace that bite and backbite both King and Church and all that truly endeavour peace that with him in the Proverbs throw abroad their fire brands where ere they come among the people and yet cry Is it not for peace But let these men remember there was one both the Author and Example of our peace that being reviled reviled not again that could hold his peace before the Sheerers and Murtherers though they fly daily in the faces of them that seek their prosperity and peace and by the bowels of Christ beseech them now at last to be reconciled to Christ and the Church to unite with us in the bonds of peace 'T is but a righteous a holy peace a unity of faith and order a general reconcilement and peaceable language and deportment that we desire of them The peace of God you have heard is such and our request is but the Apostles that this peace now may rule among us That 's our third Motion the third Particular of the Text for the Rule of peace 3. The word that is here translated Rule has much more in it several senses And peace it self being of so large a notion and so general a concernment I may I hope take the liberty to use as many of them as will serve my turn Let 's take