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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33474	Vox corvi, or, The voice of a raven that thrice spoke these words distinctly, Look into Colossians the 3d and 15th : the text it self look'd into and opened in a sermon preached at Wigmore in the county of Hereford : to which is added serious addresses to the people of this kingdome, shewing the use we ought to make of this voice from heaven / by Alex. Clogie.	Clogie, Alexander, 1614-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing C4724; ESTC R26607	70,214	178

encrease of God And the Apostle to the Romans So we being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another Rom. 12. v. 5. and 1 Cor. 12. 12 13. There is one body and one spirit and Ephes 4. 4. and v. 12. For the edifying of the body of Christ So Ephes 5. 23. He is the head of the body the Church and Col. 1. 18. and Chap. 2. v. 17. Which are a shadow of things to come but the body is Christ And be ye thankful 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The former Translation reads it and be ye the amiable This word is not found any where that I know or can meet with in this sense divers of the same Stock I may say and mark still signifie thankful and so do others beside Chrysostom the Syriack Interpreter referring it to Christ although seeing it is put in rank with Duties pertaining to men I rather take it of thankfulness to men each to other of that after Such then is the sense of the words wherein we are exhorted to two Vertues Peace and Thankfulness There be two parts of the words that concern Peace first the Duty Let the peace of God rule in your hearts Secondly two Reasons 1. God's calling You are called to peace The second Reason is That you are in one body Peace which is the Duty that we are exhorted unto is a Moral or to speak in Christian language a Theological Vertue of that worth and excellency which we are bidden to suffer to marshal us and all our actions to give Peace the preheminence let it rule in God's Name in us and over us It is the Peace of God The Evangelical Observation is this Observ That when there shall be a Conflict in our Thoughts between Anger Swelling Disdain Ambition Revenge and on the other side Meekness Mercy Humility Love yea sometimes Justice then let Peace bear the sway and order all things It is not then tho' still to be desired yet to be hoped for so much to be without Conflict with our Passions as regarded that at least they be well Marshalled a wrestling there will be only beware this Contention be not without a Moderator of the Strife which must be Peace Trem. renders it thus Pax sit moderatrix in cordibus vestris Let Peace be the Moderatrix in your hearts It is not to be expected then but there will be Contentions Discords and thereupon troublesom Affections which will strive for the Mastery and dominion as was amongst the Apostles themselves for by the way they had disputed Who should be greatest saith St. Mark 9. v. 34. but yet let Peace rule let her always in your hearts win and have the upper-hand as Erasmus renders this Phrase in his Paraphrase upon this Epistle This was the case between Abraham and his Nephew Lot when there was a strife between the Herdmen of Abraham's Cattel and the Herdmen of Lot's Cattel and the Canaanite and the Perizite dwelt then in the Land Gen. 13. 7 8. And Abraham said unto Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee and between my herdmen and thy herdmen for we are brethren Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we are men-brethren and so Peace and Love decided the Controversie and prevented all future occasions of difference between the two Families The Reasons of Dissentions are either inward or outward 1. Inward are many first Defects of Understanding when men are not rightly informed and acquainted with all matters Abimelec pleads thus and justifies himself to Abraham who had reproved him because of a Well of Water which Abimelec's Servants had violently taken away Gen. 21. 25. And Abimelec said I wot not who hath done this thing neither didst thou tell me neither yet heard I of it but to day A right understanding prevented a sad falling out and danger of War between the Israelites and the men of Gilead about the Altar of memorial that was reared up at the Banks of Jordan till the true meaning thereof was known Josh 22 12. The whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shilo to go up to war against them 2. Weakness of Judgment is a second Reason of Dissention for though in general we may discern what is good or evil as that no man is to be wronged and that we must do unto others as we would be done unto yet when we come to the particulars we resolve far otherwise Deteriora sequor 3. Stifness in Opinions once received and entertained is an occasion of continued Differences even amongst men of the same Profession as between the Pharisees and Saduces there arose a Dissention and the Multitude was divided Acts 23. v. 7. 4. Pride is a great Makebate only by Pride cometh contention saith Solomon Prov. 13. 10. Men have forgotten that exhortation of the Apostle Peter Yea all of you be subject to one another and be clothed with humility for God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble 1 Pet. 5. 5. 5. Envy is a cause of deadly Dissentions insomuch that Solomon asks the Question Prov. 27. 4. Who is able to stand before envy before this Son of Anak The ground of the first Quarrel between Cain and Abel that ended in innocent blood Gen. 4. 5. The Lord had respect to Abel and his Offering but to Cain and his Offering he had no respect and Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell Moses tells us That Jacob heard Laban's Sons say Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's hath he gotten all this glory and Jacob heheld the countenance of Laban and behold it was not towards him as before This occasioned Jacob's stealing away from Laban secretly with all that he had as ye read Gen. 31. 1 2. 27. 31. See also Gen. 27. 41. where it is recorded That Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him and Esau said in his heart the days of mourning for my father are at hand then will I slay my brother Jacob. Again Genes 37. 4. 8. When Joseph'd brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him and his brethren said unto him Shalt thou indeed reign over us and shalt thou indeed have dominion over us and they hated him yet more for his dreams and for his words Stephen the Proto-martyr quotes this Scripture in his last Speech before the Jewish Sanhedrim and the Patriarchs moved with envy sold Joseph into Egypt but God was with him Acts 7. v. 9. Enviest thou for my sake saith Moses to Joshua that would have him forbid Eldad and Medad to prophecy in the camp would God all the people of the Land were Prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them Numb 11. v. 29. What a dreadful Judgment did Envy bring upon Corah and his Confederates when they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said

those committed to their Trust at the great Day 2. If the Peace of God rule in the Heart of the Children into which they are called in one Parental and Domestick Body then they will be always ready and careful to honour their Father and Mother according to the tenor of the Fifth Commandment which the Ap●st●e calls the first Commandment with promise Eph. 6. 2 which some expound of the second Table Others take it that that hath a special promise It is absolutely the first hath a Promise for that concerning God's shewing Mercy to Th●usands of them that fear him and keep his Commandments is not a promise but a part of the Desc●iption of God's Nature and Inclination as Exod. 34. 6 7. They will shew love to their Parents and love to one another by which all Men may know that they are Christ's Disciples as our Lord speaks Joh. 13. 35. The Apostle tells us we had Fathers of our Flesh which corrected us and we gave them Reverence Heb. 12. 9. that is their due with Obedience and Thankfulness in nourishing and maintaining them as Joseph did his Father and all his Family in Egypt seventeen Years Gen. 47. 12. David was careful of his aged Parents when he knew not how to secure himself from the Violence of Saul 1 Sam. 22. 3. Children must beg their Parents Blessing at all times as Jacob and Esau Joseph's and Jacob's Children Gen. 27. 4. especially at their departing this Life Children must not be Stubborn and Rebellious or Incorrigible in taking ill Courses there is a very severe punishment appointed for this horrible Sin And they shall say unto the Elders of this City this our Son is Stubborn and Rebellious he will not obey our Voice he is a Glutton and a Drunkard and all the Men of the City shall stone him with stones that he dye so shalt thou put evil away from among you and all Israel shall hear and fear Deut. 21. 20 21. They must nor do as the Prodigal Son that wasted his Substance with riotous Living Luk. 15. 13. and brought himself to want all things They must not hate one another in their Heart Lev. 19. 17. as wicked Cain did his Righteous Brother Abel that never did him wrong Gen. 27. 41. as Esau did his Brother Jacob that resolved to kill him after his Father's Death Gen. 37. 4. or as the Patriarchs did Joseph who moved with Envy sold him into Egypt saith St. Stephen Act. 7. 9. They improve their Union in the Flesh to their Communion in Grace and Glory as Children of their Heavenly Father as the Seed that the Lord hath bless'd 5. Masters and Servants IF the Peace of God rule in the Hearts of Master and Servant into which they are called in Body Domestick and despotical to live under one Roof and eat of the same Family Provision then both Master and Mistress Man-Servant and Maid-Servant will carry themselves towards one another in this Relation as the Servants of Jesus Christ For saith the Apostle He that is called in the Lord being a Servant is the Lord's free-man likewise also he that is called being free is the Lord's Servant 1 Cor. 7. 22. Then Masters will give unto their Servants that which is just and equal as the Apostle exhorts Col. 4. 1. paying their wages when it is due The keeping the Wages of the Hireling is a crying Sin Jam. 5. 4. The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all Night until the Morning saith Moses Lev. 19. 13. At his day thou shalt give him his hire neither shall the Sun go down upon it for he is poor and setteth his Heart upon it lifteth his Soul unto it lest he cry against thee unto the Lord and it be Sin unto thee Deut. 24. 15. Not turning them out of Doors when they are sick without any further regard of them which is a hiding our Eyes from our own Flesh Isa 58. 7. The Centurion did not so that came to our Lord Jesus Christ the great Physitian for cure for his sick Servant that lay at home Matth. 8. 6. Masters must not be extream in the Government and Usage of their Servants knowing that ye also have a Masten in Heaven Col. 4. 1. saith the Apostle The Egyptians were ill Masters that made the Israelites serve with Rigor and Blows when they were Pharoah's Bond-men Exod. 1. 13 14. in so much that when Moses and Aaron were sent unto them to comfort and support them and to preach the Gospel the glad Tydings of their Deliverance from their sad Condition but they hearkned not unto Moses for Anguish of Spirit for straitness or shortness of Breath and for cruel Bondage Exod. 6. 9. Even Mother Sarah is recorded to have dealt hardly with her Handmaid Hagar when she had laid in her Husband's Bosom so as to make her flee from her Face Gen. 16. 6. that was ready to flee in her Face with Threats and Frowardness Correction given in Anger hath usually more of Rigour than of Right Nabal's Servants complain to their Mistress Abigail of their Master's Untowardness and Crossness towards them and of his Incivility towards David's Servants that had been very civil and peaceful towards him That their Master was such a Son of Belial that a Man cannot speak to him 1 Sam. 25. 17. And ye Masters saith St. Paul do the same thing unto them that ye would have done to you if ye were in their stead forbearing Threatnings knowing that your Master also is in Heaven neither is there respect of persons with him Masters are required to deal bountifully with suchas serve them well and long And when thou sendest him out free from thee thou shalt not let him go away empty of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him Deut. 15. 13 14. 2. If the Peace of God rule in the Hearts of Servants into which they are called into one Family or private Corporation Then they will be subject to their ow Masters without fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward as St. Peter exhorts 1 Pet. 2. 18. And St. Paul also Servants obey in all things your Masters according to the Flesh not with eye-service as Men-pleasers but in singleness of Heart fearing God And whatsoever ye do do it heartily as to the Lord and not unto Men knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the Inheritance for ye serve the Lord Jesus Christ Col. 3. 22 23 24. To the same effect doth the Apostle direct his Speech to Servants in the sixth Chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians almost the same verbatim v. 6 7 8. They must not obey unlawful Commands from whatsoever Master Saul gave a bloody Command to his Life-Gua●l that stood about him Turn and slay the Priests of the Lord but the Servants of the King would not put forth their Hand to fall upon the Priests of the Lord 1 Sam. 22. 17. But as our