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A63783	Truth will out a sermon preached on the 20th of June, 1683, upon the discovery of the new plot / by a presbyter of the Church of England.	Presbyter of the Church of England.	1683 (1683)	Wing T3167; ESTC R29563	25,780	36

turned to dust this will quiet you The Ninth Consider the life of heaven THere is and will be perfect agreement there We are here as Bees flying up and down from flower to flower all day but at night they come all into the same Hive That is a place where Luther and Zuinglius will well agree Shall not we whom God from all eternity hath ordained to live co-heirs in heaven to joyn together in praises there agree together here on earth CHAP. III. Joyning graces 1. Wisdom THe deepest seas are the most calm so men of the deepest judgments are most quiet A man of understanding is of an excellent spirit Prov. 17.27 or thus is of a cool spirit for so the word signifies his spirit is not heat with passion there is a cool dew of examination and deliberation upon his spirit he weighs the circumstances consequences and issues of things he orders and disposes of things so as jarrs contradictions and oppositions are prevented The wisdom that is from above is pure peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated James 3.17 Reason and Wisdom have a majesty in them and will force reverence Let passion reverence the presence of Reason sayes Basil as children doing things unseemly are afraid of the presence of men of worth 2. Faith 1. THis unites us to Christ and God and in them to one another 2. Faith commits all causes all fears injuries to God 3. Faith lays hold upon and improves those gracious promises that God hath made to his Churches for union Faith sues out the Bond. 4. Faith is able to descry the issue of troubles and afflictions Though Sense sayes It will not be Reason It cannot be yet Faith gets above and sayes It shall be I descry land and thus it quits all in the soul all being quiet there the turbulent motions that are in our spirits one towards another are soon quieted 3. Humility COloss 3.12 Put on as the elect of God bowels of mercies kindness humbleness of mind Ephes 4.2 With all lowliness and meekness and long-suffering forbearing one another in love endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Philip. 2.3 Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better then himself We may say of Humility as Tertullus Acts 24. said of Felix By thee we enjoy great quietness An humble heart looks upon every truth of God as infinitely above it self therefore it is willing to receive it from any a child may lead it Esa 11.6 One Baldassar a German Divine writing to Oecolampadius hath this notable expression Let the Word of the Lord come let it come and we will put under six hundred necks if we had them Such a disposition as this would make much for peace Esa 32.18 19. we have a promise that the people of God should dwell in a peaceable habitation and in quiet resting places and the City shall be low in a low place When the heart lyes lowest it is quietest 4. Self-denyal THe joynts in the body cannot joyn but one part must be hollow and give way to the other Condescention of one to another is a principal thing in friendship Phil. 2. the example of Christ emptying himself and making himself to be of no reputation is set before us as an argument for our union that therefore we should do nothing through strife be like minded having the same love and be of one accord and one mind It is indifferent to a heart emptyed of Self whether it conquers or be conquered so Truth may triumph In other conflicts the Conquerour hath the honour and the conquered is disgraced but in the conflict for truth both conquered and conquerour are honourable the mercy is the greater to him that is conquered but he must have a self-denying heart to make him think so 5. Patience THe Olive the Emblem of Peace will continue green though overflown by the waters for a long time together After Noah had been so long in the Ark the Dove brought an Olive leaf in her mouth to him It may be an emblem of Patience as well as Peace Patience and Peaceableness are near akin Ephes 4.2 3. Long-suffering is amongst the graces where the unity of the spirit is to be kept in the bond of peace There is a notable story I find in the lives of the German Divines One Vitus Theodorus a Divine sends to advise with Melancthon what he should do when Osiander preached against him Melancthon writes to him and beseeches him for the love of God yea charges him that he should not answer Osiander again but that he should hold his peace and behave himself as if he heard nothing Vitus Theodorus writes back again This was very hard yet he would obey Let not men be too hasty to oppose oppositions but let them go on patiently in a constant way resolving to bear what they meet with and God at length will make their righteousness break forth as the light Confute evil reports by thy life He that knows not to bear calumnies reproaches injuries he knows not how to live saies Chytraeus another German Divine 6. Joy in the Holy Ghost ROm. 14.17 The Kingdom of Heaven is righteousness peace joy in the Holy Ghost This grace in the heart puts a grace upon all a mans conversation it makes it lovely and amiable The beams of the Sun shining upon the fire will put it out The beams of this spiritual Joy will put out the fire of our passions 7. Meekness Gentleness MIlk quenches Wild-fire Oyle says Luther quenches Lime which water sets on fire Opposition will heat will fire men when meekness and gentleness will still and quench all Cicero says Sweetness in speech and carriage is that which seasons friendship severity in every thing and sadness must not be among friends in their converse such a kind of carriage may have a seeming gravity but friendship must have a remisness it must be more free and sweet disposed to all mildness and easiness Ephes 4.2 3. Meekness comes in as a special grace for peace and unity so Col. 3.12 8. Love THat is the special uniting grace Faith indeed hath the preheminence in our union with Christ our head but Love is the Grace that Unites the Members 1 Corinth 13. the Apostle shews many of his Fruits of this Grace all tending to Union and Peace It suffers long it envies not it is not puffed up it behaves not it self unseemly it seeketh not her own it is not easily provoked thinketh no evil beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things Bearing all things and Enduring all things seem to be the same therefore some would have it it covereth all things for so the word also signifies but there is a greater elegancy in it in the Translation Beareth all things it is like the cross main Beam in a House supporting the whole Building and were it not for some who have the

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Suppose thou canst not be satisfied in their godliness yet the gifts of the Spirit of God that are in them should cause some kind of closing common gifts are of a middle nature between nature and grace as the spirits of men are neither of the same nature with the soul nor of the body but between both and serve to unite the soul and body together which otherwise are of natures very different The common gifts that men who are not yet sanctified have may and should cause some union between the godly and them while they live in this world so far as to be useful one to another in what God hath given them The second joyning Consideration Let us consider how far we can agree WE differ thus and thus but what do we agree in do we not agree in things enough wherein we may all the dayes of our lives spend all the strength we have in glorifying God together Many men are of such spirits as they love to be altogether busied about their brethrens differences their discourse their pens and all their wayes are about these and that not to heal them but rather to widen them You shall 〈◊〉 hear them speak of or meddle with their agreements their ●●●ength is not bent to heighten and strengthen them if at 〈◊〉 time they do take notice of their agreements it is to ●●ke advantage of them to render their disagreements the ●ore odious or to strengthen themselves in what they ●●ffer from them they desire to get in men and to get from ●●em only to serve their own turns upon them this is an ●vil spirit No marvel therefore though some be so loth to ●iscover to them how near they can come to them Pliny tells us of Apelles that drawing the face of Antiochus the King who had but one eye that he might hide this deformity he devised to paint him turning his visage a little away so he shewed but the one side of his face and from him says Pliny came the invention first of concealing the defects and blemishes of the Visage But the Painters of our time are quite in another way if there be any deformity or defect on any side they will be sure to paint that side in all the lineaments of it that must be set forth fully to the View of all men yea if it may be made to look more ugly and monstrous then it is all the skill they have shall be improved to do it But my Beloved this ought not to be God doth not so with us he takes notice of the good of his Children but conceals their evil There was but one good word in Sarahs speech to Abraham Gen. 18.12 she called him Lord the speech otherwise was a speech of unbelief yet the Holy Ghost speaking afterwards of her in reference to that speech 1. Pet. 3.6 conceals all the evil and mentions only that reverend title s●● gave to her Husband commending her for it Thus should we do had we peacable hearts thus we would do All the good of our Brethren we would improve to the uttermost and what is evil so far as with a good Concience we might and no farther we would conceal When I shall see this temper in mens Spirits I shall hope there will be peace The third joyning Consideration Let us consider of mans Temper Spirits Temptations Education Years Gifts THere must be a due consideration of all these and we must indulge something to them all This would allay much strife as we read Numb 31.23 Every thing that may abide the fire ye shall make go thorough the fire and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go thorough the water We must deal with every man according to his temper Some men are by their complexions of a more harsh and rugged temper then others Consider what is the best way of dealing with such in the main they are faithful and useful they will joyn with you there and spend their lives for you if the harshness of their natures cause some excrescencies unpleasing carriages consider their tempers though no evil in them is to be justified yet deal tenderly with them indulge them what lawfully you may Some mens spirits though upright to God and you yet they have a fervor in them that is not qualified with that wisdom meekness humility as they ought do not presently take these advantages against them that they in their heat may perhaps give you do not fly upon them as if those unjustifiable expressions that come from them came from a spirit of malignity You know the man and the manner of his communication pass by weaknesses accept of uprightness Some mens temptations are very strong it may be their hearts are pressed with disappointments it may be they are pricked with the want of many comforts you have they have family-temptations and personal temptations that you are free from you do not know what you might do if you were under the like temptations Bless God that you are delivered from them but do not add to your brethrens affliction by taking advantages against them but according to the rule of the Apostle Gal. 6.1 If a man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Bear ye one anothers burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ Consider their education some all their days have lived in wicked families they never were acquainted with the society of the Saints with that way of Godliness that have the most strictness and power in it You must not deal with them for all things you see amiss in them in the same way you would deal with such who have had godly education who have had acquaintance with the most strict and powerful wayes of godliness but now manifest a spirit against them Consider mens years old age looks for respect and justly especially such as have gone thorough the brunt and suffered much for your good though some infirmities should break forth that are incident to old age we must cover and pass by what we can not forgetting that reverent respect that is due to the heary head found in the way of godliness Consider mens gifts it may be they are not able to rise to your height to understand what you do thank God for your strength but be not angry with your brother because he is weaker This was one of the arguments for peace that Constantine in that forementioned Letter of his to Alexander and Arius used we are not in all things like minded neither have we all the same nature and gift ingrafted in us The fourth joyning Consideration What we get by contention will never quit cost A Merchant thinks it an ill venture if when he casts up his accounts he finds the charge of his voyage rises to more then his incomes If thou hast so much command of thy spirit if thou canst so far overcome thy passions