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An Expedient for peace amongst Christians. The second part grounded on the impossibility of their agreement in matters of religion : and further enlarged in a discourse of church and state : wherein a new ecclesiastical administration is exhibited.
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differing Opinions and differing Interests the multitude of Ceremonies and Traditions the various Forms of Worship and Scenes of Government and how fond every Nation and Party nay every individual Man is of his own Way It will seem a very difficult Thing to Extricate and free it from so great a Bondage but the greater the Work the more worthy the Author and more Glory to God. Pharoah kept the Israelites long in Bondage and was loth to let them go reaping great Advantages by them as some do by the Gospel But when the God of Heaven called for and demanded them he was forced to restore him his Heritage and his Chosen Christ is now calling for his Gospel and his Saints and God for his Jews his antient People and Inheritance and They will shake the Heavens and Earth but they will have them For by Fire and by Sword will they plead with all Flesh and the Slain of the Lord shall be many The God of Pleaven has already begun to shake the Nations and is about to fulfil all his Promises made to the Jews and Gentiles by the Mouth of all his Prophets Behold saith he Isa 66 and the 12. I will extend Peace to her like a River and the Glory of the Gentiles like a flowing Stream Now what can be liker to a flowing Stream than these Angeli Evangelizantes These Gospel Angels which by a constant Flux and Reflux from the Heart of each Nation will fill the Earth full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea No dry or barren Corners shall escape watering from these Fountains and no dark Recesses the Rays of their Light. But Poor Homuncio I fall under the Weight being not able to describe the Advantages of this Oeconomie I must again call the Prophet to my Assistance in that Pathetick Description of this Temple of Peace this new Jerusalem cap. 65. ver 17. For behold I create a New Heavens and a New Earth and the former shall not be remembred or come into mind But be you glad and rejoyce for ever in that which I Create For behold I create Jerusalem a Rejoycing and her People a Joy And I will rejoyce in Jerusalem and Joy in my People and the Voice of Weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the Voice of crying There shall be no more thence an Infant of Days nor an old Man that hath not filled his Days For the Child shall die an hundred Years old but the Sinner being an hundred Years old shall be Accursed And they shall build Houses and inhabit them and they shall plant Vineyards and eat the Fruit of them They shall not Build and another Inhabit they shall not Plant and another Eat For as the days of a Tree are the days of my People and mine Elect shall long enjoy the Work of their Hands They shall not labour in Vain nor bring forth for Trouble For they are the Seed of the Blessed of the Lord and their Off-spring with them And it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer and whilst they are yet speaking I will hear The Wolf and the Lamb shall feed together and the Lion shall eat Straw like the Bullock and Dust shall be the Serpent 's Meat They shall not hurt or destroy in all my Holy Mountain saith the Lord. It shall come to pass so and so say the Prophets but as yet such things have not come to pass But this Administration of the Religion of the holy Jesus not my own but founded on Holy Writ will bring such things to pass it will by its sweet and gentle Influences soften and mollifie the Ruggedness of the World appease the Heavens and transform the Earth and render it a Paradise it will set Justice Truth and Peace on an unmoveable Foundation and turn the World in a manner into a Theocracy For 't is more than probable that by degrees it will vacate and supersede all humane Sanctions and make them of little Effect by its prevailing Energy and pacifick Nature making Love and Charity and Christian Condescension the Principal Rulers of the Vniverse Then will the God of Love or Truth and Peace visit us and make his abode with us and rain down his Blessing and Graces upon us as at the Beginning and we shall become a Royal Priecthood a Peculiar People zealous not of destroying one another as at this Day but zealous of good Works Ephraim shall no more vex Judah nor Judah Ephraim Every Prince and Nation shall be content with their own Territory and Borders The noise of War shall no more be heard of amongst us our Swords shall be turned into Plow Shares and our Spears into Pruning Hooks Zech. 2 vers 10. Sing and Rejoyce O Daughter or Sion for lo I come and will dwell in the midst of thee saith the Lord And many Nations shall be joyned to the Lord in that day and shall be my People and I will dwell in the midst of thee and thou shalt know that the Lord of Hosts hath sent me unto thee and the Lord shall inherit Judah his Portion in the Holy Land and choose Jerusalem again Be silent O all Flesh before the Lord for he is raised up out of his Holy Habitation And it shall be in that day that Living Waters shall go out from Jerusalem half of them viz. Preachers towards the former Sea and half of them towards the hinder Sea in Summer and in Winter shall it be And the Lord shall be King over all the Earth In that day shall there be One Lord and his Name One The Jews and the Gentiles shall use the same Method and Way of Administration and send out their Preachers from the midst of their Habitations But the Question will be asked how all the present Difficulties will be surmounted In answer to which let the same Prophet speak Who art thou O great Mountain Before Zerubbabel Christ Thou shalt become a Plain and he shall bring forth the Head Stone thereof with shouting crying Grace Grace The Hands of Zerubbabel have laid the Foundation of this House his Hands shall also finish it And thou shalt know that the Lord of Hosts hath sent me unto you Christ is Alpha and Omega the first and the last the Consideration of which brings me to my Conclusion in which I shall vindicate my self from the Charge of Innovation and say The way which I propose is not a new Way but the Renovation of an old One For 't is the way by which Christianity Entred the World and therefore the most likely to preserve it 't is the way which the Apostles used which our Saviour practised he went up and down doing Good he sent out the Twelve and the seventy Disciples who Preached his Gospel through the Towns and Villages and then returned to him again When he was leaving the Earth by a plain Indigitation he Recommended this way 'T is a way pregnant with all the Felicities can be imagined 't is advantageous to all Governments and friendly to all Societies 't will bring Glory to God on High restore Peace on Earth and good Will amongst Men. How Beautiful upon the Mountains are the Feet of him that bringeth good Tidings that publisheth Peace that bringeth good Tidings of good that publisheth Salvation that saith unto Zion Thy God Reigneth Isa 52. Verse 7. Haec cùm fiunt Statu hoc Harmonium Pacem adferente inter Gentiles in Terris Christianis posito mirabuntur Judaei Christoque Authori Auspicatissimo tum demùm credent Nec non pacato Deo vocante Christiano adjuvante magno cum gaudio Triumpho post tam longum ob malitiam incredulitatem exulatum ad suas Terras Hierosolymitanas ex omnibus plagis Terrarum Regionibus redibunt Nec futilia aut inania Antiquorum Prophetarum Vaticinia de faelici Judaeorum aut Gentilium Statut diutiùs habebuntur Nam omnia ista Grandiloquia de Pace Justitiâ Veritate plenam Solutionem hoc Ministerio Theocratico habebunt exiguo Temporis Spatio Diversas Mundi Regiones quasi diversas unius gentis Civitates mutuo foedere irrefragabilis amiciticae conjunctas Spectabimus Et Preces illa tum frequent in ore Sacerdotum viz. Revoca ad Sedes antiquam Gentem Judaeorum gloriam Gentilium redde completam habebit responsum FINIS