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peace_n	create_v	fruit_n	lip_n	2,112	5	9.2614	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02590	A sermon preached at the happily-restored and reedified chappell of the Right Honorable the Earle of Exceter in his house, of S. Iohns On Saint Stephens day. 1623 By Ios. Hall, Deane of Worcester.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1624 (1624)	STC 12714; ESTC S115163	12,555	54

looke towards the Temple if they could not come to it in their deuotions So now that the Church is Catholike or vniuersall and euery of our Churches is equally Gods house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we shal gladly with Peter and John goe vp to this Temple to pray How can wee looke for a better incouragement then God giues vs here In this place will I giue peace In the latter as it is Auditoriū so I create the fruit of the lips to be peace saith God Naturally we are all euen those that applaud themselues in the best opinion of their harmeles and faire disposition enemies to God Enemies both actiuely passiuely Actiuely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God-haters Rom. 1. Passiuely Filii irae The sons of displeasure Wee fell out in Adam through our own wilfull Apostasie and disobedience and we still stand out in the maintenance of our inward corruption There is no way to peace but by reconciliation there is no way to recōciliation but by the Gospel of Iesus Christ which is Euangelium pacis there is no proper element for the Gospell of God but the house of God Locus iste Jn this place will J giue peace It is not I know for euery hart to apprehend either the want of this peace or the miserie of this want This is one of those happinesses which is most brag'd of where it is least had The sensual Securitan pleases himself in the conceit of his owne peace All is well at home he quarrels not with himselfe for hee denies himselfe nothing God quarrels not with him here are no checks of a chiding conscience no frownes of an angrie Iudge nothing but Pulchritudo pacis as the Prophet speakes Alas my beloued call not this peace call it stupiditie euen Hell it selfe is not a Kingdome diuided in it selfe There is no blessing which is not also counterfeited Pacem veram dabo is the stile of the Prophets Ier. 14. 13. This were a needlesse Epithet if there were not a false peace such is this of carnall hearts That Word of eternall Truth must stand There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Haue you seene a sore suddenly fild vp with vnsound flesh and fairely skinned ouer without all offence to the eie which ere long will breake out againe and bewray a secret and so much-more-hardly-cured corruptiō Such is a wicked mans peace Haue you seene a slaue sit quietly in the Gally not struggling with his chaine not repining at his Oare necessitas fortiter consuetudo facile Haue you heard a dying man professe that hee felt no paine Such is a wicked mans peace of which he shall once say though now all seeme smooth and plausible Jn pace amaritudo mea amarissima Jn peace J had great bitternesse Esay 38. 17. Neither is the want of this peace lesse perceiued then the misery of this want Men see no difference in the face of Heauen whatsoeuer they doe their blasphemies and prayers find the same intertainement therefore the carelesse man resolues I shall haue peace though I follow the wayes of mine owne heart Oh the miserable sottishnesse of wilfull sinners Sinne lyes like a sleeping Bandog at the doore of their heart they looke vpon him as if hee would neuer wake or as if though he should yet he were so clogged and chained and muzled that there can be no danger of his hurt Let God but rowze him vp a little he shall bay them to despaire hee shall flie vpon them and pull out their throats Then shall their troubled heart proiect terrible things and they shall feele what it is to liue in the anger of a God They shall see the Almightie putting himselfe into the fearefull formes of vengeance Who can stand before his indignation And who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger His furie is powred out like fire and the rocks are throwne downe before him Nahum 1. 6. And if his very loue haue drawne blood of his deare ones Terrores Domini militant contra me saith holy Iob The terrors of the Lord are set in aray against mee Iob 6. 4 and hee that bore the chastisements of our peace the Sonne of his loue could lay My God my God why hast thou for saken me Oh what shall be the Iudgements of his wrath If this be the rod of children Oh what shall be the Scorpions for his enemies They shall see that gulfe of fire ready to receiue them into euerlasting burnings They shall see the Deuils their incessant tormentors ready to seize vpon their guilty soules Then O then shall they know too late what an happinesse it is that God here promises Dabo pacem Would we then auoyde the vnspeakeable horror of this wofull condition Would wee find the bed of our sicknesse and death comforted with the sweete testimony of an heauenly peace betwixt God and our soules See whence we must fetch it Jn this place will J giue peace If euer we haue it wee must haue it from the blessed ordinances of God his Word and Sacraments which this place can affoord vs. In vaine shall yee seeke for this deare Christians in a licentious Tauerne in a rich Counting-house in Chambers of dalliance in full Tables in Pompous Courts no not in thrones of earthly Maiestie Alas many of these are the make-bates betwixt Heauen and vs most of them can marre none of them can make our peace It is onely the despised Ministery of the Gospell the Word of reconciliation as it is called 2. Cor. 5. 19. which sounds in Gods House that can doe it As yee loue your soules therefore as you would find peace at the last and would looke with a comfortable assurance in the face of death and iudgement as yee would see a gracious Mercy-seate in the dreadfull Tribunall of God at the day of our last appearance frequent the House of God attend reuerently and conscionably vpon the sacred Institutions of God yeeld your selues ouer to be wrought vpon by the powerfull Gospel of Iesus Christ Oh be not you wanting vnto God he will not bee wanting vnto you but will make good this promise of his vnfaileable grace Jn this place will I giue peace It is a great word that is heere spoken Dabo pacem and therfore it is vndertakē by an omnipotent Agent I will giue peace If all the Angels of Heauen should haue said so we should soone haue replied as Korah and his company did to Moses and Aaron Yee took too much vpon you Numbers 16. 3. This worke is not for any finite power the stile of peace is the peace of God the stile of God the Mediator betwixt God and man is The Prince of Peace He is the true Salomon the other was but typicall It is he onely that when the Disciples were tossed with contrary winds and threatning billowes could command the winds and waues to a calme It is hee onely that when his Church is tossed with the winds and