long time beleeved to be such Sed oculos à rebus omnibus abducas quae Deus non sunt si veritatem quaeras Esay 8. 20. To the Law and to the Testimony Joh. 5.29 Search the Scriptures from these wells must we draw the waters of life purifying refreshing and saving truths {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The Veyn and Mine of truth hath many windings and intricate turnings requiring a sagacious and industrious minde to follow it 2 Shew your love to truth by propagating and imparting it to others when your selves have discovered it Veritas nihil erubescit praeterquam abscondi Truth is onely ashamed to bee hidden as the Sunne to be clouded or eclipsed Truth as light wasts not by communicating it selfe to others Quò communius bonum eò divinitus Shew your love to it and to men by teaching it to others but in a calme and unpassionate way truth is best seene in cleare and untroubled waters {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Ephes. 4. 15. Speaking the truth in love Pittying not triumphing in others ignorance or reproaching their errors and weaknesse of judgement Farther shew your love by using all meanes to plant and nourish truth by setting up the lights of good and painefull Preachers in the dark and obscure corners of our Land where God knowes many poore soules perish for want of knowledge such I meane as can and will rightly divide the Word of truth 1 Tim. 2. 15. There is no engine you can invent so effectuall to batter down and demollish the adverse party or to secure the prosperitie of our Church and State But this will hardly be done without encouraging men to the study and preaching of truth in the way of necessary competent and liberall maintenance for it is most certaine as Bishop lewell sometime told Queen Elizabeth in a Sermon Tenuitatem beneficiorum necessario sequitur ignorantia sacerdotum Never flatter your selves that the Lampes of the Temple will burne at all or but very dimly and poorely if you supply them not with Oyle sufficient to enliven themselves and enlighten others 3. Shew your love of truth by a zealous active and constant maintaining of it Zeale is flamma amoris Love raised to a flame by all justifiable wayes asserting the honour of it and the professors of it against the profanenesse idlenesse envy calumnies and oppositions of the enemies thereof either Atheists sensuall ignorant or superstitious 2 Cor. 13. 8. We can doe nothing against the truth but for the truth doe all you lawfully may by severe and wholesome Edicts fencing in and fortifying truth against the Seminary incursions of those that seeke to encroach upon its ancient bounds also against the bold and impudent Preaching Printing and Disputing for the contrary errors which have beene long agoe exploded and confuted which by misused power or tacit connivence seeke to creepe in and undermine our truth Leakes may sinke us as well as rockes split us Jude 3. Contend then earnestly for the truth but with the power of Gods not mans arme of flesh with a contention of love not of force such as may not destroy men but their errors which otherwise will destroy them Truth is so sufficiently armed with its owne power that it needes not the assistance of the Sword or Canon which reach not the minds of men nor can divide them from their errors nor batter downe the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} strong holds of prepossessed false opinions That excellency if power which is in the Word of God and his Spirit is onely able to subdue the understanding Yet must not the Magistrate so farre be wanting to Gods glory and the Churches good as to faile to defend truth against those that by cunning or force seeke to subvert it setting up the just t 〈…〉 or of those Lawes which may chase away those Owles and Bats and ferall Birds that love darkenesse and portend a night where ever they appeare that cannot endure the light because their workes are evill as well as their doctrines false 4. Shew your love to the Truth as by doing for it all you can so by obeying the truth from the heart 1 Pet. 1. 22. by living conformably to it that there be no solaecisme in your lives that the truth of your doctrine be not confuted by the corruptnesse of your manners not onely seeking the truth and speaking the truth and defending the truth but farther doing the Truth 1 John 1. 6. which is the strongest vindication of its honour and your beleefe of it There is a labour of love which loves its labour ready to deny our selves in any thing neere or deare to us rather than deny any saving truth chearefully suffering for it rather than it should suffer a good minde that loves the truth suffers more in truthes suppression than its owne yea by dying for it if need be and God choose us out for his champions to crowne and improve the necessity of death with the glory of martyrdome which is the highest witnessing of our love to God and his Truth Difficulties rather whâ—â— and twist to a firmer resolution than any way blâ—t or discourage a well placed affection The Heathen man set such a price on truth that he thought it worth our life Vitamque impendere vero Nec propter vitam vivendi perdere causam It is a blind preposterous love that loves life better then that for which onely life is worth the having better we dye than truth decay which as a Phoe nix is wont to renew its life out of martyrs ashes 5 Lastly what we come short in doing or suffering for the love of truth at least seeke to supply by our frequent and fervent prayers to God that hee would so make the way and carry on his truth that it may prevalile upon the hearts of men to a love of it But in this variety of Opinions and Distraction of sides every one challenging truth to be on their party How shall we know what is that Truth which we ought to love and adhere unto I Answer the Truth of God like the light of the Sunne is best knowne and distinguished from all other by the beauty and excellency of its effects of life heate and fertillity that is infallibly the saving and necessary truth of God most deserving our love and study which hath and alwayes had the greatest and best influence on mens hearts and lives that is Gods truth which makes men more godly more holy pure just good humble peaceable charitable selfe-denying and consciencious in all their wayes What brings us nearest and makes us likest to God which conformes us most to that highest and divinest patterne of Christs minde and conversation It hath beene alwayes the Seale of honour set upon Christian Religion and that truth whereon it is founded that it most magnifies God and goodnesse Those truths which have the greatest operation on mens mindes consciences and lives so as to
a Statist or Politician to which I pretend not but as a Divine a Messenger from the God of Truth and Peace seeking to kindle and inflame your hearts to such a love of them as may be most happy to your own souls and most beneficiall to our Church and State in the good of both which you are all highly concerned and in nothing can you promote the prosperity of either or both of them more then in your Love and advancement of Truth and Peace May God the Fountain of Truth Christ the Saviour of Love the holy Ghost the Spirit of Peace assist me in speaking you in hearing all in doing so as we may shew a pure impartiall and unpassionate love of Truth and Peace In the words consider three things First the inference Therefore Secondly the objects propounded Truth and Peace Thirdly the dutie required Love Every word hath a weight beauty and benefit in it so that they well merit and require your attention First the inference Therefore The greater mercies God shewes to us the stricter obligations to love and obedience he hath upon us When our fasting and mourning are happily turned to cheerfull feasts our feares and jealousies cleered up to joy and gladnesse to hopes of better estate and times what doth God require of us but this Therefore to love the Truth and Peace When Gods infinite mercy and patience to us hath beyond expectation as well as desert brought back our Church and State from the brink and precipice of warre ruine and confusion which threatned our Peace From the spreading and prevailings of errours heresies schismes and superstition which strive to oppress or eclipse our Church and Truth That there is a breathing space a lengthning of our tranquillity put into our hands What doth God require of us by way of gratitude to him of loyalty to our Soveraign of fidelitie to our Countrey then to Love the Truth and Peace which are so happily still continued to us and by an active serious and industrious love to study the setling and recovery of them both Secondly the Objects propounded here we will consider First What Truth is Secondly What Peace Thirdly The union of them Truth and Peace Fourthly The lovelinesse in them which best appears in the benefit by them so as to merit our affection 1. Of Truth That question of Pilate to Christ will here be made What is Truth I answer It is a conformity agreeablenesse or answerablenesse of our mindes or things to their Ideas patternes rules or measures As that Copy is true which agrees with the Originall That weight or measure true which fits the Standard That impression true in waxe or paper which exactly fits the types and engravings That notion or perception true in the minde or sense which agrees with the nature of the thing or object whereto they are applyed Truth is the increated light of the intellectaull world shining from God to Angels and Men The first Idea rule measure or Standard of Truth is God his Will which I call Veritas Dei Whereby he is what he is essentially simply immutably by which he wils all things to be what indeed they are and knowes them to be such as they are most certainly This Sunne of Truth is in God never clouded spotted or eclipsed never setting or changing Eternall light day noone a constant serenity From this is the eradiation of Truth or shining forth of the Divine will by his Works and Word Which we call Veritas Rei and this is first Entitatis whereby things are such as God would have them to be and so are true and good Secondly Veritas mentis whereby things are known or believed by us to be such as indeed they are either made or revealed by God to us this is the truth of science or faith Thirdly Hence flows Veritas sermonis of dicti when our words and orall expressions are conformable to our knowledge and belief or things speaking the truth Ephes. 4. 15. Fourthly Veritas facti Vitae whereby our actions are conformable to what we say and seem to know judge or believe of things which is the doing of the Truth 1. Ioh. 1. 6. The Idea or pattern of our actions are our words of our words our minds and conceptions of our minds things themselves of all things the Divine will most wise powerfull and immutably good All Truth as being is originally from God as a Sea and Sun derived and must by a right beam and clear stream be reduced to him again and so it is when we do as we speak when we speak as we think know or believe when we know or believe as things are either made or revealed by God Then doth the ray or veyn of truth flow aright from God to us and reflect back again from us to him When in any of these we fail there comes in hypocrisie and simulation in our actions lying in our words error falsity and unbelief in our mindes when our actions contradict our words our words our mindes our mindes the nature and truth of things made or revealed by God whose will in his works and word is as I said the rule of Truth There are divers manifestations of truth though it be but one yet as light shining through divers pores or one Fountain derived in severall Conduits for the benefit of rationall creatures First There is Truth naturall or physicall in the Works of God which by sense and discourse by art and science we learn Secondly There is Truth morall politicall or civil which is in the enacting interpreting and executing of Laws according to the rules of Justice Thirdly there is a truth Theologicall supernaturall or religious which chiefly concerns our Souls and is immediately taught from God The first is in the Works of God and Nature The second in the laws and edicts of men agreeable to principles of reason The third is in the sacred Scriptures the only foundation and rule of faith and religion The first concerns us as creatures severally The second as sociable creatures joyntly in a state or Common-wealth The third as Christians in a Church and neerer call or relation to God The first requires our love to it as we love our selves in a naturall way the second as wee love our Countrey relations and liberties the third as we love our soules By the first the health and welfare of our bodies and pleasure of our senses fancies and minds are maintained while we know and enjoy the true vertues power and use of creatures able to apply fit meanes to our ends By the second the health of the state or body politick is preserved while Lawes which are the nerves and ligaments of civil societies are grounded upon innate infallible and eternall principles of equity reason and justice to which all men agree and being so constituted are truly interpreted and executed not wrested depraved obscured or violently broken this is veritas justitiae decisionis the truth in judicature
of profit preferment applause and the like as Demas did 2 Tim. 4. 10. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It is neither truth nor peace so much they love though they stickle for both but their bellies pleasures plenty and selves which they enjoy under the wings of truth and peace 5. Many love what they think truth and happily is so yet not because it is so but because they think so extreamely biased with selfe love and pride that they pertinaciously retaine what ever opinion they have once undertaken though they cannot maintaine it only on this ground Ne videantur errâsse so hardly drawne by overcomming themselves to triumph over their errours Ita perit judicium ubi res transit in affectum nostram qualemcunque praevalere volumus sententiam quia nostra est so much doe our affections blinde briâ—â— corrupt and warpe our judgements 6. Many say they love truth but not universally not such truthes as crosse their credits opinions ends pleasures sinnes and lusts Nolunt id verum videri quod affectibus suis adversatur He loves not any Truth that loves not all as he likes not the light or Sun who is offended with any beame of it 7. Veritas animae sponsa Truth is a pure Virgin which every soule should wooe and seeke to wed to it selfe Many pretend to love it but not casto honesto amore sed meretricio prudendo Lascivientia ingenia such as fondly and wantonly out of a vanity and curiosity only court that Truth which they see is countenanced and shined upon by publick favour and authority ready enough to discountenance and forsake it if the streame of things should change Venales animae vile and mercenary soules that buy and sell the truth prostituting it not intirely loving and wedding themselves to it 8. Some to purchase their peace are ready to sell the Truth by flattering complying and mancipating their judgements to other mens opinions and errours either discovered which is very wicked or unsearched which is very weak Degenerate mindes which so easily enslave that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the noblest and soveraigne faculty of the soule which is the understanding to other mens errours never so great if their power be so too 9. Veritas animae pabulum there is as great an aptitude and proportion betweene the minde of man and truth as is betweene the eye and the object meat and the stomack now we know it must be a pure and unblemished eye that sees with certainty and constancie a cleare sound and undiseased stomack that desires likes and digests wholesome meats Such must that minde bee which loves {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Wholesome Truths sound Doctrines 1. Many are so vitiated and distempered by sin the World their Lusts and Vanities that they wholely refuse to take downe any truth what the eare may receive sometime their heart casts up againe profanely and reproachfully by their words and actions Ita veritas odium nauseam parit The speediest way to lose the love of many is freely to tell them that truth which might doe them most good for it seemes to them as Michaiahs words to Ahab odious and offensive although it gave him warning of his danger and shewed him the only way for his safety 2. Many like choyse and wanton stomacks receive and digest indeed some truths in their minds and memories but it is morbum alere non hominem only thereby the better to nourish and strengthen their erroneous humours and conceits and what ever truth they meet with is presently swallowed without chewing by some monster of opinion which they maintaine For errour is so feeble and unbottomed that it must have some buttresses and seeming basis of truth to support it By this meanes detayning the truth of God in unrighteousnesse Rom. 1. 18. 3. Many are of so hot unquiet and cholerick stomacks that they love not truth sweetned with peace not calme and sober truths Afraid to be thought coldly if peaceably religious even in matters of lesser moment Interpreting that zeale which is but naturall passion and choler an humane feaverish and praedatorious not that holy gentle and propitious heate of love which only well digesteth sacred truths So that most men we see had neede to be called upon to love truth and peace In some hopes of preferment will doe much to pervert leaven and suppresse truth warping which way the Sunne of favour shines warmest In others despaire of preferment and popular inclinations may doe as much to disturbe peace and established truth Every way Pronus lapsus major sit cautela Few are true sincere and hearty lovers of them by the Antiperistasis of others coldnesse let the heat of your love grow more intensive 2 Which is the last particular The way most effectually to expresse the love we owe to truth and peace first to truth then to peace to both if possible Amor est pondus animae Love is the weight and motor of the soule the Spring that sets all the wheeles on worke It is a vehement active industrious unwearied invincible affection if rightly placed on worthy objects it workes wonders Amor non potest abscondi the fire of love is impatient to be hid or smothered Nescit nimium never thinks it hath done enough Est extaticus nec sinit amantem esse sui juris it hath a kinde of rapture and extatick power which transports the minde beyond it selfe and dispossesseth it of it selfe to bestow it selfe on that it loves Delicata res est amor It is a tender affection impatient of any injury or dishonour cast on what we love Et sibi lex est severissima Love needs no motive but it selfe to carry it to the extremity of its power If our love then to truth be reall it will shew it selfe 1 In the serious and earnest searching for finding out and discovering of truth for Veritas in profundo Truth is not obvious in the surface of things but hath a depth being sunk and retired from us as now we are There is a great deale of false and loose earth rubbish of Opinions probabilities and falsities to be cast away before wee come to the cleare streame of truth which by secret derivations flowes from the eternall Fountaine God There are not only grosser clouds of errours and falsities which darken truth but parelii too verisimilia seeming sunnes of truth which are but apparences and probabilities of no long continuance He then that will seeke and finde certaine and saving truth must apply himselfe to God his Word and Spirit not take it upon trust and credit of humane fancie or reason Multi taedio investigandae veritatis ad proximos divertunt errores Many out of an easinesse lazinesse or presumption take up truths from custome education prepossessed conceits shew of Antiquity excellency of mens parts c. prone to count that truth which themselves or others have a
of such men Whether they have any intent to reedifie Babels ruines or no I cannot tell some vehemently suspect it sure I am there is such a confussion and noveltie of Language affectated by some men of Altars Sacrifice Priests Corporiety of presence pennance auricular Confession Absolute that is blinde obedience the holy of holys and Adoration which must bee salved from a flat Idolatry or at best an empty formality by some distinction or notion that must be ready at hand that most people know not what they meane what they would have or what they intend to call for next Not that I am ignorant how farre pious antiquity did use these and such like words innocently without ill mind or meaning and without offence to the Church as then times were yet let mee tell you 1. Such swerving from the forme of sound words used in the Primitive and purest times occasioned and strengthened after errours 2. They were not then ingaged to mainetaine Truth against such erroneous and pernicious Doctrines as we now are of the reformed Church which Doctrines are now eagerly maintained by a proud faction who seeke to abuse antiquity and patronize their owne errours by using those names and words to other intents and things than ever was dreamed of by the Ancient Church 3. By such dangerous symbolizing with them in words and some outward formalities we doe but prepare our mindes and sweeten them with lesse distaste to relish their Doctrines and Tenets and as it were in a civill way wee complement our selves out of our Truth giving the adversaries strong hopes and presumptions as they have discovered that wee are inclining towards them To bee ashamed of frequent serious and conscientious preaching which was the worke of Christ and the holy Apostles the honour and chiefe imployment of the Primitive and best Bishops and Ministers in all ages as that deservedly famous Bishop Iewell in his Apologie prooves out of the Fathers sufficiently against the Popes and other idle bellyes which count preaching as a work below their greatnesse as indeede it is above their goodnesse Is this to love the truth To preach ridiculous impertinent flattering or corrupt matter which is the shame of the Pulpit and foolishnesse of preaching in good earnest so as to bring an infinite contempt odium and envie upon the Sacred function of the Ministry that men abhorre the Services of God and daily separate by swarmes from our Church are these the fruites of our love of the Truth Pudet haec opprobria nobis c. Sure there is something extreamely amisse and displeasing to God as well as men either in our Doctrine or manners or hearts or all Else whence should that burthen of dishonour those loades of reproaches be cast upon the Clergy which makes them drive so heavily and this even among Christians and reformed Churches whereas naturally all men though otherwise barbarous and insolent yet are prone to pay a speciall reverence and double honour to their holy men such as are in a more immediate neerenesse and relation to their deitie or gods Now truth carries a Divine Majesty and lustre with it casting a glory on every Moses or Man of God who converseth with it The more truth there is in any religion the more love and honour will arise from the professours to the Preachers of it if they seriously affect the one they cannot scornefully neglect the other God himselfe hath long agoe taught all men especially Church-men in Elyes heavy doome this lesson as an infallible maxime in point of True honour 1 Sam. 2. 30. Those that honour me I will honour and those that despise me shall be lightly regarded Saint Paul gives a charge to Timothy 1 Tim. 4. 12. and to Titus Tit. 2. 15. both Bishops Let no man despise thee c. One would think the Apostle should rather have charged the Ephesians and Cretians not to despise them but the Apostle shewes the true way for Ministers to be Masters of mens love and affections is to be a holy rule and example to mens life and actions To Timothy But be thou an example in word in conversation in love in spirit in faith and in purenesse 1 Tim 4. 12. To Titus Shewing thy selfe a patterne Tit. 2. 7. Certainely had Divines both great and small beene more busied in preaching and practising those great weighty and necessary Truths that are able to save their owne and others soules they would not have had such leisure to have beene so inventive and operative in poore beggerly toyes and trifles which neither bring honour nor profit to God themselves or others Nothing I say nothing will restore the Church and Church-men to their Pristine honour love and authority in mens hearts and minds but a serious setting of themselves to the study preaching and practising of Truth and Peace in a holy life These these were the Arts these the Policies these the pious fraudes and stratagems by which anciently they won peoples hearts to love God his truth and of themselves the witnesse of it To such a height of honour and extasie of love that they received them as Angels of God Embassadors from Heaven counting them deare as their right eyes Humility Piety and industry layd the foundation of all those magnificent structures dignities titles places revenues priviledges wherwith Church-men were anciently indowed what hath or is likely to wast and demolish them is easie to conjecture Iisdem artibus retinenda quibus olim parabantur O consider then I beseech you how precious a jewell how sweete and necessary a blessing we are like to loose by our want of love to it Solem e mundo tollunt what the Sun is to the world that is Gods Truth to our soule the light life joy day and soule of our soules As the darkenesse barrennesse coldnesse and deformity of the earth would be if the Sunne were alwayes absent from it or clouded to it such will the state of our poore soules and our Church be if the healing wings of the Sun of righteousnesse Truth be quite removed or onely a winters Truth clouded deaded and obscured by many superstitious Doctrines and practifes If I say such a truth content us where will be the chearefull light of the promises which now wee enjoy where that onely rock of the soules comfort which no temptation can shake or undermine the free Iustification of our soules by faith in the merits of Christ onely where the sound and well grounded peace of our consciences where the warmth of our zeale love and affections to God from the fiduciary apprehensions of his love to our soules where will be the ravishing joy hopes and expectation of a better life where the zealous care of leading here a holy life will not all these faile us if truth doth and is not truth like to faile if our love doth Are not all those flowers and beauties of our soules and Church heliotropia such as have their life and motion from
have laboured much for Truth and Peace I meane Commenius and Duraeus both famous for their learning piety and integrity and not unknowne I am sure by the fame of their Works to many of this Honourable learned and pious Assembly The one hath laid a faire designe and foundation for the raising up a Structure of Truth Humane and Divine of excellent use to all man-kinde for the easinesse and exquisitenesse of attaining the true knowledge of things The other hath long studied and with great paines endeavoured and well advanced the peace and unity of the reformed Churches a blessing that cannot be purchased at too dearea a rate whereunto hee hath the suffrages and assistance of many learned Divines and some of our owne especially the reverend Bishop of Salisbury as you may see in his letters to him and his late tractate De pace Ecclesiastica c. But alas both these noble plants to the infinite shame and reproach of the present age to the losse and detriment of the future a 〈…〉 like to wither to a barrennesse for want of publique incouragement and aid to goe on in so noble great and usefull undertakings I leave it to your Wisedomes at your leysure to consider whether it were not worthy the name and honour of this State and Church to invite these men to you to see and weigh their noble and excellent designes to give them all publike ayde and incouragement to goe on and perfect so happy Workes which tend so much to the advancing of Truth and Peace * But to return to your particular and neerer concernements If you love your selves your relations wives children houses lands libertiâ—s lives and honours if you love your King your Country your Church your coÌ„sciences your soules your Saviour your God Love the truth and Peace but heartily sincerely couragiously constantly Let your faith in the truth worke and shew it selfe by an active love of the truth Shall the Adversaries of our Truth and Peace be so bold vigilant and desperately active for the bringing in of their shaddowes lyes paintings and adulteries of Truth and Religion and shall we be cold remisse and timerous Shall they as Assasinates be prodigall of their owne and our bloods and shall we be sparing of our words estates or persons Hoc agite Doe then Gods businesse and the Kings and the Countries and in them all your owne Doe them worthy of your selves worthy of the honour of this Church and State worthy the memory and renowne of your Ancestors worthy the expectation of the world both at home and abroad the eyes of all Christendome being upon you especially the Reformed Churches whose hopes and prayers meete in you Doe them worthy the Majesty and favour of our gracious King worthy of the truth worthy of the glory of our God and great Redeemer At once shew yourselves good Subjects good Patriots good Counsellors good Men good Christians You have long enjoyed Truth and Peace therfore love them No Nation under Heaven hath more cause and will be lesse excusable therefore love them none hath had a clearer light of Truth and a greater length of Peace therefore love them you and yours have long thrived by them therefore love them you have Fasted and Prayed for the preservation of them therefore love them you are this day solemnely to renew your Covenant with God in the holy Sacrament the Seale of Gods love to you and yours to him therefore love the truth and peace for they are Gods And upon the heate and sacred flames which by this dayes duties possesse your affections take up I beseech you serious resolutions and make tacit vowes in your selves to God that you will love the truth and peace and by all lawfull wayes for other they neitherneed nor will allow seeke to advance them None are fit and prepared to receive but such as have hearts filled with this love none will have the comfort of worthy receiving but such as daily increase and persevere in this love For Conclusion I will use the last and weightiest argument in the world which raised the victorious soule of that great Apostle Saint Paul to such an invincible patience and unwearied Activenesse for Gods glory and the Churches good 2 Cor. â— 14. O let the love of Christ constraine you that free preventive transcendent love that humbled sorrowing sweating bleeding crying crucified dying love which this day is presented to you who loved our soules more than his owne life Greater love can no man expresse greater motive to love can no man desire Quid amplius pro se facere aut pati potuit quam pro te fecit passus est Christus What could Christ have done or suffered more if hee had beene to redeeme himselfe then hee hath both done and suffered to ransome thee and me Content to make himselfe the object of his Fathers wrath whom he infinitely loved that he might procure our peace O what shall wee render to him againe for this excessive love but an unfained love of him and his Church his Truth and Glory an undaunted zeale for his Honour and Worship for the purity and peace of his Church These are the things you shall doe speake yee every man the truth to his neighbour Execute the judgement of Truth Peace in your gates That so it may be fulfilled on you and us all which the Prophet prayes Esay 26. 2. The gates of mercy and peace here of glory and happinesse hereafter may be opened so that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter therein FINIS Acontius straing Sat. â—ing 3. 25. Mich. 4. 4. 1 Tim. 4 3. 1 Kings 22. Tâ—rtul Mal. 4. 1 Sam. 4. 21. D. de Rohan Interest des estates Angle terre est ungrand animal qui ne mourira ja mais si lue se tue luymesme Dur 〈…〉 s. Cousmenius * Whereunto if it shall please God to encline any of your thoughts for the effectuall promoting of so commendable purposâ—s notwithstanding the distances whereat they now are the one being in â—â—land the other in Deâ—marke yet there is a faire easie and safe way of addresses to them both opened by the industry and fidelâ—ty of Mr. Hartliâ—e whose house is in Dukes place in London a Gentleman who hath beene a constant furtherer and great coadjutor witâ— them both in their Works who hath correspondence with them whose learning piâ—â—y and unwearied industry towards the publike good are so well knowne to the learned world and many of your selves as well as to me that he needs not the farther testimony of my Pen Zach. 8. 16.