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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

to be minded and practised by all viz. Let your moderation be known to all men Phil. 4.5 and why because the Lord who is the great Judge of all is at hand he is near This doth not only relate to our Eating Drinking c. appertaining to the outward Man but also respects an Immoderate or Blind Zeal in such who are apt to be too forward and severe in their Judging Censuring and Condemning of others Such may also read the 14th Chap. Virtusstat in medio of Pauls Epistle to the Romans especially the 4 5 and 10. verses And as one wisely observes that in Nature we see all Heat Consumes all Cold Kills that three degrees of Cold and two of Heat allays the heat but introduces the contrary quality and overcools by a degree but two degrees of Cold to two of Heat make a poize in Elements and a ballance in Nature c. Besides as the Maxim is nullum extremum est perpetuum There is no Extreme that 's lasting as we have had many experiences XVIII Plutarch Apoth Notable and very Remarkable is that passage concerning Silurnus an Heathen Parent so called who having many Children and fearing lest some unquietness should grow between them to the end he might the better persuade them to entertain a constant Peace and Concord between themselves he took a Sheaf of many Arrows and offerded it to each of his Children one after another willing them to break it but they could not so long as the Arrows were altogether in one Bundle At last pulling forth the Arrows one by one it was an easy matter for them to break them all one after another even thus said their Father it is with you so long as you remain united and love each other no Man can hurt or break you Note this well but if once ye be dissevered one from another by strife or variance every Man may easily destroy you Strife and Variance between Brethren whether upon a Natural or Spiritual account is a thing most barbarous and prodigious and all Enmity saith a wise Heathen so termed breedeth within our selves a thousand tormenting passions Plutarch but especially between Brother and Brother XIX When Socrates saw Cherephom and Cherecrates two Brethren Zenoph lib. 2. de dict fact Soerat jarring and warring each with other he said unto them ye do now as if the Hands which were created to help one the other should hinder and hurt each other or as if the Feet which were framed to bear one anothers burden should supplant one another or as if the Ears Coadjutors of mutual good should wax deaf to hear good one of another or as if the Eyes which are fellow-spies for the good each of other should look asquint at the good one of another Let none hold together like Simeon and Levi Brethren in evil and mischief but like David and Jonathan to preserve one another from evil c. It s said of the former two in Gen 49.5 Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations Or as in the Margin their words are Weapons of Violence O my soul come not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honour be not thou united for in their anger they slew a Man and in their selfwill they digged down a wall Cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath Isa 59.8 9 c. for it was cruel I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel Pray Friends read and consider the Characters of those of old concerning whom it is said that the way of Peace they know not and if we do know it and yet do not walk in it nor pursue peace it will be far worse for us XX. O let not our Lord when he cometh find any of us smiting or beating our Fellow-servants neither let any give just cause to say of them as of him of old It is thou and thy Fathers House that troubleth Israel c. that do chiefly obstruct that peace Concord and Reconciliation amongst us which is so earnestly desired by many on both sides such may be said to be as observed by one neither Actively Peceable nor Passively Peaceable neither as Peace-makers nor Peace-takers and so in some sense may be accounted also the Peace-breakers And these are they that both raise and keep up Strife and Contention and Discord among Brethren Ja. 3.81 Whose Tongues are fall of deadly Poison which setteth on Fire the course of nature Prov. 12.18 it self being set on Fire of Hell For tho' there be that speak like the piercings of a Sword yet their words may be sometimes even smoother than Oyl XXI The Tongue as Petrarch says is the mighty Bellows to blow up strife c. and grievous words says the wise Man stir up anger But the discretion of a Man differeth his Anger or is seen by his patience as some render it Prov. 19.11 and it is his glory to pass over a transgression And as there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet not washed from their filthiness of both Flesh Spirit O how lofty are their Eyes and Eyelids lifted up so there is a generation Whose Teeth are as Swords and their Jaw-Teeth as Knives Psal 55.21 and are there not some whose words are smoother than Butter and softer than Oyl and yet be they very swords c. XXI Remarkable is that Golden sentence of that Golden Mouthed Father Chrysostom as he is called Didst thou know saith he the worth of Peace and Quietness or consider the sweetness of it thou wouldest sell all that thou hast to buy it were it present thou woudlst welcome it were it absent thou wouldst make search after it were it lost thou wouldst never leave until thou hadst recovered it were it to be bought thou wouldst think no Silver or Gold too much to procure it XXII Let us also take notice what Luther Pag. 299. that worthy and famous Reformer says in his Commentary on 133 Psal It is saith he a commendation of Peace and Unity to the end we should esteem it as an excellent and Holy gift and that we should rather sustain the loss of all things else than give occasion of Dissention and Discord for if we must suffer any loss it ought to be born patiently in this respect that all other things through Peace are recovered and reslored again as one said very well I never bought any thing better cheap than Peace for to the Buyer it bringeth most plentiful Fruit for we see oftentimes in our private affairs that if a Man be content to lose ten or twenty Crowns that he may live in Peace and quietness he winneth thereby great Gain and Commodity c. He also saith in another place That truth is not lost by teaching but by disputing and contending the Minds of Men being carried away by the heat thereof they neglect those things whichmost of all they ought to