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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33201	A persuasive to peaceableness and obedience, seasonable and proper for these times being a sermon preached at Bury Saint Edmunds in Suffolk, on July 29, 1683, in the time of the assizes held there / by Nicholas Clagett ...	Clagett, Nicholas, 1654-1727.	1683 (1683)	Wing C4371; ESTC R108	23,636	57

A PERSUASIVE TO Peaceableness and Obedience Seasonable and proper for These Times BEING A SERMON Preached at Bury Saint Edmunds in Suffolk on July 29 1683 in the Time of the Assizes held there By NICHOLAS CLAGETT M. A. Preacher at St. Maries in St. Edmunds-Bury LONDON Printed for John Marston in Bury St Edmunds and are to be sold by W. Kettilby at the Bishops Head in S. Paul's Church-yard 1683. To the Right Honourable William Mountague Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer And To the Honourable Sir Richard Holloway Knight one of the Kings Serjeants at Law Justices of Assize in the Norfolk Circuit May it please your Lordships THe Age abounds with that variety of Excellent Discourses on all Subjects that I could willingly have supprest mine However had there been any thing in this discourse more than the Seasonable and Honest Design of it to recommend it to that good opinion Your Lordships were pleased to entertain of it I could with the less reluctance have complyed with the first intimation of Your Lordships pleasure and the more readily have consented to its Publication Not that I was backward to print a discourse Honour'd with Your Lordships Approbation believing it could come to the view of any more Judicious than your Lordships but because I Fear there are Those who will be less Favourable Your Lordships Affection to the Sutableness of my Subject having possest You with too kind an opinion of its Management too It is a very good thing to Endeavour the Promotion of Peace and Quiet in the world and I wish with all my heart it had been in my power to have handled a Subject of this nature as it deserves especially at such a Time when it appears plainly what a disturbance to the Government the Factious spirits of those men have been who love to meddle with things that do not belong to them If what I had the Honour to discourse before Your Lordships may in any respect help to Allay this Turbulent Humour and to Engage men for the Future to mind their own Affairs only and live peaceably I shall think my self Happy to have gained my Design in the Preaching of it But as for the Exposing it thus Publickly to the Deliberate Censure of others nothing can excuse so Hazardous an Attempt but that Obedience to my Superiors which Your Lordships may justly challenge as a debt due to your Lordships from Your Lordships Most humble Servant Nicholas Claget 1 Thess IV. 11. And that ye study to be quiet and to do your own business THe Doctrine of Peace is proper enough to be Preacht at all Times The Apostle in the first Age of the Gospel thought fit frequently to perswade his new Converts to it but I think it never more needed to be Taught and Inculcated than in our dayes wherein Parties and Dissentions Factions and Seditions Conspiracies and Treasons make no little noise in the world Saint Paul was a great Scholar and well versed and studied in all parts of Learning and yet we see his Advice to his followers was not to put them upon the study of Controversy but of Peaceableness It is thought he was at the University of Athens when he wrote this Epistle to the Thessalonians and being there amongst the busie Students of the Arts and Sciences he sends his Advice to the Scholars under his instruction what sort of Students he would have them to be and his counsel to them is to study to be quiet And the Apostle seems to have given this precept with regard to the great fault of the people all thereabouts and to have ●itted his doctrinal Advice for the bringing them off from it For the Greeks generally were a sort of people that were given to a soft and idle way of life and went about Scoffing and Tatling and according to the account of them which we have in the Acts took delight and spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or hear some new thing Acts. 17.21 The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifies the endeavouring after a thing with some vehement desire and care and a kind of Ambition it is Englished here studying for quietness is so excellent a thing as to be worthy of our ambition and study But is there any difficulty in this matter is it a hard business to be quiet and still or must it cost us so much trouble to avoid the giving others any Indeed the Apostle doth well advise us to study quiet as a thing which we cannot very easily compass and we must take some care and pains with our selves before we can attain this skill the way hereunto lying through a great many parts and duties of Religion that are not suted to the corrupt dispositions of men For there are several lusts to be subdued in order to it from them St. James tells us come Wars and Contentions Jam. 4.1 There are Passions and inordinate Desires to be ruled and besides there is a busie Devil too that stirs about and always puts in for the furthering of Discord and Confusion where he can do it with advantage and there are various incident occasions of Animosity and Contention which we meet withal in a bad World Finally we may happen to fail of gaining the point with others though we study it to the utmost our selves in which case the best that we can do is what is required of us and is all that is expected the Apostle himself exhorting us to no more than this as much as in us lies to live peaceably with all Men Rom. 12.18 And hence what the Apostle exhorts us to as requiring Care and Pains to be studied for the Psalmist in like manner persuades us to as a thing not to be found without seeking for Seek Peace and pursue it Psal 34.14 Which two expressions put together do import how much is to be done for the sake of Quietness Study to be quiet and to do your own business In which words the Apostle advises us to two things to the latter in order to the former Be careful to live quietly and that you may continue so to do mind your own business as you should do and be duly intent upon those things which concern your particular Condition and Vocation in the World and then others about you your Neighbours and the Government will be in less danger of receiving any trouble or disturbance from you For the Apostle persuades us here to the study of Quiet as we are Neighbours and as we are Subjects and would have us peaceable men as considered standing in both those Relations though I conceive he principally respects here the Political quiet wishing and begging that all who are called Christians would do nothing against that Wherefore designing from the Apostles advice to discourse of quiet in humane Life I shall persuade men to live peaceably amongst themselves in common Conversation and to be quiet Subjects under the Government First We are to