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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42489	The love of truth and peace a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament, Novemb. 29, 1640 / by Iohn Gauden ...	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1641 (1641)	Wing G363; ESTC R492	24,201	54

Zach. 8. 16. Execute the judgement of Truth and Peace in your gates By the third our soules health and happinesse are maintained while we see know beleeve and rest upon those excellent and saving truths which God hath in his word revealed to us in the plainenesse and simplicity of the sense not denying or doubting any thing but humbly and willingly embracing every truth revealed as it agrees to the generall rule and Analogy of Faith contained in the holy Scriptures this is Veritas fidei religionis The first truth wee gaine by senses and discourse The second by common notions or inbred principles of reason The third by divine revelation depending upon the veracitie infa●libility and authority of God No truth is to be neglected because it is a beame or lineament of God but those are most to bee loved and esteemed which discover God most cleerly to us bring us nearest and make us likest to him This as the most excellent and usefull truth I chiefly here understand which exceeds all others as much as the soule doth the body or eternity a moment And in this mens hearts are most prone to be negligent and coldly affected 2. Peace Peace in any kinde and under any notion is sweet and lovely {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Naz. We can better tell what it is by the fruition than description of it what health is to the body and calmnesse to the sea and serenity to the day such is peace which ariseth from the fit orderly and proportionable disposing of things It is a kinde of sweet divine and heavenly concent harmony or beauty of things subordinate one to another Such it is first peace in nature and the greater World from the wise and apt combination of creatures by symbolicall qualities so contempered that all agree to make up one intire body the World 2. In the lesser worlds of mixt bodies Peace is that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} due temper and moderation of humours and parts which keep their true place and proportion Quá quodlibet corpus non minus appetit unitatem suam quam entitatem 3. In the rationall World Peace is that composednesse and tranquillity of the soule whereby all the inferiour faculties and the populacy of affections or passions are regular and subject to the rule and soveraignty of reason 4. In the spirituall world the regenerate soule Peace is the humble and willing subjection and sutablenesse of the conscience in all things to the Will and Spirit of God 5. In the Politicall or civill world the State or Church Peace is the setling and due ordering of things by just Lawes of government and by true grounds or rules of Piety and Religion whereto all submit It consists {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the right skill of governing and will to be governed When all agree in one thing all think speak and do by the same thing all conspire in one maine end the glory of God and the publick good which is the supreame Law when all are setled on one ground move by one rule and tend to one end Truth Order and Iustice are the only foundation and pillars of Peace in both Church and Common-wealth 2. The second consideration is the union of the two Truth and Peace In God they are united and so in every good soule well ordered Church or State they may and doe best agree together no firme or durable peace which is not fastned and cemented with truth so false and pernicious a principle is that of some that the lesse men know of truth the more easily they will bee kept in Peace that the way to subdue men to an asinine patience is to cast them into an asinine ignorance Whereas on the contrary no men or minds are more obedientially disposed to an heroick patience as to the burthens pressures and exactions upon their states and liberties c. than they who are best informed how little all these worldly things are to be valued having hopes of farre better And no men are more stubbornely contumacious refractory and prone to flame to rebellion and munity than they who know and expect no better or higher good than those of sense and present life who think you robbe them of their heaven God and all happinesse if you injure them in their estates honours or liberties Those subjects are most shie and prone to start from obedience and fall from peace who live by Moone-light of humane reason and senses onely which amazeth their minds with the shadowes of good in riches pleasures honours and liberties temporall and walke not by the Sunne-shine of divine truth which discovers the onely necessary excellent and satisfactory objects worthy of the soules love and acceptance for nothing is truly lovely which is not spirituall and eternall No such bonds of peace and unity then as the spirit of truth which ties the conscience to obedience and patience The wisdome from above is first pure then peaceable James 3. 17. So that they best may march together but first truth then peace Truth must have the precedence rather truth than peace Truth wee owe to God and our soules immediately peace onely to our bodies and states c. If one must be despensed withall it is peace not truth better truth without publique peace than peace without saving truth Truth alone will bring us peace the best peace Christs peace which the world can neither give nor take away Pax est omni bello tristior quae veritatis justitiae ruinâ constat That peace is farre to deare which costs us the losse of truth I meane great saving necessary and fundamentall truth 2 Where these truths are asserted study to adde peace to them that truth may root spread fasten and fructifie the more Nor is the publique peace to bee violated for every truth such as neither tends to faith nor much to good manners Dissidiis magnis controversis non sunt redimendae minores istae veritates Wee must not by contention of tongues or pens or hands so farre vindicate truths of lesser size and consequence as to break the peace of our affections words and conversations Let truth and peace then goe together in our loves and lives Truth as the root peace as the fruit Truth as the light Peace as heat truth as the foundation peace as the structure And certainely in the Church those tenets and propositions are likeliest to be true which tend to the peace of the Church as it was the true mother which pleaded against the dividing of the child And that peace in the civill state is likeliest to be lasting and sound which is built on the Truth of Reason and Religion both and not upon the fancies opinions dictates traditions examples and tyranny of custome and men Neither peace of Church nor State is to be purchased with the sale of Truth saving and necessary