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A59577	The things that make for peace delivered in a sermon preached before the right honourable the Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, at Guild-Hall-Chappel, upon the 23 of August, 1674 / by John Sharpe, D.D., now Lord Arch-bishop of York.	Sharp, John, 1645-1714.; Hooker, William, Sir, 1612-1697.	1691 (1691)	Wing S3004; ESTC R41707	19,125	33

Hooker Mayor Jovis xxvii die Augusti 1674. Annoque Regni Regis CAROLI Secundi Angliae c. xxvi ORdered by this Court That Mr. Sharpe be desired to Print his Sermon Preached on Sunday last before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City at the Guild-Hall Chappel Wagstaffe Imprimatur Sept. 11. 1674. Guliel Wigan Rev. in Ch. Pat. ac Do. Do. Humf. Episc Lond. in Sac. Dom. The Things that make for Peace Delivered in a SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable THE Lord Mayor AND THE Court of ALDERMEN AT GVILD-HALL-CHAPPEL Upon the 23. of August 1674. By JOHN SHARPE D. D. now Lord Arch-Bishop of YORK The Second Editon LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1691. TO THE Right Honourable Sir WILLIAM HOOKER Lord Mayor OF LONDON And to the COURT of ALDERMEN Right Honourable THE following Discourse was never designed to go further than your own Chappel otherwise it had not been left so Imperfect But since you have thought fit to Order it should be more Publick it would ill become me who do in it so earnestly press Obedience to Superiours to dispute your Commands Such therefore as it is I humbly present it to you heartily wishing it may in some degree minister to the Promoting Peace and Unity and Brotherly Love among us which is the only thing therein aimed at by Right Honourable Your most Humble and Obedient Servant JOHN SHARPE ROM xiv 19. Let us therefore follow after the things that make for Peace THE Apostle's design in this Chapter is to perswade the Roman Christians to live Peaceably one with another notwithstanding all their different Perswasions in matters of Religion He doth not so much set himself to Resolve their Contraversies to determine which Side held the Truest Opinions as to Silence their Disputes to allay those Bitternesses and Animosities with which the several Parties prosecuted each other to oblige them to embrace one another in Christian Charity and though there could not be an Vnity of Judgment among them which certainly is a thing can never be expected mens apprehensions concerning things being necessarily almost as various as are their Tempers and Complexions yet nevertheless they should so order the matter that there might at least be an Vnity of Affection and an amicable communication one with another He represents to them that they had nothing to do to Judge or Censure their Brethren Ver. 4. seq for they were God's Servants and to Him only they stood or fell that though they were mistaken in their Notions as to the Points in Controversie yet nevertheless if what was done upon those mistaken Principles was done out of a pure heart and as in obedience to the Commands of God it would be accepted of him Ver. 13 14 15. He is so far from countenancing their Religious Quarrels that he adviseth even those that held the true side of the Question to submit for Peace sake and rather to recede from their right to forbear doing that which they might lawfully do than by undue use of their Liberty to cast a Stumbling-block before the weak uninstructed Dissenters and be a means of their forsaking Christianity Ver. 17. And the more to enforce this Discourse he assures them that however they might pretend Religion for their present differences yet in truth That was of all other things the least interessed in them They were much mistaken in the nature of it if they took it to consist in such small inconsiderable external things as they made the matter of their Dissensions Christianity was not much concerned whether they are such kind of Meats or whether they did not eat them whether they kept Sabbaths and New-Moons holy to the Lord or whether they esteemed every day alike That was a more inward and a more noble thing It was the hearty practice of Righteousness and Peace and Rejoycing to do good These were the things that made a man a Christian Ver. 18. and in These things faith the Apostle be that serveth Christ is indeed acceptable to God and approved of men And then at last from these several Particulars he draws this general Inference by way of Exhortation Let us therefore follow after the things that make for peace I have given you a brief account of the Apostle's discourse in this Chapter and I could heartily wish that I had no occasion to deal any further upon this Subject Happy were it for Christians if things were in that posture among them that they were no further concerned in these Discourses of Scripture than only to be instructed in the sense of them But alas whoever understands any thing of the state of Christianity now for these many Ages in the World will easily see that no one Point of our Religion has been in all times more necessary to be daily preached to be earnestly pressed to be loudly sounded in the ears of Christians than this of Peace and Love and mutual sufferance under their different apprehensions of Religion It has fared as one hath observed with Christianity in this matter Mr. Hales as it did with the Jewish Dispensation of old The great and principal Commandment which God gave the Jews and which as they themselves teach was the Foundation of all their Law was to worship the God of Israel and Him only to serve yet such was the sottishness and perverseness of that People that This was the Commandment that of all others they could never be obliged to keep but they were continually running a whoring after the Gods of the Nations notwithstanding all the various ways and methods that God made use of to reclaim them from that sin What the Worship of one God was to the Jews that Peace and Love and Vnity is to the Christians even the grand distinguishing Law and Character of their Profession and yet with sorrow and to our unspeakable confusion it may be spoken There is no Religion that ever was known in the World hath given Birth to so many Heresies hath been intituled to so many needless Disputes and Quarrels hath been crumbled into so many Sects and Parties hath been prosecuted by all the several Pretenders to it with so much heat and fury and implacable animosity hath been made the occasion of so much Tumult War and Bloodshed as this excellent this innocent and gall-less Religion of ours To go no further than our selves and the posture we stand in at this day if ever any Society of Christians could be obliged to live in Brotherly Love and Communion with one another we certainly are the Men. For besides the engagements of our Religion common to us with other Christians we have all the external advantages which a wise and well-temper'd Settlement of Church-affairs a mild and just Government and excellent Laws can give to the promoting thereof Religion is established among us in as great Purity as ever perhaps it was since the Apostles times The Government we

Divine entertainments of the Spiritual Life Were we but seriously taken up with the Substantials of our Religion we should not have leisure for the Talking Disputing Divinity we should have greater matters to take up our thoughts and more profitable Arguments to furnish out our Discourses So long as we could busy our selves in working out our Salvation and furthering the Salvation of others we should think it but a mean Employment to spend our time in spinning fine Nets for the catching of Flies Besides this Divine Life if it once took place in us would strangely dilate and enlarge our hearts in Charity towards our Brethren it would make us open our arms wide to the whole Creation it would perfectly work out of us all that Peevishness and Sowrness and Penuriousness of spirit which we do too often contract by being addicted to a Sect and would make us Sweet and Benign and Obliging and ready to receive and embrace all Conditions of men In a word it would quite swallow up all Distinctions of Parties and what ever did but bear upon it the Image of God and the Superscription of the Holy Jesus would need no other Commendatories to our Affection but would upon that alone account be infinitely dear and precious to us Let us all therefore earnestly contend after this Divine Principle of Holiness let us bring down Religion from our Heads to our Hearts from Speculation to Practice Let us make it our business heartily to love God and do his will and then we may hope to see Peace in our days This this is that that will restore to the World the Golden Age of Primitive Christianity when the Love and Vnity of the Disciples of Jesus was so conspicuous and remarkable that it became into a Proverb See how the Christians love one another This this is that that will bring in the Accomplishment of all those glorious Promises of Peace and Tranquillity that Christ hath made to his Church Then shall the Wolf dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard lie down with the Kid Then shall not Ephraim envy Judah nor Judah vex Ephraim but we shall turn our Swords into Plough-shares and our Spears into Pruning-hooks and there will be no more consuming or devouring in all God's Holy Mountain I should now proceed to the second general Point in my proposed Method of handling this Text viz. To set before you the very great Engagements and Obligations we have upon us to follow after the Things that make for Peace and that 1. From the Nature and Contrivance of our Religion 2. From the great weight the Scripture lays upon this Duty 3. From the great Vnreasonableness of our Religious Differences 4. From the very evil Consequences that attend them as 1. In that they are great Hinderances of a good Life 2. They are very pernicious to the Civil Peace of the State 3. They are highly Opprobrious to Christianity in general And 4. and lastly Very dangerous to the Protestant Religion as giving too many advantages and too much encouragement to the Factors of the Papacy But I have I fear already exceeded the Limits of a Sermon and therefore shall add no more God open our Eyes that we may in this our day understand the Things that belong to Peace before they be hid from our Eyes FINIS Books Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-Head in St Paul 's Church-Yard A Discourse concerning Conscience The first Part wherein an account is given of the Nature and Rule and Obligation of it And the case of those who separate from the Communion of the Church of England as by Law established upon this pretence that it is against their Conscience to join in it is stated and discussed A Discourse of Conscience The second Part concerning a doubting Conscience A Sermon before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen Aug. 23. 1674. on Rom. xiv 19. A Sermon before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen Jan. 31. 1675. on 1 Tim. iv 8. A Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons April 11. 1679. on Revel ii 5. The Duty and Happiness of doing good in two Sermons the former Preached at the Yorkshire Feast Feb. 17. 1679. on Eccl. iii. 10. the other before the Lord Mayor at the Spittle Apr. 14. 1680. on 1 Tim. vi 17 18 19. A Sermon at the Election of the Lord Mayor Sept. 29. 1680. on Psal cxii 4. A Lent Sermon at Whitehal March 20. 1684. on Luke xvi 31. A Sermon before the Queen at Whitehall Apr. 11. 1690. on Gal. v. 13. A Fast-Sermon before the Honourable House of Commons May 21. 1690. on Deut. v. 29. A Sermon on the 28. of June at St. Giles in the Fields at the leaving that Parish on Phil. iv 8. all twelve by the most Reverend Father in God John Lord Arch-Bishop of York Books Printed for W. Kettilby Bishop Overall's Convocation Book MDC VI. concerning the Government of God's Catholick Church and the Kingdoms of the whole World 4to Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man 12. The Third Edition Dr Worthington of Christian Love 8vo Animadversions on Mr. Johnson's Answer to Jovian 8vo Mr Nichols's Answer to the Naked Gospel 4to Turner De Angelorum Hominum Lapsu 4to Bishop of Chichester's Sermon before the King and Queen June 1. 1690. Dr Pelling's Sermon before the King and Queen Decem. 8. 1689. 's Vindication of those that have taken the Oath 4to Mr Lamb's Dialogues between a Minister and his Parishioner about the Lord's Supper 8vo 's Sermon before the King at Windsor 's Sermon before the Lord Mayor 's Liberty of humane Nature stated discussed and limited 's Sermon before the King and Queen Jan. 19. 1689. 's Sermon before the Queen Jan. 24. 1690. Dr Hickman's Thanksgiving Sermon before the Honourable House of Commons Oct. 19. 1690. 's Sermon before the Queen at Whitehall Oct. 26. 1690. Dr Burnet's Answer to Mr Warren 's Considerations of Mr Warren's Defence Bishop of Bath and Wells Reflections on a French Testament Printed at Bordeaux