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A44512 The blessed advantages of peace and peace-makers In a sermon preach'd at the Savoy in London upon the fifth of St. Matthew; Ver. IX. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God. By Anthony Horneck, D.D. late preacher at the Savoy. Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. 1697 (1697) Wing H2820; ESTC R215358 19,312 50

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Father which is in Heaven will let Men and Angels see that they are his Children that they are so not in Name only but in Deed. He will give the unbelieving World a visible Demonstration that they are so in the last Day in the great Day of Account he will place them at Christ's Right-hand and the Men that would not believe and repent shall behold how dear they are to him for the great Redeemer shall carry them up into his Father's Kingdom If Sons then Heirs Heirs of God and joint Heirs with Christ saith the Apostle Rom. VIII 17. Christ as Man and Mediator became Heir of his Father's Royalty and Power so shall they in the right of adopted Children As Christ ascended into Heaven so shall they as Christ was exalted so shall they as Christ was enthron'd so shall they as Christ was advanced from a low Estate to the highest Dignity so shall they as Christ lives for ever so shall they as Christ cannot be hurt by the second Death no more shall they as Christ had power given him over the Nations over Hell and Devils so shall they reign over all their Enemies as Christ shall judge the World and the Apostate Angels so shall they being Fellow-Sons Fellow-Heirs they all share in his Authority and Grandeur It 's true all this must be believed for it is not seen yet but who can forbear to believe it when we have the Word of the living God for it In a word They shall be Possessours of Heaven and Earth for not only their Father but their Elder Brother is so Crowns and Diadems are preparing for them Crowns which fade not away Crowns which the Moth cannot corrupt nor Thieves break through and steal Crowns made of Beams of Eternal Light Crowns which not only adorn their Heads but fill their Faces with incomparable Beauty Crowns such as Angels wear Crowns which cannot be viewed cannot be thought of without Eternal Admiration Inferences 1. It is easie to guess what Tempers and Actions are contrary and directly opposite to the admirable Qualification recommended and commanded in the Text. Peace being either publick or private and the publick either Political or Ecclesiastical either of Church or State whoever they be that wilfully pusht on by Pride or Passion or some worldly carnal Design without a just lawfull or warrantable cause disorder or disturb that Peace cannot be true Disciples of Christ because they have an Aversion from that peaceable peace-keeping and peace-making Temper which Christ with all the pathetick Adjurations imaginabe hath enjoyn'd his Followers I shall not here reflect on secular Estates and Princes who either begin or maintain an unjust War either to enrich themselves by the Spoils of their Neighbours or to advance their own Glory or to enlarge their Empire and Dominion for the very Light of Nature confutes these Practices and he that is but a Novice in Religion may see nothing is more contrary to the Design of the Gospel However I cannot but spend some considerations on the sad Divisions and Quarrels that are among those who call themselves Christians upon the account of Religion I wonder not to see Mahometans and Jews scandaliz'd at these Divisions the Jews especially when they read such lofty Promises of the Peace and Unity of the Church that was to be under the Messiah as Isa. II. 4. They shall beat their Spears into Plough-shares and their Swords into Pruning-hooks Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation neither shall they learn War any more and Isa. XI 6. The Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard lie down with the Kid and the Calf and the young Lion and the Fatling together and a little Child shall lead them Though these Prophecies have been in a great measure fulfill'd not only in the Apostles times when the Jews and Gentiles who were mortal Enemies before united into one Church under their common Head Christ Jesus but afterward when the Empire became Christian and the Heathen Powers who had most violently persecuted the Christians submitted to the Gospel and embraced those whom they had burnt before and though these Prophecies may moreover be said to be exactly fulfilled partly with respect to the Design and Tendency of the Christian Religion the design and intent of Christ's Laws being to make Men peaceable and partly with respect to the signal change that 's actually wrought upon those who are truly not only in profession and outwardly but inwardly too converted to the Faith of Christ for upon this Conversion their former Hatred and Enmity to others is laid aside and they are all for Peace and Concord though I say these Prophecies are actually accomplish'd in despite of all the Sects that profess Christ's Religion yet the Jews a dull hard inconsiderate sort of People and who are guided much by their Senses seeing the everlasting quarrels that are among Christians and how one party persecutes and abuses the other and upon what slight occasions they quarrel and fall out and break Peace and Communion one with another I wonder not to see them offended at these doings and harden'd in their Unbelief for not to mention the Divisions Heresies and Schisms in the ancient Church at this day the Eastern Churches stand divided against the Western the Western is broke into several Parties the Church of Rome against the Protestants and the Protestants against the Church of Rome and the Protestants are divided among themselves In these Divisions the Church of Rome erects her head and pretends she is the only true and Catholick Church because they are united among themselves But to shew the weakness of this boasting 1. At this rate every particular Church must be the Catholick Church because the Members of every particular Church are united among themselves So in the Church of England her Members and Pastors all subscribing to the Articles of her Communion and professing the same Doctrine Ceremonies and Worship whether they be in Europe or Africa or Asia or America and there is no particular Church that 's constituted by any publick Authority but may boast of this Unity 2. It is not a bare Union of Men that makes a Church a true Church but that Union must have Truth for its Foundation else you know Thieves and Robbers and High-way-men and Pyrates and Buccaneers because they agree among themselves might lay claim to this Title and the most perverse Hereticks because they agree in certain points might say they are the true Church and Heathens and Pagans because they agree in Superstition and in believing a Multitude of Gods might bid fair for this character However 3. The Unity the Church of Rome boasts of is only a pretence for all the World knows the mighty differences that are within her own Bosom of the Scotists and Thomists of the Franciscans and Dominicans of the Jansenists and Jesuits who stick not to call one another Hereticks not to mention the late Divisions betwixt the Disciples of