Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	esquire_n	justice_n	recusant_n	3,044	5	15.3638	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70378	The true euangelical temper wherein divinity and ecclesiastical history are interwoven, and mixed, both to the profit and delight of the Christian reader, and moderately, and soberly fitted to the present grand concernments of this state, and church / preached in three sermons at St. Martins in the Strand ... by Jo. Jackson.	Jackson, John.	1641 (1641)	Wing J76B; ESTC R24398	51,187	243

whose bodies lye at Westminster with Kings and Counsellers of the earth who have there made themselves desolate places as Iob opened his mouth Chap. 3. vers. 14. And to second this whilst I am transcribing these Schedules and while these Sermons were betweene the Pulpit and the Presse loe what happened in the same place on Saturday being the 21. of this instant November 1640. Iohn Iames a Popish Recusant with a rusty dagger came into Westminster-hall and there did stab into the breast Peter Heywood Esquire one of the Kings Justices of the Peace within the limits of Westminster as hee was going up to the Committee for Religion to give up a booke of the names of all the Papists which inhabited or sojourned within the said limits being thereunto required by Parliament An attempt so daring and bold as nothing could bee more for if circumstances which individuate an action bee considered it will easily so appeare without any flow of words to greaten it The Gentleman being venerable for age and white and blooming as an Almond-tree in the very seats of secular justice the great Court of Parliament being convened and the Committees then sitting upon the person of a Justice of Peace being imployed about that businesse by the Parliament upon the very day before the House was to receive the holy Communion and which by that sudden and barbarous act was so unframed as that they were forced 〈◊〉 adjourne that holy businesse c. I hold mine own Religion so good as it needs not fetch lustre from the disgrace of another It is a poor Religion that must ascend and climbe up to its own glory by anothers dishonour and shame but these things are so palpable and apparent as if we should hold our peace the very stones out of the wall and the timber out of the roofe of that structure would speak But to the third Use which is The Vse of Correction ANd the last Use of redargution did not lie more direct against the whole bulk of Popery then the Use of Correction doth here against those publique Incendiaries and Conflagrators of the world who are all for the sword and war l Let them see to it who are such movers and stirrers up of warre saith Musculus upon this Text And let them look to it indeed who know onely how to ride the red horse of warre and take peace from the earth and kill one another Apoc. 6.4 who cry till they be hoarse again as they Iudges 7.20 The sword of the Lord and of Gideon who have ever in their mouthes that of Peter Master shall I smite Like Caesars souldier Doth the Senate deny my Master the Consulship but m this sword shall give it him But when shall you hear them speak in that phrase of the Prophet Ieremy Chap. 47. ver. 6. O thou sword of the Lord how long will it be ere thou be quiet put up thy selfe into thy scabbard rest and be still They are not for Esayes Prophecy of turning swords into plowshares c. but all for Ioels Chap. 3. of turning plowshares into swords c. These know not what spirit themselves are of I am sure farre from an Euangelicall spirit and temper The way of peace they have not knowne So farre from kennelling the Wolfe and the Lamb together or from stalling the Oxe and Lyon together as they foment and adde fuell to their inimicitious qualities I am not slipt into that Anabaptisticall conceit and tenet whereinto they say both Erasmus and Ferus two Beaucle●●s fell that all warres were utterly unlawfull under the Gospel Holinesse to the Lord is found written upon n the bridles of horses which is a warlike beast as well as upon the high Priests frontlet which is a man of peace I will not now enter upon the point my self but referre onely him that is scrupulous herein unto a most learned and satisfactory Author Grotius in the first Booke and second Chapter De jure belli pacis wherein he proves just warres to be lawfull both by the law of nature and by the law of Nations and by Divine Law before the Gospell and lastly by the verdict even of the Gospel it self Neverthelesse the most can be said for warre is this that it may be necessary it cannot be good of it selfe even the same that was said of Aurelian a severe man A man rather necessary then good The best plea it hath in Divinity is either permission as Moses suffered divorce in small cases by reason of the hardnesse of mens hearts or necessity as David ate the Shew-bread and the Disciples plucked the eares of corn on the Sabbath day being driven thereto by hunger The direfull effects and sad consequences of War are so many and great as they may seem to require a just Volume I will bestow this one Paragraph in pointing at them And I will begin with two notable emblemes of the misery that is in Warre The one the Hawk and the Bitturn lying upon the ground with this word o No safety at all in Warre The Hawk hath struck down the Bitturn and seazed upon it and the Bitturne lying under strikes his bill upward through the Hawkes gorge The other is two pots floting upon a pond or surface of a water with this word p If we knock together we sink together In Warre any one may begin but it is in the power of the Conqueror when to end In Warre even the Conqueror is commonly a loser In Warre Fathers bury children whereas in peace children burie Fathers as Croesus Apophthegmatized when he was captivated by Cyrus In War holy things are projected to dogges witnesse that illustrious Temple of Jerusalem which was forty sixe years in building but scarce as many houres in demolishing In Warre every man is a Gadarene respecting a swine more then a man witnesse Titus Vespasian who in the sacking of Jerusalem sold thirty Jews for a peny to be a tulio to them who had sold Christ for thirty pence In War old men bow themselves at the feet of their enemy with as many teares and prayers as a dry brain and a faltring tongue can afford Women are distracted between care for the fruit of their bodies to preserve their children from sword and the sin of their soules to preserve their chastity from lust Lastly to say no more in Warre the barbarous Souldier ransacks houses breaks open locks rifles chests ravisheth wives and daughters blunts his sword with the blood of Fathers and sons and like Sampsons Foxes set on fire whole fields of corne These and such like things have occasioned many fair and goodly Proverbs and Apophthegmes whereinto a great deale of wisedome is abridged beside the character of Antiquity that is now stamped upon them As that of Probus the Emperour for one q I hope shortly Souldiers shall not be so much as necessary That of Antonius Pius taken up from Scipio That he had rather save one