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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14374	A plea for peace: or A sermon preached in St. Pauls Church in London. Iuly 9. 1637. By Henry Vertue, parson of the parish church of Alhollowes Honey-Lane in London	Vertue, Henry, d. 1660.	1637 (1637)	STC 24691; ESTC S114883	38,111	69

that Christ dwels in us Vbi pax ibi Christus quia Christus pax Ambr. tom 3. Epist 82. saith Saint Ambrose where peace is there Christ is because Christ is peace Hence we may also conclude that the holy Ghost is given to us as the earnest of our inheritance and consequently that we shall have the inheritance it selfe at last for among the fruits of the spirit this is reckoned by the Apostle for one peace and the contrarie variance Gal. 5.22 Gal. 5.20 strife seditions among the works of the flesh Aug. tom 9. in Jean Euang tract 6. And to this purpose Saint Austin tells us Oportere sanctum Spiritum per columbam demonstrari ut intelligat unusquisque si habeat sanctum Spiritum se habere debere cum fratribus veram pacem That it was requisite that the holy Ghost should appeare in the likenesse of a Dove that every man may understand that if he have the holy Ghost he ought to have true peace with the brethren Yea hence we may conclude that God is and will be with us and then what good can we want enjoying him that is the fountaine of all good And of this the holy Apostle gives us assurance Be of one minde 2 Cor. 13.11 live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you But if we give our selves to live in contention and discord woe be to us we are strangers from Christ and have no interest in him we are voyd of the Spirit of God Saint Iude joynes these together These are they that separate themselves Iude 19. sensuall not having the Spirit of God Nay they are such as walk after the flesh and are carnall 1. Cor. 3.3 while there be divisions among you are ye not earnall saith the Apostle And thus wallowing in the works of the flesh among which are reckoned contentions and divisions we must be content to take that which follows that they which do such things Gal. 5 21. shall not inherit the kingdome of God And not onely being factiously disposed and addicted to contention we can have no hope that the God of peace should be with us but also since as Solomon saith Onely by pride men make contentions Prov. 13.10 in respect of which every contentious person is also a proud person and since as Saint Peter saith 1. Pet. 5.5 God resists the proud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he sets himselfe in battell array against him we may well conclude that God will be surely against us and then what safetie can we expect Iam. 3.14 to the end And heare we what Saint Iames saith If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lye not against the truth This wisedome descends not from above but is carnall sensuall divellish for where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evill worke but the wisedome that is from above is first pure then peaceable c. And the fruit of righteousnesse is sowne in peace of them that love peace By which it is manifest that our study to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace may certainly assure us that the wisedome which we have is not carnall sensuall divellish but from God from above and tends to God and to heaven and that the fruit of righteousnesse holinesse here and eternall life hereafter is sowne that is prepared for us and shall be reaped and enjoyed by us and what shall comfort us if not this whereas contrariwise he that lives in contention and strife though he may brag of his Christianity or otherwise boast of his wisedome yet in so doing he glories falsly and lyes against the truth Ambr. tom 4. de Abr. l. 2. c. 6. That of Saint Ambrose being most true of this heavenly wisedome Sapienti pacis est studium imprudenti amicajurgia The wise man studies peace the foole loves brangles As we would then provide for our comfort it mainly concernes us according to this Apostolicall injunction to study unity and peace 2 This study to maintain peace will be availeable to make us fit to serve God acceptably in the duties of his worship now we shall be fit to pray with assurance to be heard and accepted for this is required at our hands by the Apostle to lift up pure hands without wrath Tim. 2.8 and to such prayer assurance is given of speeding If too of you sayes our Saviour Matth. 18.19 shall agree on earth as touching any thing which they shall aske it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven Agreeable to which is that of Saint Cyprian Quic quid simul petitur à cunctis Cypr. epist 57. ad Cornel. in exilio Deus pacis pacificis exhibet Whatsoever is with an unanimous consent prayed for by all the God of peace grants it to those that are peaceably disposed Now we shall be fit to heare the word of God acceptably and profitably for this is also required of us in this respect to lay aside all superfluity of maliciousnesse Iam. 1.21 and so to receive with meeknesse that engrafted word that is able to save our soules Now no lesse shall we be fit to come with comfort to the holy Communion If thou bringest Math. 5 23.24 sayes our Saviour thy gift to the Altar and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee leave thy gift before the Altar and goe thy way first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift But without this peaceable disposition nothing that thou canst doe can bee of any acceptance with God An unblameable life will not stand thee in stead while thou rendest thy selfe from the unity of the Church Quisquis ab Ecclesiâ Cathelicâ fuerit separatus sayes Saint Austin Aug. Epist 15● ad popil f●●tion 〈◊〉 Quantumlibet laudabiliter vivere se existimet hoc sol● scelere quod ab unitate Christi disjunctus est non habebit vitam sed ir● Dei manet super eum Whosoever makes a rent from the Catholike Church how commendably soever he may seeme to himselfe to live for this very wickednesse alone that hee is disjoynted from the unity of Christ he shall not have life but the wrath of God abides upon him The use of the Sacraments will be of no advantage to thee while thou venturest to breake the unity of the Church Aug. tom 10. 〈◊〉 Dom. 〈◊〉 11. Corporalia Sacramenta sayes the same Father Quae portant etiam ab Ecclesia segregati formam possunt exhibere pietatis virtus autem pietatis invisibilis ita in eis non potest esse sicut sensus non sequitur hominis membrum à corpore amputatum Those bodily Sacraments which men separating from the Church doe receive may yeeld a forme of godlinesse but the invisible power of godlinesse can be no more in them then sense can be in the member that is cut off from