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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57328	Elias the Second his coming to restore all things, or, God's way of reforming by restoring ; and, Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of two contending brethren in two sermons : the former preacht in Warwick at the Generall Assize there held August 19, 1661 : the other in Coventry at the annuall solemnity of the maior's feast on All-Saints Day following : both publisht at the importunity of divers of the auditors being eminent persons of quality in that country / by John Riland ...	Riland, John, 1619?-1673.; Riland, John, 1619?-1673. Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of two contending brethren.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1519; ESTC R11927	45,131	119

beginning or chief of our strength yet like him also they are unstable as water I am the more earnest herein because I perceive in diverse no great mind after changes in themselves but only the People love to have it so and they love to humor those People But it Nullam vestem bis induit Sueton de Ne●one was costly following his Fashions who was never seen twice in the same Garment and certain it is we have found this novellizing of Ours none of the cheapest for Imitation As when we behold a full Moon we think it a glorious Body yet 't would make but an uncertain Standard to go by Such are the minds of this kind of People and if we should chip and chop all our Measures according to that Standard we might do like that Statuary who thought the piece never fine enough till at last by overmuch he wing and polishing he had scrapt away all into an heap of Dust in stead of a Statue 2. And as this kind of wanton changing so any 2. Destroying kind of destroying is contrary to this restoring This hath so little of Iacob that it hath both Esau's hands and Esaus voice too and so is plain down right Edom who said Down with it down with it even to the ground Good and Bad Corn and Tares all must be bound up in the same Bundles As if Absalom's way to burn Ioabs field had been the best course to cleanse and weed it 2 Sam 14. 30. and if the House be grown a little dusty presently to bring the Besome of Destruction to reform it Certainly that Besome hath no relation to Christs fan wherewith he hath promisd to purg Luc. 3. 17. his floor If either the Church-clock or State●arum should be at a stand sure a little oyle and a gentle rubbing would do better then to come with axes and hammers to set it going Indeed time hath been when those Clergy-men were hung by as useless Harps whose mad Musick could not enrage our late Alexanders and Dion make them presently draw their swords runie either City or Country I desire to blesse God I never knew how to beat a March upon these sacred Boards nor had I ever the least skill to sound a Charge from the Pulpit but have often wondered to see how any could rejoyce in or at the work of Destruction especially because it looks so like the Devil who took one of his chiefest titles from thence and is called the Destroyer and God Almighty Keeep us all from the paths of Ps 17. 4. that Destroyer When two strings of Musick saith Cùm ista sonitum reddit illa quae in eodem cantu temperata est tremit Greg. M. 1. c. 5. that Father are equally stretch'd to both the same note touch but the one the other though at some distance will shiver and tremble by Sympathy I would to God that all Christians were sensible of these sympathizing kinds of Shiverings though we are at a distance in some other respects yet we all agree in that common key of Christian and why should not those many great things wherein we do accord hold us faster together then that those few little things wherein we differ should be able to shatter us asunder O let us often read and ponder upon that of the Prophet Destroy it not there is a Blessing in it Isa 65. 8. I would be understood of those vulnera non immedicabilia such as are not past our help those that be so we leave to higher and better Iudgments and I could wish we might hear no more of those dismall Dirges at least that they might be all taken out of some of David's Al-taschiths provided that a Psalm of Mercy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Compassion to one prove not a Song of Lamentation to many Then for God's sake Destroy not for as t was said before there is at least there may be a blessing in it And so 't were well we were all of God's mind there or here in the Text rather to seek the Restoring then the Ruine of a Sinner And as this Destroying is contrary to this Restoring here and so contrary to that great Restorer in respect of private persons much more in respect of Iudges and Counsellors and such like publick persons Our King is worth ten 2. Sam. 18. 3. thousands of us one of his Iudges or his Counsellors are worth many hundreds of us and his Government it self worth us all for indeed we were all lesse worth then nothing without it Yet time was we would adventure and be trying how it was to be without it and therefore God sent Locusts amongst us such as those in the Revelations they had faces men and Rev. 9. 7 8 c. Hair like Women yet withall they had Tailes like Scorpions and Teeth like Lyons nor would the seeming sweetnesse of their looks cure the stinging of the one or the bitting of the other I say the Lord sent Locusts amongst us Now as Agur observes The Locusts have no King yet they go Prov. 30. 27. forth all of them by Bands and so did we who a long time had none of the former but God knowes enough and too much of the latter These I say that have no King God sent amongst us that would have none that so our Punishment might be our Fescue to point out our Sin But their waies were not God's waies and 't is well for us they were not for they like true Locusts are all for devouring and destroying when God is all for restoring He and all his I am perswaded are for peace though the other make them ready for battel When I consider the perpetual Desolation even all that the Enemy hath done evill in the Sanctuary I cannot but admire Ps 74. 3. in the name of God out of what bottomlesse pit hath arisen that Spirit which is all for ruining and nothing at all for restoring What is his name Prov. 30. 4. or what is his Sons name who can tell faith the Scripture We know God of whom that is spoken his Name is The only Potentate The Mighty King The Indge Eternal and his Sons name is Wonderfull Couns●llor Prince of Peace Everlasting Father all names of Order and Government But for this Spirit whereof we now are speaking what is his and his sons name I 'll tell you his Name is Legion and it may be feared a Roman one and his Sons name is Confusion and Destruction Oye foolish Christians who hath bewitched you with these principles of Destroying What though Corah and his company abus'd their Censers which reall abuses are of an higher nature then any petty personal ones whatever yet even those Censers may serve for broad plates for the Num. 16. 38. Altar What is Belshashar's heathen lips defile Dan. 5. the Bowles of the Temple yet if they be well wash'd again what were those Iewes the worse who

the Egyptian indeed 't is Death to some to hear talk of Peace As Millers and Sailers with other such that live by the winds a perpetuall Calme would undo them Give such as those Sea-room enough and then they are safe whereas if they come neer firme ground and are once cast upon Shoar they split and are broken to pieces The Disciples of Christ we read were once Mat. 14. 27. afraid of their own Master as if they had seen a Spirit So many when they see Peace a coming toward them are afraid and think 't is an Apparition But what Christ said to them his Majesty hath been pleas'd to say to us Be not afraid behold it is I. In some 't is probable the fear of Restitution may lie like a Lyon in the Way And indeed should many amongst us repent but at half that rate as the little Publican did and restore but twofold yea but the same again for his fourfold I doubt many that are great ones now would soon be as little in Estate as Zacheus was in Stature and they would quickly repent of such a Repentance Therefore that the way of Peace may be straw'd with Flowers as well as pav'd with Marble so that all may be perswaded to come and walk in it Behold here are no severe exhausting Satisfactions no grievous and ruining Restituions no harsh and cruell Compositions As for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here that must be let alone for ever Be of good cheer if thy sins are forgiven thee thy wrongs are Only after all the Injuries on one side and the Acts of Kindnesse on the other let 's be willing to be friends with our King and Country and those whom we have so much wrong'd if they have wronged us in forgiving us O forgive them that wrong St Austin observes that whereas the other Creatures were made two and two God created Man single there assigning the reason thereof De uno multitudo propagatur ut in mult is unitas Civ D. l. 22. c. 26. servaretur Thus that we might be all taught of God to love one another God would at first give us all one Spring head as it were that so we might the more undividedly stream along in the same Channell God is the God of Love and Peace be perfwaded to it for God's sake And Christ though content to be crucifyed on Mount Calvary yet while he was living as may be observed he was most delighted to be in Mount Olives He looseth his life in the place of Skuls an Embleme of War where the truth is he is still crucify'd but he leads his Life most commonly in a place of Olives an Embleme of Peace There he prayes there he preaches there he walks contemplates and watches do's all but dye that was reserv'd for Mount Calvary yea thence he ascends up into Heaven and as Peace Act. 1. 12. was one of the last legacies his Lips bequeath'd us when he dyed so Mount Olives the dwelling place of Peace was the last piece of Earth his blessed Foot toucht when he ascended Remember Christ is the great lover of Peace Do it for Christ's sake But if neither for God's sake nor Christ's yet some perhaps may be mooved for their Countreys sake Imagine you sawthis native Kingdome of ours like another Iob not now upon but newly crept off the Dunghill and thus bespeaking you as there he doth his Visitants Have pity upon me O Job 19. 21 my Friends have pity for the hand of the Lord hath touched me Indeed the hand of the Lord hath not only toucht but a longtime lain heavy upon this Land of ours and if after all we have yet no pitty we are far more miserable comforters then ever Jobs were For if we observe they seem to have some kind of sympathizings with his Sorrow He rents his Mantle and they rent theirs he shaves his head they throw Dust upon theirs If he sits upon the Ground so do they and their Sorrows maintain as long and as sad a silence as his do Yea as in most things they did with him Job 2. so in one passage they out-did him For whereas we find not as yet that Iob had shed one Tear for all his sufferings 't is said of them They lift up ib. 12. v. their voice and wept O be not more remorselsse then were Iob's friends Do it for your Countrey 's sake But if the present age prevaile nothing yet have some regard and pitty upon Posterity Let not the little ones as soon as born be taken and dasht against the stones as it were by being taught such hard and unrelenting Lessons and exposed unto such harsh and ruthlesse principles as the men of this generation have proceeded upon I have heard of an ingenious Limmer who mostlively represented a dying piece in this manner A goodly Matron mortally wounded at the Storming of a City as she lay bleeding and expiring of her Wound behold her helplesse hungry Infant comes crawling towards her Breasts while the dying Mother looks wistly and carefully upon it Ne sanguis metuens pro lacte bibatur as if fearing lest the hungry Babe should suck down Blood in stead of Milk How far this sad Resemblance might not long since be suitable to our Church and Kingdome I leave to your Consideration Only take heed I speak it to all unpeaceable implacable Spirits that the Children yet unborn in lieu of the innocent wholsome milk of true Christian Principles be not betray'd to Blood by your Examples I do not dispair but that by these poor yet well-meant Motives some Salamander may be enticed out of his beloved fire and that we Christian Brethren will regard these Peace-offers of Moses although the Iewish ones did not But what need we a further wast of Words to a Christian Audience when one Quirites hath pacified an Heathen Tumult Men and Brethren that 's only our Quirites what have we so soon forgotten the miseries of War that we must already be labour'd and perswaded to Peace Need there be a Law enacted That every one shall eat when he is hungry and drink when he is thirsty Need any of us be intreated to sleep securely live plentifully eat the fat and drink the sweet of a good Land sit quietly under our own Vine by day and rest undisturbedly in our own Beds at night What is it indeed so much sweetnesse and pleasure for me to eat my own morsell with a trembling hand and drink of my own Cup as Belshazar did of anothers with a perpetuall shaking because of the sad and frightfull Alarms of War Well if we must be argued into Peace and men will not be happy unlesse they see good reason for it at present I shall seek no farther than the Text Sirs ye are Brethren Were are they Hebrews so are we Christians Were they in the midst of enemies are not we Had they a Peace making Moses blessed be God so have we and if they are all Brethren we much more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Co-uterini such as have lain in the same womb of this our Church drawn at the same Breasts of Consolation both the Testaments have been nurst up with the same sincere milk of Gods word and a good Chatechisme And as we have been brought up on the same Knees and hung upon the same Breasts of one common Mother so we hope all to be received into the Bosome of one common Father What saith St Paul There 's one Body one Spirit Eph. 4. 4 one Hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all Now if after all these ones we must still be two I shall even leave you as Moses did them Only remember this the time may come that what Moses here speaks to us all we may one day sadly repeat to each other saying Sirs we were Brethren why would we do such wrong one to another THE END