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nation_n	lord_n	mountain_n	top_n	1,666	5	9.5413	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62154	An expedient for peace, or some Christian and reasonable proposals, once more renewed and offered again to Friends of Reading conducing to an amicable composure of differences among them: with a healing epistle to them from Friends of Bristol, on both sides, tenderly advising them to meet all together again in their ancient publick meeting house. As also a seasonable expostulation and a persuasive to a reconciliation, with some remarkable testimonies added to promote the same and several objections against it answered, which may tend to a general service.	Sandilands, Robert.	1692 (1692)	Wing S658; ESTC R222483	58,787	79

So will the Prophecy have had its accomplishment in our Fathers Days and shall in ours enjoy the Calm after all these Tempests Let us add hereunto that as the Scripture foretels us these Divisions so it also makes us hope for an Estate of Peace and Quiet in the Church It makes Times of refreshment and ease to succeed all these great disturbances and assures us that there shall be such a firm Peace in the Earth that we shall see the Woolf dwell with the Lamb c. For it is prophesied That in the last days the Mountains of the Lords House Isa 2.3 4. shall be established in the Top of the Mountains and shall be exalted above the Hills and that the Lord himself shall judge among the Nations and rebuke many People and they shall beat their Swords into Plow-shears and their Spears into pruning books Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation neither shall they learn War any more Isa 11.9 And it is said also That they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my Holy Mountain O this will be a blessed day and happy Times indeed when all that which hurts or destroys upon any account comes to be destroyed and reproved Then may it be hoped that all these many uncomfortable and fruitless Contentions Controversies and Quarrels will come to an end true and Love Peace Concord Union and Reconciliation prevail and take place Which O God of Infinite Love hasten to bring to pass amongst us and all People every where for thy Dear Son Jesus Christ his sake who is the great Prince of Peace who came to Reconcile Mankind to thee and one to another and who tasted Death for every Man and shed his most precious Blood by and through which all might be brought nigh to the Lord and one to another out of all the enmity strife variance hatred prejudice and envy and to live together in Love Peace and Friendship in his pure fear and holy dread to the praise of his great Name who over all and by all is alone worthy to be Reverenced and renowned exalted and adored forever and ever more Amen Object 3d. There is another Objection still behind to be answered and that is if it be said suppose all be true as above cited concerning both parties to be less or more blame-worthy yet ought not those who are most in the wrong and have been the greatest cause of those Jumbles c. and given the lightest Provocations in divers respects should not these begin first and acknowledg c. Whatever weight this may have as is usually urged amongst the great and proud ones and State-Politicians of this World whose Grandeur and Honour makes them very loath to bend or bow one to another when they have quarrelled one thinks it below him and so another the same to submit first yet sure it ought not to have any place amongst us or any true Christians Ans All must conclude this to be a good work to make Peace or Reconciliation Now Friends which of the two is really most capable first to begin the same those that have most or those that have least transgressed whom shall we expect to be most Instrumental herein But certainly whoever they are that begin first and endeavour most to promote this blessed Work whether they are the most or least to be blamed will however in this deserve to be most praised and commended and will conduce most both to their true Peace and Honour and never will have cause to repent how forward how humble and condescending they were in this matter and are willing though in many things innocent to come under and seem more to be blamed than really they deserve Let us remember what Paul that humble Apostle said and how far he condescended to be made all things to all Men. To the weak he became as weak 1 Cor. 9.22 c. We know that Condescention Lowliness Tenderness Humility c. is very much both commended and pretended to by many but alas is it not as little practised Now here is a Trial for us all who will be really most in the Christian exercise of it However it will be well for those that do their part and if others refuse to do theirs and be obstinate churlish refractory stiff and wilful and appear still implacable captious and Irreconcilable let them look to it the weight of it will certainly be heavy on their Heads at last And whoever they are here are none named that have been or still are the chief occasion or cause of being a let to and preventing of Reconciliation and of its being stopped and not prosecuted nor accomplished amongst us doubtless the Lord God the most Just Righteous and impartial Judg of all who is no respecter of Persons will require it of them one day and call them to an account and they must answer to him for it and unless in time repented of they must bear the weight of it however at present or for a time they may slight it and put it off at an overly rate and account themselves Innocent as those of old did tho' they were very guilty and yet had great confidences in whose very skirts was found the Blood of the Souls of the poor Innocents Jer. 2.35 c. O the Blood of the Souls of many poor Innocents that have been hurt and wounded on the one Hand and stumbled on the other Hand by these things amongst us and instead of pursuing Peace do reject all Christian and reasonable offers of making Peace so let all such as find themselves concerned herein whosoever they be look about them and see to it in time if so be as yet it be not too late for really the Matter is of greater importance and of a far weightier concern and consequence than possibly they may at present be aware of But there is another objection still and which is the last tho' none of the least or weakest but what may seem to some to be the most weighty of all and it s thus farely stated Obj. 4. It may then be said by some To what purpose should we so much as think of meeting all together again either in the old publick Meeting-house or any where else VNLESS there might be first some certain ground to expect that our meetings woudl be more quiet peaceable and comfortable to us than they were some time before we parted It is not yet forgot by many amongst us what sad Distractions and Confusions what publick Oppositions and open Contentions Smitings and Clashings appeared in our solemn Assemblies when we came together to wait upon and worship the great God O what sad Reflections and aggravations one against another both to the great dishonour of the Name of the Lord and also to our shame and reproach of our holy profession And with what grief and sorrow of Heart did these things cause many to go away from each other in a mournful condition to see