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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42051	Omilia eiréniké, or, A thanksgiving sermon for peace abroad with motives to unity at home, especially in matters of religion : preach'd at Hambleden in the county of Bucks on Thursday the second day of December, 1697 / by Francis Gregory ...	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1697 (1697)	Wing G1897; ESTC R39481	9,967	28

anguish And as for Servants they are their Masters Trustees and if they bear a grudge to their Masters Person 't is ten to one but they will falsify their Trust too But where Husbands and Wives are of the same mind and draw the same yoke and in the same way where Parents love their Children and Children love their Parents where Masters are kind to their Servants and Servants chearfully obey their Masters where the inferior Relation doth readily do what the Superior doth prudently require In short when the Hand doth willingly execute what the Head doth wisely contrive and dictate Where the case stands thus such Families are in the ready way and take the right course to thrive But on the other hand if Strifes and Contentions arise and grow in a Family if as our Lord speaks The father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother where Relations who are so near in Blood are at such distance in point of Affection such Families can never expect God's Blessing to make them Prosper nor indeed can they heartily unite any joint Petitions to beg it Such Families are so far from having any hopes to flourish that our Lord hath plainly told us Every house every family divided against it self shall not stand No Strife and Contention are as Gregory Nazianzene well observes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginnings of Dissolution That which best Cements and Supports a Family is mutual Concord and Unity and if so how desirable a Blessing is Peace even in the private Families of Men II. Peace is a Blessing very desirable in the Catholick Church which is the great and only Family which God hath in this lower World St. Paul tells his Christian Converts thus Ye are fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God not as Servants only but as Children too All the sincere Converts of the World all true Believers have the same God for their Father the same Christ for their Brother the same Church for their Mother and if so themselves must needs be Brethren And is not this Fraternity such a near Relation as should incline us to Peace and Unity See that Expression of Abraham to Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee betwixt me and thee for we are Brethren We all pretend to be Travellers towards the heavenly Canaan and if we be such indeed that Counsel which Joseph gave his Brethren doth much concern us See that ye fall not out by the way O remember that God who is the Father of us all is stiled The God of Peace our Blessed Saviour who is our Elder Brother too is stiled The Prince of Peace and he hath given us a fair Intimation that every good Man is and ought to be a Son of peace one inclinable and well disposed to mutual Concord Amity and Agreement to this end did our Lord give his Apostles this Charge Have peace one with another Nay saith St. Paul if it be possible as much as lies in you live peaceably with all men but especially with all Men of the same Religion See how very earnest St. Paul was for this I the prisoner of the Lord beseech you What to do to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace And truly where this Unity of the Spirit is not kept where this Bond of Peace in matters of Religion is once dissolved 't is a clear Evidence that Men are not such Christians as they should be St. Paul plainly told the Men of Corinth so I hear that there are divisions amongst you division about their Teachers One saith I am of Paul another saith I am of Apollo and a third saith I am of Cephas and what doth St. Paul infer from this variety of their Opinions That he tells them Whereas there is amongst you envyings strife and divisions are ye not carnal and walk as men Not as becomes good Christians but like sinful Men. Now much like to this Case of the Church of Corinth is the present Case of the Church of England too for as they were divided about their Preachers so are we as among them one was for Paul another for Apollo and a third for Cephas so among us one is for an Episcopal Preacher another for a Presbyterian a third for an Independent One Man is for those set Forms of Prayer which our very Excellent Liturgy prescribes and I cannot blame him another Man is for extempore Effusions and sure I am that even these also are set and stinted Forms though not to the Speaker himself yet to every other Man that hears them Again one Man is for performing the Duties of our Publick Worship in a Church a place Built and Dedicated to the Service of God alone but another Man is for Worshipping the Great Majesty of Heaven in an homely Barn a place built and designed only for the Civil and Common Uses of men Once more One Man is for our Publick Assemblies which are Established by our Laws another Man is for Conventicles in Private Houses and since these Conventicles have been so very numerous and since so many sorts of Dissenters have resorted to them 't is from the Good Providence of God that these Conventicles have not yet emptied our Churches that these back Ditches have not yet drawn the main Stream quite dry But can the Wisest of men amongst us foresee what the end of our Divisions may prove Sure I am its present Effects are but sad ones for by these Divisions we do prejudice the best Religion in the World we do thereby very much discourage Jews Papists Turks Men of all other Religions from embracing ours For may they not justly say the true way of Worshipping God being but one since there is amongst us Protestants such a diversity of Opinions about it who can assure us which may be the only right one Besides this Difference in Judgment doth naturally produce Difference in Practice too and difference in Practice doth commonly create difference in Affection and when these Differences meet together they are wont to produce Schisms in the Church Seditions in the State and Confusions in both Nay when Differences in matters of Religion ferment and grow high when divided Parties are zealous every one for his own Opinion how oft do they break out into Civil Wars some of them defending their Errors by the Sword which they could never have defended by any other Arguments Now then if these be the usual Consequences of Divisions in matters of Religion how desirable a Blessing must Unity and Peace be in the Church of God III. Peace is a Blessing very desirable in the Civil Societies of Men in Towns and Cities in the Commonwealths and Kingdoms of the World at Home amongst our selves and Abroad with all other Nations too I need not tell you that in Halcyon days when things are