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A10655	A sermon touching the peace and edification of the church preached at the second triennial visitation of the right reverend father in God, Francis Lord Bishop of Peterborough, at Daventry in Northamptonshire, July 12. 1637 / by Edvvard Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1638 (1638)	STC 20931.5; ESTC S4443	27,058	42

commended unto us and so leave you and it to Gods Blessing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Then It is not any kind of Peace which must bee thus pursued Such the things in difference may bee as must be earnestly contended for Iude v. 3. If Peace hinder Edification wee must then build as Nehemiahs servants did with our spirituall Weapons in our hands It must be an edifying but no destroying Peace It hath an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bound it Rom. 12.18 and wee know Id solum possumus quod jure possumus 2. He purposely severeth Peace and Liberty that hee may joyne Peace and Charity In our services to the Church of God wee must ever more looke to what is helpefull to others than to what is lawfull for our selves to part from a little of our owne ground rather than our brothers house should bee unbuilt All things saith the Apostle are lawfull but all things edifie not 3. It is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let us follow peace but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The things which make for peace It is not enough that we have pious affections to the Peace and Edification of the Church as an End but we must put to all our skill and wisedome and cast about for the most proper and seasonable meanes conducing to so good an End For a man may have an indifferent good will to Peace it selfe and yet when it comes to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the meanes for the Edification an yeelding to be built 1 Pet. 2.5 nor onely Immanent Edification a building up of our selves Iude v. 20. but a mutall and transient Edification as iron whetteth iron a considering of one another to provoke unto love and unto good workes Heb. 10.24 7. It must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too It is not enough to desire it to accept it to meet it halfe way to let it in and welcome it when it comes to us But we must Pursue and goe after it If any man refuse Peace so that it flieth from us we must put it to an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and venture our selves for it to a si forte and quantum in nobis if by any meanes we may overtake and apprehend it Rom. 12.18 If any man refuse Edification and thrust away the Grace and Mercy which is preached unto him it must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here too not give him over and to let him alone for desperate but to pursue him still to digge about him and dung him as it is in the Parable Luke 13.8 It may be he will yet bring forth fruit many there are which come into the Vineyard at the last hour We must here put it to a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too if God peradventure wil give him Repentance 2 Tim. 2.25 and in the meane time to shew all meeknesse to all men because we our selves were sometimes foolish and disobedient Tit. 3.2 3. Now lastly unto the substance of this Building there pertaine but these three things A Foundation a Superstruction a Contignation 1. A stable and solid Foundation which is either personall and that is Christ onely 1 Cor. 3.11 or practicall the knowledge whereof is requisite as a ground-worke unto some further end and this againe is twofold Either the Foundation of Theologicall Doctrines upon which they are raised and by which they are to be measured and so the Doctrine of the Apostles and Prophets is called a Foundation Eph. 2.20 or else the Foundation of Salvation whatsoever things are simply and absolutely necessary to the spirituall vitall and salvificall state of a Christian Quae posita ponunt sublata auferunt salutem which have by the Ordination of God a necessary and intrinsecal connexion unto eternal life St Paul gives it us in three words Faith Hope and Love 1. Faith as the primò primum without which no other motions though materially in morall construction good are yet in foro Coeli vitall and salvificall This Faith is contracted into the Creeds of the Church requiring an intellectuall assent of the minde to the Truth and a fiduciall reliance of the heart on the Goodnesse of God in Christ in all those Evangelicall Doctrines for our owne righteousnesse and salvation and thus Faith is by the Ancients often called a Foundation 2. Hope as the Ground and Foundation of all Invocation and spiritual Worship and therefore the Apostle saith of such as destroyed the incommunicable Worship of God that they did not Hold the head Col. 2.18 19. and thus the Lords Prayer containing the adequate object of all our Hopes is called by Turtullian A fundamentall Prayer 3. Love as the Principle of all Obedience and newnesse of living In a Godly sorrow for all sinne past a Godly purpose abrenouncing all sinne in Conscience profession and endeavour of Conversation for the time to come a desire to feare Gods name a delight in his Law a Love of our Brethren a Conscience void of offence towards God and men And so Love is by the Apostle called a Root and Ground Ephes. 3.17 Now the laying of this Foundation aright and causing ignorant men in some measure to understand the mysteries of Religion and Salvation is indeed the master-piece of the wisest Builder and that without the which all our other Sermons to the People will bee little better than lost labour till these Principles be soundly fastened in their Consciences 2. To this Foundation of Faith in Doctrine hope in worship and love in obedience must be joyned a progresse in the Superstruction because something will be ever wanting to the Grace and Knowledge of God in us and in this superedification it will be needfull to observe these two things 1. A due order and disposition for though all the Truths of God are to bee taught yet each in its due place and time according as the strength and growth of our hearers is able to bear As the Scripture was delivered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by pieces and degrees so should it be preached too line upon line precept upon precept It was I think wise counsell that of a learned Cardinal That with vulgar people it were best beginning at the later end of S. Pauls Epistles where he speaks of Duties and then after that to go to the beginnings where he is more profound in Doctrines 2. A due Connexion that we sever not those Doctrines which God hath joyned Not to preach Works without Faith which in the Jewes begate pride and opinion of their own righteousnesse Rom. 10.3 Nor Faith without Works which some Hereticks doing for that the learned observe to have been the cause of the Epistles of Saint Iames and Saint Iohn did thereby cause great scandal and licentious living To preach the Law so as to shew men still upon Repentance a Refuge to the Gospel and so to preach the Gospel as to shew them withall upon their contempt and