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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	bring_v	good_a	tiding_n	2,863	5	11.4428	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78027	The peace-maker: or, Solid reasons, perswading to peace: grounded upon the late Solemn covenant. / By H.B.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1646 (1646)	Wing B6170; Thomason E329_5; ESTC R200689	7,997	12

The Peace-maker OR Solid REASONS perswading to PEACE Grounded upon the late Solomn Covenant By H. B. ESA. 52. 7. How beautifull upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth Peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publisheth salvation that saith unto Sion Thy GOD reigneth ZACH. 8. 19. Love the TRVTH and PEACE LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1646. A Pacifique OR Solid Reasons perswading to Peace Grounded upon the late solemn Covenant SWeet is the name of Peace but the thing it self when enjoyed much more sweet and most of all after long War as a Sun-shine after a Storm But what Peace Or with whom Surely at least a Civill peace and that with ●ll men if possible so far as peace with men breaks not our pe●●e with God Not a peace with Amaleck or Antichrist with whom the God of Peace will have immortall War But peace amongst those that professe to be the children of peace and friends to Truth as all those do who at this day in City and Country are engaged in the common Cause against the common Enemy Peace I say even amongst dissenting brethren is that here aymed at and desired Now the Reasons perswading to this peace are chiefly taken from the late solemne Covenant for Reformation and for the uniting of the three Kingdomes against the common enemy So as unreasonable it were for any so to strain the genuine sense of the Covenant as to wring blood out of it by forcing it beyond its bounds And therefore for the removing of all Bars obstructing the way to a safe and sound peace let us seriously weigh some principall passages in the said solemn Covenant The first is That we shall sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God indeavour in our severall places and callings the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government against our common Enemies True Against our common Enemies And who are they but the whole faction of Papists the Antichristian Adversary who seek to destroy all that Religion which is termed Protestant and Reformed Against these I say we do by this Covenant oblige our indeavour to preserve c. But hereby we do not bind our selves to set up in England the Religion which is in the Church of Scotland as making that a pattern and a binding Law to us Surely we never intended any such thing in the taking of it otherwise how could we without dishonour to God ingage the Grace of God saying Through the Grace of God For we should be a very ungracious and unworthy Nation without any further caution or proviso to tie up our Consciences to a conformity to anothers Religion although we may have a charitable opinion of it before we have first examined it in all points whether it be according to the Rule Yea we did expresse thus much when we took the Covenant For we hold no Church nor Nation to be infallible nor any Church Reformation so exact in all points as to challenge to it self a power to bind other Churches It is not for a free-born People especially Christs free-born to swear to any such blind obedience Yea we should therein swear to a grosse contradiction in our Covenant where we promise to extirpate all Popery whereof blind obedience is one of the main Pillars as without which what were the Papal Supremacy but as a brutum fulmen a buzzing Bee without a sting And yet we may see into what an inextricable Labyrinth this one blind misconceit would lead us through the grosse and intollerable mistake of this first passage in our Covenant In so much as ●● this miserable mistak● be not the more speedily corrected and cured it threatens at this very time utter ruine to ou● City and Country Good God! What 's become of ou● common prud●●● not to see our danger through importune haste to ●●●o our selves O●●●ver let it be verified of England of London prophesied long ago Esay 29. 14. B 〈…〉 will proc●ed to do a marrvellous work amongst this People even a marvellous work and a wonder For the wisdome of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of the prudent men shall be hid And wherefore Therefore saith the Lord there Even because ver 13. This People draw near me with their mouth and with their lips do honour me but have removed their heart far from me and their feare toward me is taught by the precept of men Therefore c. Read the word and apply it We swear to a Reformation in Religion What Whose O you worthy Senate of London heare and feare and be wise Remember you are English bred nay I hop● Heaven-bre●● Subject not your Consciences to men for he that is Lord over the Conscience is Lord over all We love our neighbours the Scots as they have deserved and we are ready upon occasion to defend them against the common Enemy according to our Covenant but all must be usque ad aras not to subject our Consciences to them Therefore my good hearts let not any spirit of errour possefle you And let not the Crown of Honour which God ●●th put upon London in using you as instruments to rescue this Kingdome be now cast in the 〈…〉 The Parliament loves and honours you so do you it Let none divide between you Wait upon God in all your desires who hath hitherto 〈…〉 ously appeared for the Parliament both in Providence and Power● 〈…〉 God 's ti●● is and what seems good unto his Wisdo●● you sh●ll obtaine of him above your desires And assure your 〈…〉 through our disunions the Parliament should miscarry in the 〈…〉 C●●●e in hand not all ●u● 〈…〉 st professed friends in the world 〈…〉 us from perishing It was a bad sign to Jerusalem when it was said A Jer. 5. 31. wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the L●●d The P●●phets prophecie fa●st and the Priests bear rule by their means and my People love to have it so And what will you do in the end thereof The Lord deliver this City from all such sad presages But I passe to the second main Passage in the Covenant The Reformation of Religion in the Kingdome of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD. Here is set down the sole and suprame Rule of Church-Reformation THE WORD OF GOD. That this is the sole Rule we all agree So that this must be the Touchstone to try the Gold whether it be as pure for substance as in appearance To this Rule the Reformation both in Scotland and England must be reduced Therefore although we shall endeavour as afore the preservation of that Reformed Religion in Scotland against our common Enemies yet we do not binde our selves to the erection and so preservation of the same in England But it is added And the example of the best Reformed