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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85985	The blessed peace-maker and Christian reconciler: intended for the healing of all unatural and unchristian divisions, in all relations: according to the purport of that divine oracle, pronounced by the Prince of Peace himself, Matth. 5.9. By Claudius Gilbert, B.D. minister of the Gospel at Limrick.	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?	1658 (1658)	Wing G701; Thomason E939_3; ESTC R202209	119,212	155

due season order and manner within our respective Relations Thus Gods people are bid to plead with their Mother to contend for the faith to admonish one another with mutual watchfulness c. that they may not be partakers of other mens sins but still keeping the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Christ and his Apostles did so in the Jewish Church though exceedingly corrupt till that ceremonial administration of the Lords gracious Covenant gave way to the Evangelical dispensation thereof 3. The evil that Conscience startles at in the Church is either fundamental or circumstantial as to salvation That evil which destroyes the foundation not holding the Head when obstinately retained after all due convictions renders a Person and Society unfit for Christian Communion deservedly who are to be accordingly dealt with Thus Paul withdrew from the Jews obstinately rejecting Christ and separated the Disciples Thus the reformed Churches did orderly protest against Apostate Rome aad separated from them In this case the Heretical Society is the Schismatick for as in Martyrdom so in Schism it s the cause not the suffering that constitutes it Thus when a rotten member contracts an Heretical Gangrene which makes him fall off or to be cut off from the Church he himself is the Schismatick 4. The circumstantial evil which offends any person in the Church is variously considerable in Doctrine Worship and Discipline according to the weight of that Truth it seems to oppose Some are of far greater moment then others and challenge sutable care and carriage Some circumstantials are Indefinite and indifferent in themselves to be regulated by Christian prudence in every Society and meeting as the gesture of the body length of time spent in the exercise c. where in the general Rules of Order Decency Edification and Expediency are still observable Other Circumstantials are definite and parts of Worship Instituted of the Lord as the keeping of the first day of the week for a Christian Sabbath singing of Psalms solemn Prayer c. which are not indifferent but necessary to be observed according to Scripture Rule He that scruples any thing about such should use the best means of Information private and publike with much humility and sobriety diligence and teachableness If after all he cannot be satisfied he may forbear that particular thing which his conscience cannot meddle with still keeping Communion in the rest This is the Apostles Doctrine as far as we have attained let us walk by the same Rule and mind the same thing if any be otherwise minded the Lord will reveal that unto him also Hast thou faith have it to thy self in such a case that thou maiest give no offence to others 5. If any Christian should find the Church whereof he is a Member growing worse daily and not admitting of any advice help for amendment but obstinately refusing to rectifie what is palpably evil such a man is to be very cautious in that case that in desiring leave to depart to some other society where he may serve God with purity and freedom that all proceedings therein may appear to flow from cordiall Love to Christ to his Ordinances and people with all due respects to those also from whom he departs still owning what ever appears of good in them with hearty grief for what is amiss that he may avoid the stigmatical Brand of a schismatick in the performance of his duty 6. Schism from the Church is either universal or particular Universal when Persons divide from all Christian Societies and People that do not own their particular way Such was the separation of the Donatists besides that of the Arrians Meletians Acesians Circumcellians and many others divers whereof were also heretical Such is the Schism of the Romish Church now apostatized from the very foundations of Christianity which they verbally profess but collaterally and effectively destroy and renounce by their Antichristian additions and Detractions Traditions and Corruptions A particular Schism is a sinfull division from some particular Church whereto a Christian had his Relation or from some Member or Members thereof The former is a Schism from the Body this later in the Body a sad instance whereof appeared in the Church at Corinth which Paul sharply reproves and prescribes a fit cure unto again and again The grudgings and Rudiments of this sad distemper bewrayed themselves by divers Symptoms also in most of the Christian Churches even in Apostolical daies and the succeeding Primitive Times witness the many cautions and hints given in their Epistles and the Relations of Ecclesiastical Records The sad experiences of the Reformed Churches in former and later Seasons especially in these Nations afford numerous Instances thereof sufficiently deplored Vse 2. This speaks conviction to all persons estranged from Peace Is Peace so blessed a thing then should it not sharply reprove multitudes of men As 1. The Ignorant that know it not and will not learn This is the dreadfull brand of the children of wrath the way of Peace they have not known An evil Peace they are acquainted with but the Peace of God they are strangers to Their Peace in sin is wofull presumption which feeds them with deceitfull hopes Quick-sighted they may be in carnal things but they are quiet blind in spiritual matters Christ wept sorely upon such a people wishing they had known the things of their Peace when alas they were hid from their eyes 2. The Negligent that mind it not but are pleasing themselves on the bed of carnal security laying their head on the devils cushion Such Laish like sleep securely in their sluggish course till they awake in the midst of Hellish flames Like Moab and Edom they settle on their lees till Divine wrath do sweep them away Their sleepy Peace feeds them with specious dreams of pleasure profit and preferment till they be rowzed up by the Messenger of Eternity They embrace a cloud in stead of Juno they are of Gallios spirit not caring for the things of their Peace Their sleepy disease is so much the sadder because so sensless 3. The scornfull that own it not but reject and disdain it such can make a Jea● of war and of Peace and turn all things of the greatest weight into a fond jest Such fools make a mock at Sin and at Peace too Their Pregnancy of Parts serves them for a Racket to toss the Ball of a wanton witt from one to another like the mad fellow that throws fire-brands in his jovial mode saying still am not I in sport such as thus abuse Gods Peace in jest are like to go to Hell in earnest far enough from Peace This is the high road to Satans Kingdom wherein many gallop in a full career The seat of the scornfull is the highest degree of advancement in the devils University whereto many ungodly sinners attain per saltum by a trick of youthfull wit

also called the last day the great day of the Lord that day known to the Lord. This solemn Day hath two eminent parts also the Morning and the Evening thereof 1. The first part is a cloudy stormy morning like the Reign of David full of Civil and Forraign Wars attended with varieties of troubles and discords A time it s of strong delusions and direfull divisions of wofull defections and renewed provocations from men though of special Illuminations and Salvations from God Secondly The latter part and Evening thereof is like to be of a various Mixture attended with strange Revolutions in the shaking of Nations and overturning of all things untill Christ come into his Right to clear up all and fill his house with Glory In the Evening time it shall be Light when in natural Probabilities all things incline rather towards midnight The Zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall do this that he may be known to be the Prince of Peace both as King of Nations and as King of Saints Then shall the Lord be one and his Name one when he gives them one Heart and one Way that they may serve him with one Lip and shoulder The Lord will thus gradually accomplish all those precious and glorious Promises which have a special Aspect on these latter dayes concerning the Propagation Settlement and Glory of the Kingdom of Christ Should not all this be a wonderfull encouragement to every Christian to have the honor and the happiness of being a faithfull and succesfull Instrument therein The Lord loves to act by men and means though he needs them not and never ties himself to them He bids his people be very active and self-denying in this very season that by restoring health and cure to them he may therewith reveal the abundance of Truth and Peace When Christ is owned and served thus as our Melchizedek our King of Righteousness he will soon appear to be King of Salem a King of Peace and settle his People in his Jerusalem the vision of Peace Thus the very season gives us a strong Invitation to Peace-making that we may be found faithfull Attendants on his Spirit Word and Providence in the diligent use of all fit means through his gracious Help Should not true Patriots learn and improve that famous Wisdom of the men of Issachar who so well understood the times of Gods mercy and what Israel ought to do therein that all their Brethren were at their Command for the advancing of Christs Interest and the common Good A curious search of things and times unrevealed to us is forbid and condemned But an industrious studying of Things and Times that we may perform our Duty therein to the promoting of the Lords Promises in compliance with all his Precepts doth become all in this signal season that bear a good will to him and his work Secondly The Work of Reformation is a singular Incitement to this blessed Peace-making The latter dayes are the special Season of this special Work The Gospel Time is eminently called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Time of Reformation the proper Nick and Juncture of time for the perrectification the through redress of all things amiss This latter part thereof challenges this Work of Reformation in a peculiar way as Reformation challenges Peace-making Our solemn Covenants and Engagements so frequently renewed for Reformation before God and Men do press us thereto Our Christian Profession and the very Name of all Christian Churches recovered out of the Egyptian Sodom of Antichristian Romish Pollutions require justly of us further Reformation How much hath been declared by all sorts of Persons to express their Duty and excite each other to Reformation of all things amiss in Church and State in publique and private will stand on Record to Eternity though it be too much forgotten even of the best Peace-making is still a chief part thereof and a chief help thereto Should it not quicken our designs and delights our desires and Labors to the most industrious pursuance of it Is not the absence and estrangement from Peace the great evil of these dayes Are not our discords and disorders the Bane and Poison the sores and diseases the ruin and Pest of all ranks among us Are not our jars and unchrstian Wranglings a continual eye-sore to God and good Men Do not those unnatural Dissents and uncivil Contentions blast our budding hopes of all temporal and spiritual Good threaning destruction to all our Comforts Doth it not concern all to reform such abuses as fast and as far as they can possibly Shall we not be charged as wilfull self-destroyers if we neglect it Will not all Nations cry out justly on us Shall we not be the scorn and mirth of all evil men and devils the sorrow of all good men and Angels Secondly Is not Peace-making as great a furtherance to Reformation Is not this the sure sweet and speedy way to unite our strength and to manage it to the best advantage for good against evil at home and abroad in all Civil and Spiritual Regards Do not sinfull dissents distract our minds disaffect our hearts disable our hands and divide our strength from the Lords great Work Doth it not fare with us when divided asunder as it did with Sciurus his Arrows easily broken one after another Is not an orderly uniting of Gods people as strong and durable a means of preservation in every respect as that Bundle of Arrows which the said Sciurus gave unto his sons to let them understand the good of Peace and the evil of War This Cable-roap thus orderly twisted by united strength is of lasting use if you do but once take it into pieces how weak doth it become Two are better then one and a three-fold Cord is not easily broken said the wise Man by good experience His Kingdom the Throne and the Type of Christ flourished in a triumphant way whilst Princes and people kept close to their God and to each other in all his wayes according to his word As soon and as fast they disjoyned and disordered themselves sin and sorrow increased on them to their total and final destruction Peruse all Records sacred and humane for a further Illustration of this Do not Reformers need all possible help from one another in the cause of Christ and of the Publique Is not their work maligned and opposed by multitudes of enraged enemies both humane and diabolical Are they not weak few and inconsiderable in Comparison of the adverse party Do they not still carry in their bosoms Legions of Traitors of rebellious Lusts that are still plotting and stirring against the Lord Christ and his gracious Work Do they not still find in the midst of them very many back friends and counterfeit Spies as Nehemias time gave sad experience that are still Laboring to weaken and undo them Is not this now the case among all Protestants and all Reformers as in Europe