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A85805	The path-way to peace. Or, The only assured and most certain means, whereby to heal the sores, make up the breaches, remove the fears, prevent the ruine, reconcile the differences, and put a finall end to the manifold divisions of this famous (though now much distracted) kingdom. By that faithfull and painfull preacher of Gods Word, Thomas Gardener, late pastor of St Maries in Sandwich. It is ordered this thirteenth day of February, 1642. by the committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this book, intituled, The path-way to peace, be printed. John White.	Gardener, Thomas, d. 1635.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing G250; Thomason E105_1; ESTC R5591	12,202	17

enemies others are Neuters like Gallio the Deputy Act. 18.16 17. caring neither for the wicked Jews nor zealous Paul now the Lord will not onely make such at peace with us who as yet are indifferent but even our very professed enemies The wicked can never truly love the godly At peace The wise man doth not say That the Lord will make his enemies love him no for the unsanctified heart cannot truely love a righteous man as righteous that is the property of the faithfull soul but he will make him at peace with him that is Outwardly there shall be quietnesse and profession of love He maketh It s of the Lord not from the wicked when they are at peace with the godly Isa 57.19 namely The Lord. It 's not any naturall inclination or vertuous disposition the wicked have to the righteous but the Lords work He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him Again Who is the author who worketh our Peace It 's the Lord that createth Peace for us whether it be peace within or peace without us The wicked have peace such as it is inward and outward but not from the God of peace There were that prophesied Jer. 14.13 Ezek. 13 16. 1 Thess 5.3 That the Jews should have assured peace whose Prophesies were found Lyes God having said That there was no peace for them When the wicked shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travell upon a woman with childe and they shall not escape This is the comfort of the faithfull That what they have of these temporall blessings it 's from the Lord. So long as our wayes are pleasing to God this promise belongeth unto us When a mans wayes c. This promise is warranted unto us during our continuance in well-doing while our wayes are so undefiled that they be acceptable before God If we forsake this secure way we forsake our own mercy Thus of the Particulars observable from the words severally confidered Jonah 2.8 Come we now to the two Generalls of the Text which have been already propounded namely 1. The duty of every Christian To order his wayes so that they may please God 2. The reward of the duty namely That then the Lord will make the enemies of these his friends to be at peace with them Joh. 15.14 both which may be reduced into this one Point which is here chiefly aymed at and the principall scope of the whole Text namely That The Doctrine When our conversation is pleasing to the Lord and we so live as walking with God he brings it to passe that our very enemies are at peace with us This Doctrine will be sufficiently laid open unto us if we shall examine 1. The truth of it by Scriptures 2. The manner how the Lord doth make our very enemies at peace with us 3. The reasons why he doth thus shew his love to his Saints Then 4. Answer such places of Scripture as seem to oppose this truth 5. Make use and application of this comfortable promise The first Point The proof of the Doctrine out of Gods Word Proved This we will expresse 1. Affirmatively shewing That when our wayes please the Lord he makes our enemies at peace with us 2. Negatively or by way of contraries to make the truth more evidently appear namely That when our actions and life are displeasing to God he makes our very friends at enmity with us Affirmatively by examples Affirmatively and that by sundry examples for they are more familiar and convincing The first is between Abimelech King of the Philistims The 1 example Gen. 26.16.27 28. and Isaac the faithfull seed of Abraham Isaac was hated of this Heathenish King and driven away yet in processe of time the Lord apparently shewed his blessings upon him that the King could not but perceive it and is constrained to come and seek to make a League with him The second is of Jacob The 2 example Gen 35.5 who thought his sons had so tyrannously slaughtered a whole City of men the inhabitants of Shechem that there could be nothing expected of upright Jacob but that the neighbouring Nations should have revenged their cruelty with the like slaughter of him and his houshold yet the terrour of the Lord fell upon the people round about them as they travelled that they suffered them peaceably to take their journey without making any pursuit after them The third unto the Israelites The 3 example Exod. 12.26 when the Lord gave them favour in the eyes of the Aegyptians their cruell enemies The fourth The 4 example Jer. 39.11 12. This promise was also made good unto Jeremy when being ungently used of his own people in the generall Captivity of the Jews he was restored to liberty and kindely entreated of the enemies The fifth The 5 example Gen. 33 4. But never was this truth more compleatly accomplished then when the Lord made Esau at peace with his brother Jacob for where there is hatred betwixt brethren it s usually most extreme Prov. 18 19. as the wise man teacheth the brother offended is harder to be won then a strong City and their contentions are like the bars of a Castle This is more marvellous if we consider That he was even then in his march with four hundred men towards his brother to revenge himself of his long unforgotten injuries when he was reconciled unto him Negatively by examples Negatively When we displease God he makes our very friends at enmity with us whereof we have also pregnant examples The first The 1 example 1 Sam. 15.23 of Saul because his wayes were rebellious against the Lord his own servants his own Tribe his son in law David and his own son out of his bowels all were against him Sam 22 7 8. yea Jonathan did favour David his greatest adversary whereof he himself did pitifully complain The 2 example The second of David under whom the Lord had subdued all all his enemies till such time as he sinned against God in the matter of Vriah the Hittite and then the Lord raised against him his own darling Absalom 2 Sam. 15.10 to conspire against him for his Kingdom The 3 example The third of Solomon All the while his heart was perfect with his God he had peace within his own Dominions from Dan to Beersheba 1 King 4 24. but after he multiplies women to himself and sacrifices to strange gods then God stirs up Hadad and Rezon 1 King 11.14.23.26 28. such as were formerly at peace with him yea even his own servant and favourite Jeroboam The fourth The 4 example 2 Chron. 24.18.25 of Joash who thrived while he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord but falling to Idolatry and hatred of Reformation his own servants conspired against him and flew him Thus have we the truth of the doctrine both affirmatively and

The Path-way to PEACE OR The only assured and most certain Means whereby to heal the sores make up the breaches remove the fears prevent the ruine reconcile the differences and put a finall end to the manifold divisions of this famous though now much distracted Kingdom By that faithfull and painfull Preacher of Gods Word THOMAS GARDENER late Pastor of St Maries in Sandwich PSAL. 147.14 He maketh Peace in thy borders OR Who maketh thy borders Peace IT is Ordered this thirteenth day of February 1642. by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning Printing That this book intituled The Path-way to Peace be printed JOHN WHITE London Printed by J. R. for John Browne and are to be sold at his Shop in St Dunstans Church-yard Fleet-street 1643. To the RIGHT WORSHIPFULL THE MAIOR THE WORSHIPFULL THE JURATS His Brethren And the rest of the INHABITANTS Of the Town and Port of SANDWICH The Publisher hereof Dedicateth these First Fruits of their PASTORS Labours And wisheth That their wayes may so please the Lord that they may enjoy Peace Externall Internall Eternall The Path-way to Peace PROVERB 16.7 When a mans wayes please the Lord he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him THe righteous have so many and so exceeding great encouragements to strengthen them in the prosecution of a religious course of life The godly have manifold encouragements to strenthen them in their religious courses so sweet invitations and strong allurements with such glorious promises that if they be not very heartlesse cowards they cannot but be resolute in the declaration of the powerfull profession of the grace of Christ Jesus for to let passe those unspeakably sweet and comfortable promises of grace in this life and its consequents and of glory hereafter and its concomitants not to speak of them for indeed they are inexplicable and if I had the tongue of men and Angels I should but bungle in setting them forth unto you I say beside these spirituall and heavenly blessings appropriated unto the Saints there are also many temporall priviledges which more peculiarly belong unto them all which compared together makes their present condition though outwardly never so base and despicable to transcend and over-top the Bay-flourishing estate of the ungodly sons of Belial though they bathe themselves never so plenteously in the rivers of the pleasures of this life and be never so much encompassed with the restlesse desires of their own carnall heart Amongst those promises this may not undeservedly be ranked which the wisest of meer men propounds unto us in this proportion of holy Scripture which as a costly jewell in a Ring of fine gold or as a glorious glistering Star fixed in his Orb offers it self unto our consideration containing thus much in effect That when a mans courses The sum and substance of the promise here laid down proceedings and all his actions his carriage towards God his intercourse and conversation with men When I say these his wayes are so equally and evenly levelled and squared that they are well-pleasing to the eyes of the Almighty the Lord doth su prosper him in all his affairs that if he get not the love and hearty affection of his enemies yet at leastwise he so orders it that be makes them to be outwardly at peace with him The Division of the Text. The words being thus unfolded we may conceive two generall parts therein 1. An Exhortation to a godly life viz. That our wayes may please the Lord which is propounded by way of supposition When a mans wayes please the Lord. 2. A Motive to enforce the same from the benefit ensuing thereupon Our enemies shall be at peace with us When a mans wayes please the Lord he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him The Exposition of the words with the particular observations included therein In these two generall points there are many particulars observable included as hand-maids to the main point and are wrapped about the body of the Text as the Ivy about the tree But because they are not so directly incident to the Text I will but touch them and so leave them What we are to understand by Wayes Wayes Men actions motion of their affections and common course of life are usually called wayes in the Scriptures in regard of the neer resemblance of each to other for as by the way which a man travelleth we may conjecture whither he goeth East-ward or West-ward so our actions shew wither we are going to infernall AEgypt or to the celestiall Canaan whether to Hell or Heaven There 's no third way Mans wayes Mens wayes of themselves cannot please God Mens wayes o themselves cannot please God Rom. 8 7. Isa 64 6. for the most Reformed are abominable before the Lord. The very wised in of the flesh is enmity against God and We all are as an unclean cloth and our righteousnesse is as filthy rags We are therefore here to understand mans wayes sanctified and directed by the spirit of the Lord. The wayes of the true convert are pleasing wayes Please the Lord. The wayes of the true convert are pleasing wayes pleasing in their own nature as being the actions of divine grace in their Originall as proceeding from an upright heart and faith unfaigned and in their effect as being very delightfull and comfortable unto us in the performing of them and therefore in Scripture the wayes of wisedom that is Prov. 3.17 of him that is truely wise are called wayes of pleasantnesse and King Solomon admires this pleasingnesse of Christs Spouse saying How fair and how pleasant art thou O Love Cant. 7 6. for delights Again The wayes of the godly are pleasing to the Lord. Isa 62.4 Though distastefull to the wick●d Prov. 29.27 Cant. 4.9 The wayes of a righteous man are indeed pleasing unto the Lord and therefore he calls his Church Hepbzibah that is● My delight is in her But contrarily they are unsavoury and distastefull to the wicked who finde no more taste in such wayes then in the white of an egge He that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked The Lord The Object of all the righteous mans actions must be Jehovah our God We must not regard our selves nor the world As we are the Spouse of Christ so we must behave our selves as the chaste Spouse whose care is how she may please her Bride-groom who hath betrothed himself unto her other mens love she mindes not So we if we can please God no matter whom we displease The godly have many enemies His enemies The godly have their enemies not one but many enemies in the Plurall number Wicked Angels and men men both without and within the Church The extent of Gods goodnesse to his Even his enemies Or his very enemies This is to expresse the extent of Gods goodnesse unto us by way of emphasis some are friends to the faithfull oth●rs are