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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59749	Ta proz eirenen, the things that belong unto peace, or, A seasonable discourse for these factious times delivered lately in a sermon before the judges at St. Maries in Nottingham at the assizes there, and now printed at the command of some persons of honour ; to which is annexed A short and modest apology for the author and book of the several weighty considerations, humbly recommended to the serious perusal of all, but more especially to the Roman Catholicks of England, by Thomas Sheppey ...	Sheppey, Thomas.	1682 (1682)	Wing S3221; ESTC R33738	21,949	42

God's and Man's Nature together which were before at such vast distance and by Grace he re-unites the Will of God and the Wills of Men which were so contrary And now you see what reason there is we should study to be Quiet since Peace and Quietness are the very end for which the Son of God came into the World did and suffer'd so much and at his last Departure bequeath'd it to his Church for his richest Legacy And therefore he that doth not make this his study doth as much as in him lies to frustrate the whole Course that God hath taken with us and to render the Bloud of the Son of God of no effect And yet for all this wicked and Turbulent Men will not be quiet with any like Ishmael their hand is against every man and every mans hand against them They are at War with themselves by the disorder of their Passions at War with their Neighbour by quarrels and discord at War with God by disobedience They are uneasy and unquiet on all hands From God they are troubled with the dreadful threats of his Justice from Man they meet with a thousand disturbances and contradictions and from themselves with infinite disquietudes But good Men Gods Children are at perfect Peace with all with themselves by due curbing in their Passions with their Neighbours by perfect Love and Amity and with God by an Universal Obedience to his Commandments They are at quiet with themselves by submitting the Flesh to the Spirit Lust to Reason the Inferiour part to the Superiour For as in a Consort of Musicians the Harmony proceeds from this that every Voice keeps its own part so in Man when the flesh is kept under and the Soul permitted to reign from this due Order and observance as from a Consort of Voices proceeds the sweet harmony of interiour Quietness And as a Musick-Master is continually attentive to keep every Voice in its due rank to elevate those that are too low and depress those that are too shrill thus Reason in Man must keep a strict eye over the Body and keep it from mounting too high and disturbing the Harmony And this was our Apostle's great secret when he found the flesh rebell against the Spirit Castigo corpus meum in servitutem redigo Thus by captivating our flesh and subduing our Passions Reason will command the Soul will reign and maintain the Microcosm in perfect Peace and Unity But man being in the Philosophers phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Creature shaped out for Converse and Society he can no ways keep peace with himself if he be not at quiet with his Neighbour As one member of the body ruines its self if it attempt to loosen that which fastens it to the rest of the Members And de facto there are no persons so uneasy and unquiet as envious Persons Riotous Debauch'd Seditious Men who make it their study to sow Dissentions 'T is true they are a trouble and vexation to their Neighbour but a far greater torment to their own Souls and while they scatter abroad the seeds of War and Tumult they reap the first fruits of it in themselves And thus both Nature and Reason teach us that if we desire to be happy and injoy Repose and Tranquillity in our selves we must study to be quiet with our Neighbour But especially we are obliged to this Duty since the Son of God who so dearly purchased this Peace for us hath so earnestly commended it to our practice by his own Doctrine which breaths nothing but Peace and by his own example who truly acted as the Prince of Peace and in his commands by the mouth of his Apostle that we should keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace and from the Nature of the Church it self which is but one Body whereof the Holy Ghost is the Soul and Jesus Christ the Head and the faithful are the Members Love is the life of this Body and Peace and Quietness that band that ties one Member to another and all to the Head Who ever yet saw in one and the same Body one Member war against another And yet both in the mystical Body of the Church and the Political Body of the State what more ordinary than for Christians who are all Members of this Body to bite and devour one another It belongs to none but Madmen and Desperadoes to tear their own flesh and rend out their own Bowels And yet every day presents us with Christians snarling at each other nay man becomes a Wolf to his Neighbour one member devours another and what would be accounted a prodigy in Nature is become a familiar spectacle in Religion But let such Persons flatter themselves with what specious pretences they please we are assured they cannot be Members of Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace but limbs of Satan the Father of Dissention no Children of God whom they hypocritically profess but of the Devil whom they so exactly imitate They belong not to the Heavenly Jerusalem the Temple of Peace but to Hell the Mansion of Tumult and Theatre of Confusion God in the old Law commanded us to love our Neighbour as our selves and Jesus Christ renewed it in the Gospel A new Commandment I give unto you that you Love one another And he hath extended this Love even to our Enemies themselves But I say unto you love your Enemies Desiring to establish a firm Peace among Men as he had done between God and Man But alas May we not complain with Linacer Aut hoc non est Evangelium aut nos non sumus Christiani Either this is not Gospel or we are not Christians We are at this time so far from studying to be Quiet from minding the Things that belong to Peace that we seem to want that Love that is between Beast and Beast If one Sheep faint the rest will stand betwixt it and the Sun to shelter it If a Swine be injured the whole Herd will muster together to revenge the Jujury Natural Historians are full of examples of grateful Lyons kind Eagles and trusty Dogs ready to dy both for and with their Masters In holy Writ we read of Elijah fed by Ravens and of Daniel not hurt among Lyons Sed O detestandam Humanae Malitiae Crudelitatem Aves pascunt ferae parcunt Homines saeviunt as the blessed Martyr St. Cyprian complain'd in his time Or as holy David in his Ill minded Men imagining mischief in their heart and stirring up strife all the day long Their throat is an open Sepulchre the poyson of Asps is under their Lips Their mouth is full of Cursing and bitterness c. their teeth are Spears and Arrows and their tongue a sharp Sword Psalm 20. More sharp saies S. Bernard de Tripl Custod than the Spear which pierc'd our Saviour's side for it doth not onely wound Christs mystical Body but even rent it in pieces making as Many factions in the Kingdom as there are Offices and

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle fitly stiles them those Intermedlers with others Affairs those Peepers and Pryers into other Mens houses I will only deliver my sentiments in a very few Words concerning those Political Pragmatico's who with their unwasht hands so slovenly to speak no worse intrude into the Arcana of the Government both of Church and State Those State-Eavedroppers that with the Athenians are constantly hearkening after News and with S. Peter never thinking of themselves are still demanding And what shall this Man do And I wish it rested there No to hear and see will not serve the Turn unless they have an Oar likewise in the Publick Vessel Which if by their Merit they cannot procure they presently fall to Despising of Dominions and speaking evil of Dignities Nay as the same Apostle complains they must needs speak evil of those things which they know not Certainly there can be no greater Demonstration of the Malignant Spirit raigning and rageing in Men than thus to Blaspheme the Gods upon Earth To the serious thoughts of these Puny Politicos these Demicaster Statists I desire to recommend that notable Passage 2. Pet. 2.10 11. Where the Apostle describes their Forefathers thus They despise Government Presumptuous are they self-willed they are not afraid to speak evil of Dignities Whereas Angels which are greater in power and might bring not railing Accusations against them before the Lord. The summ of which Discourse tends to this that the Angels though by their Office they make report of the Miscarriages of Princes yet their accusation is without railing out of a Reverence to their High function and Gods Immediate Image in them And S. Jude v. 9. doth marvellously amplify this Observation assuring us that S. Michael who is the Prince in the Celestial Hierarchy of Angels when he contended with the Devil the Captain of all the Bands of Infernal Spirits durst not bring against him a Railing Accusation Because though the Devil be despoiled of all Grace yet he remains in the Principality of his Naturals and in respect to the Eminency of those the Angels forbear to reproach him Durst not the Highest Angel in Heaven revile the most wicked fiend in Hell and shall impudent Men venture to calumniate and defame the Earthly Gods themselves God Almighties immediate Vicegerents I mean the Magistrates both Ecclesiastical and Civil How far these Boutefeus by their Tongue Squibs and Pamphlet Crackers have contributed to those feuds we are now embroyl'd in I will not take upon me to determine But of this I am sure that Political Writers have made it an Observation that it is a dangerous forerunner of subversion sinisterly and irreverently to Apprehend and Interpret the actions of their Governors and that there seldome or never come any more Pleasing than those they so despise God Almighty punishing upon them the affronts offered to his Viceroy's and Substitutes Remember that Vzzah for but putting forth his hand though to save a Tottering Ark which was as it were the Palladium of the Jewish Nation yet it cost him no less than his life by an immediate stroke from Gods own hand And if we will not be content to have the Olive or the Figg or the Vine to reign a Bramble may come and devour the Cedars of Libanus I conclude this I hope not unjust Invective against State Busy bodies with the Excellent remarks of the Son of Syrach Ecclus 21.22 c. A foolish Mans foot is soon in his Neighbours house but a Man of Experience is ashamed of him A Fool will peep into the house but he that is well nurtured will stand without It is the rudeness of a Man to hearken at the door but a wise Man will be grieved at the disgrace The lips of Talkers will be telling such things as pertain not to them but the words of such as have understanding are weighed in the Ballance And now to you My Lords in a Word and but in a Word I shall humbly address what remains And to do your Own Business Your Business is of so Vast an extent that I dare not venture upon so Comprehensive an Argument Nor indeed had I time at my own choice should I be guilty of so much Indiscretion as before so many Sages and Oracles of the Law to discourse at large of the Office of a Judge This would be to act before Roscius and to read a Lecture of Military Discipline before Hannibal You are in those high Offices which render you like the Heavenly Bodies it is the observation of the Noble and Learned Verulam You have much Veneration but little Rest I shall not therefore contribute any thing to your Trouble but only leave this single Item with you and you to Gods Blessing I dare not call it an Instruction but rather with the Apostle A stirring you up by way of Remembrance It is your Business to look that others live quietly and do their own Business and none but their Own To this purpose you are intrusted with the Fasces the rods for smaller Offences and the Axe for Capital Crimes Let the rod like Jonathans be dipt in Hony and the Ax brighten'd with the oyl of Mercy Now to the King Immortal the only wise God who as he hath been our Saviour so will one day come to be our Judge together with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour Glory and Obedience now and ever Amen A Short and Modest APOLOGY FOR THE AUTHOR AND BOOK OF THE Several Weighty Considerations Humbly recommended to the Serious Perusal of All but more especially to the Roman Catholicks of England 2 Cor. 6.8 By Honour and Dishonour by Evil Report and Good Report as Deceivers and yet True LONDON Printed in the Year 1682. HAving given the World a full and succinct account of my self in an Epistle to the Right Reverend and Learned Dean of S. Pauls Dr. Edward Stillingfleet by way of Preface to the Several weighty Considerations c. I judge it wholly superfluous to repeat any thing of that Nature and therefore referr the Reader to that Preface and the Book it self 1. My present Task is only to wipe off that Dirt which very unworthily and undeservedly hath been cast upon Me and my Book by such whose malice and envy leaves no stone unmoved to render their Neighbours as Odious as by the Villainous Pranks of many of their Party they have now made themselves And if some passages be brought on the stage which may any ways prejudice particular Persons and which otherwise might have lain for ever dormant They may thank themselves in rouzing up one who desired to bury himself in Obscurity Oblitusque suorum Obliviscendus illis and to have shakd hands as a fair Enemy since he could not close with them as a bosome Friend Nay even now I am forced forth I shall make it appear I do all cum moderamine inculpatae Tutelae rather to Ward my self than to Wound my Antaganist There are but