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A67182 The beauty of unity in a sermon preached at Preston in Lancashire at the opening of the Guide-merchant held there, September 4, 1682 / by Richard Wroe ... Wroe, Richard, 1641-1717. 1682 (1682) Wing W3726; ESTC R31851 15,914 42

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leave others to the duties of their Station and content our selves with the choice Providence has made for us and not peevishly think to be our own Carvers Every Member says the Apostle Rom. 12. 4 has not the same Office Having therefore different Callings Gifts and Places let every man wait upon and move in his own and therein study to be quiet and do his own business Let the Lawyer Plead and the Merchant Trade let Rulers make Laws and their Subjects keep them let the King Govern and the People Obey him let the Minister Preach and Pray and let the People say Amen And if we thus do our own business we shall like Brethren dwell together in Unity But if there be amongst you Tatlers and Busie-bodies Medlers in State or Bigots in Religion that value not the Apostles excellent advice I leave with you another Direction of his proper for them which is 2. The Caution he gives to the Romans 16. 17. Mark them which cause Divisions and Offences and avoid them beware of their Insinuations and refrain their Converse and Familiarity and set a mark upon them I mean not a mark of private Grudg and Revenge but of turbulent restless Spirits whose ill suggestions are not to be credited whose Dissensions are to be avoided a mark of Shame and Disgrace that if their own impudence will not let them blush others may be ashamed of their folly a mark of Infamy and Reproach that we may shun their Company since an Enemy to Peace is no mans friend and every Author of Mischief and Disturbance is to be lookt upon as a common Pest and publick Nuisance Lastly a mark of Distinction which the Laws set on them and were they duly put in Execution would be the surest Antidote against the Poyson of their envenom'd Tongues the malice of their seditious whispers and let none think it Cruelty or Severity to have such men made exemplary as slander the Government and calumniate their Governours since they are men that obey more for Wrath than for Conscience sake whom nothing can restrain but fear of the Penalty and without such a restraint no Government can be safe or quiet and let the Magistrate know that in this respect he bears not the sword in vain but that it ought chiefly to be drawn against such offenders as foment Dissentions and disturb publick Peace and Tranquillity I hope there is no great need in this Place to press the Magistrate to his Duty in this respect nor any great Occasion for it I am confident there would be far less need of it were but these two directions of the Apostle observed were such as cause Divisions avoided and would we all study to be quiet and do our own business I know nothing more effectual to that Unity which I have all along recommended nor any means more certain to make us an happy People happy are you if you know and value your own happiness which doubtless you will if all that has been said to endear Unity and Agreement has had its due effect upon all that hear me It has been a scandal thrown on several Corporations that they have been Nurseries of Schism and Faction May it never be the complaint of yours but rather may your Amity and Friendship be as peculiar and remarkable as your Guild and your Unity be Published where-ever that is Proclaimed and may it not only like your Franchises be renewed once in twenty years but continued all that Time and maintain'd inviolable that successive Generations may still behold amongst you the same grateful prospect of Brotherly Love and Kindness and twenty years hence rejoyce to behold in your Example how good and pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in Unity Now to the God of Unity Peace and Order to the Father Son and Holy Ghost Three Persons and One God be all Honour Glory and Praise now and for evermore Amen FINIS