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A94139 The soveraignes desire peace: the subjectes dutie obedience. By Thomas Swadlin. Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670. 1643 (1643) Wing S6227; Thomason E88_22; ESTC R209873 38,143 43

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it But besides this Ipse dixit He hath said it there is also an Ipse jussit Psa 50.1 Matth. he hath ●ommanded it Call upon me Yes and an Ipse increpuit He hath chid the neglect of it Why sleepe ye Arise and pray that yee enter not into temptation In a word there is a double necessitie to pray 1. Necessitas indigentiae an absolute necessitie 2. Necessitas praecepti a respective necessitie God hath comm●nded it so it is absolute we cannot be supplyed without it so it is respective There is a Text for this too yee fight and warre and get nothing because yee us kenot Iac. 4.2 Now if ye● will adde to this necessitie by God imposed the Vrility to us redounding the Obligation is not so strong but the invitation is as sweete and while that bidds us this will wooe us to pray It is Saint Augustines note Ille quod nos hortatur propter nos hortatur De verb. Do. Ser. when God bidds us pray it is for our owne profit Prayer is like sowing of Corne and that promises increase at h●●vest like a bill of Adventure and that brings a rich exchange It is the very Ship that transports and returnes cloathing for the back food for the belly gold for the p●rse and grace for the Soule So that Father againe precatio ascendit misericordia descendit Prayer is our Factor for Gods Mercy It travailes never without a saving Voyage and returnes most commonly richly laden Christ affirmes it Joan ● Whatsoever yee shall aske the Father in my Name c. If it bee health prayer is Medi●amentum probatum an approved Medicine so Sa●nt Iames The prayer of Faith shall save the sicke Iac. 5. If it be favour with Princes prayer insinuates safest and soonest Neh. 1. So Nehemiah got favour in the sight of that great man If it be victory in Warre prayer is the surest Enginer you know how Israel prevaild against Amalecke it was when Moses held up to stop the execution of Gods vengeance prayer is the best Advocate so Moses held Gods hands that his wrath could not wax hot against the Children of Israel xo 32.11 If it be prevalence with God Oratio hominis est res omnipotentissima saies Luth. though Hyperbolically yet devoutly prayer is that Omnipotency which wrestles with God and overcomes him If it be peace betweene kingdome and kingdome prayer is the best Councellor both to project it and obtaine it It was not the wisedome it was not the policy it was the pietie of the Parliament that obtained peace betweene England and Scotland and m●y this dayes piety obtaine peace at home in England and abroad in Jreland But alasse p●lic we have little hope of it since our piety it selfe is not at peace some mens pietie is for common prayers and that which other men call their pietie is I feare me altogether impietie against common prayers What will ye judge of that mans piety which said our common prayer book is unrighteous ungodly Idolatrous blasphemous diabolicall and what of that mans who said maintaine this booke but mistake me not I doe not meane That damned devillish Common prayer booke used by none but damned Priests surely if this were zeale it wanted a great deale of wisdome and piety both to make it a right zeale What doe these men meane doe they think Common prayer is unlawfull They cannot thinke so if they thinke fairely either of the Old or New Testament For in the Old Testament God by himselfe and his Prophets prescribed a set forme of prayer ●um 6 ●2 23 c so to Aaron and his sonnes he gives a charge and in that charge forbidds them to blesse the people as their owne fancie lead them and enjoynes them to blesse them after this very prescription and no otherwise The Lord blesse thee and keepe thee ●eut 16.3 15. ●os 14.2 c. And so againe Thou shalt say before the Lord thy God Thus c. And so againe by the Prophet Hosea Take with you words And in the New Testament St. Tim. 2.1 Paul that great Apostle of the Gentiles commands Timothy thus I exhort that first of all prayers be made for all men Mark you they must be made i. e. There must be set formes of prayer and what Saint Paul enjoynes here by precept Cor. 12. hee does elsewhere by patterne He prayes thrice against the same infirmity and questionlesse too he used the same words and so did his and our blessed Master Iesus Christ He prayd and said the same words thrice ●atth 26.39 40. Mat. 6 9. O my Father if it be c. and as he used a set forme of prayer himselfe So He hath enjoyned us a set forme of prayer too saying pray yee thus Our Father which c. And this prayer was ever had in veneration and so was a common and set forme of prayer only in this last age of the world some peevish people have excommunicat●d the one and the other Sure I am that mighty learned man Master Calvine hath given a mighty commendations to our Common-prayer-Booke when he sayes Non licet It is not lawfull for our Pastors or They may not in their functions any way desert or depart from them It is in his letter to the then Lord protector when we had in use no prayers but our Common prayers no religion but our 39 Articles Yet then God to shew how well he was pleased with our Religion and Common prayers he gave Queen Elizabeth many personall and this Kingdome one publike deliverance viz. 88. and so King Iames 1605. Our Common prayers obtained the best of blessings then and our Common prayers will obtaine the best of blessings now Peace And that is Donum Excellentissimum the most excellent gift Part 2 that here David teaches us to pray for pray for the peace And this is my second consideration And here I shall inquire 1 Quidpax what peace is and 2 the Quare impedit by what persons peace is hindred 1a 2ae and 3 Quo jure how peace may be maintained when it is once obtained And first What is peace Peace in the proper acception of the word is no more then an Acquiescence and cessation from publike Hostility so it is Pax forensis peace abroad and from private enmity so it is pax domestica peace at home But the word here comprises all sublunarie and worldly blessings deliverance from the sword and victory in battell deliverance from famine and plenty of victuals deliverance from Pestilence and health in our houses for so long ●s the sword is brandishing no peace in our borders so long as famine is stirring no peace in our bowels so long as the plague is reigning no pe●ce in our bodies and therefore pray we Give peace in our time O Lord even the peace of health from the plague and the peace of fulnesse from the famine and the peace of
quietnesse from the sword such an excellent thing is peace that it includes all worldly blessings Nay I dare say it is so excellent that it includes all divine blessings too For as there is Pax temporis the peace of time which is when our swords are sheathed and turned into Mattocks so there is Pax pectoris the peace of conscience which we have when sinne is pardoned and pax numinis the peace of God which we obtaine when Satan is conquered all which God grant us through Iesus Christ Amen In a word peace is either First Eternall which we have in hope Rom. 5.1 and must wait for the fruition of it till the next life or Secondly Internall which we get by faith in Iesus Christ or Thirdly Externall and this in a divine sense is a mutuall consent when all Preachsers preach one holy truth and all Beleevers professe one holy faith that faith and this truth meeting in one Iesus Christ and morally it is this A wishing love within and a working love without when there is no grudging no heart-burning within when there is no brawling nor bloodsheding without for which let us pray Pe●ce in our time O Lord. So excellent a thing is peace that as by the Wine-presse many Grapes are pressed into one cup that as in the kneading tub many grains are made into one loafe that as in the field many sheep are put into one fold that as in the wombe many members are united into one body that as in a Fabrick many stones are cemented into one building so by peace and peace onely are many Saints made united cemented and builded into one Church pray we therefore Peace in our time O Lord. For as those Grapes that are ungathered and come not to the wine-presse the Birds of the ayre eat them as the eares that are ungleaned and come not to the barne the Beasts of the field devoure them as the Sheepe that straggle in the field and come not to the fold the Foxe worries them as the arme that is cut from the body rottennesse and putrefaction corrupt it as the stone that is shaken and rent from the building it makes a deformity in the building so those Christians that are separated from the communion of Saints those men that make a fraction in a society that make a commotion in a Common-wealth the Devill that fowle of the aire that beast of the field that Fox of hell eats worries and devoures them pray we therefore Peace in our time O Lord. For what safety hath the sheep that strayes from the fold what strength hath the arme that is parted from the body what beauty hath the stone that is scattered from the building what sweetnesse hath the Grape that is withered from the Vine Iust so much sweetnesse beauty strength and safety hath that Christian hath that man that divides himselfe from the ●●ity of the Church from the unity of the State that breaks the bond of peace pray we therefore Peace in our time O Lord. So excellent a thing is Peace Zach. 8.16 Luc. 10.5 2 Cor. 13.11 c. that God in the Law commands it that Christ in the Gospell commends it that S. Paul in all his Epistles not one that I remember excepted exhorts it Rom. 12.18 1 Cor. 1.3 that God is called the Father of peace 1 Cor. 14 33. that Christ is called the King and Prince of peace Isay 9.6 Heb. 7.2 that the holy Ghost is called the Spirit of peace Mat. 5.9 Gal. 5.22 that the Saints are called the children of peace Iohn 13.35 that the holy Trinity promises to crowne it with the fatnesse of the earth and the dew of heaven Rom. 14 17. And now my beloved would you obey the law or enjoy the Gospell would you have God to be your Father Christ your Saviour or the holy Ghost your Comforter and the Saints your Companions Would you see many dayes and inherit the earth and enjoy heaven then pray Peace in our time O Lord. Peace is the onely Sunne that can disperse the Clouds of Schisme and Faction in the Church whereby we may all keepe the unity of the Spirit Peace is the onely Sunne that can expell all mists and fogs of quarrels and contentions in the State that we may all be happy and joyfull living like brethren in unity pray we therefore Peace in our time O Lord. Peace is the onely Key to lock warre out of our walles and let quietnesse into our borders and keepe the doore so fast that no headstrong Iehu shall open by violence that no cunning Ieroboam shall shut by subtilty the key of David pray we therefore Peace in our time O Lord. Peace is the onely heart in our body that can expell the sanguine humour of revenge and the melancholy distempers of revolt and conserve in Temperance the state of our body politick and the state of his body mysticall For if peace be gone the Spirit is gone for he is the Spirit of peace and if the Spirit be gone Christ is gone with him for nunquam divelluntur they are never asunder He is the Prince of peace and if Christ be gone God the Father is gone too and how miserable that Church or State is ●●om whom the blessed Trinity is departed Father Sonne and holy Ghost judge your selves I pray God this be not our case now and that it may not pray you too Peace in our time O Lord. Peace is the onely spring in the year to blow out the malice of cold blood in Winter and to keepe out the anger of hot blood in Summer that the greennesse and tranquillity may ever flourish in a Church and kingdome and that they may ever flourish in this Church and State pray we Peace in our time O God Peace is the onely vertue that S. Paul joynes with grace in all his Epistles Grace and Peace q. d. you shall never have grace unlesse you will entertaine Peace It was the speech of disordered spirits that said Non pacem petimus superi ●●●e gentibus iram We beg not peace we long for warres for Nulla salus bello no good can come from warre Nulla fides pietasque viris qui eastr● sequuntur no piety no fidelity in that people that delight in warre and love to bathe their swords with the blood of men Omnia pace vigent we can never so earnestly pray for grace as in the time of peace faith cannot be wrought by the sword heresies will not be consumed with Faggots and those Disciples that would have fire from Heaven to consume the Samaritans because they would not entertaine their Master Christ told them Luc. 9.55 they knew not of wh●t spirit they were of If you earnestly desire grace ●●ay for peace peace not onely with God but also with man For so long as thou art in malice with man thou canst not be at peace with God 1 Joan. 3.14 For the best signe of peace with God is to