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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

continually going forward and growing upward from Grace to Grace from Vertue to Vertue till we be of full growth in Christ Jesus A Christian must neither be like Hezekiah's Sun that went backward nor like Joshuah's Sun that stood still but like Davids Sun Psalm 19.5 Which is as a Bridegroom coming out of his Chamber and rejoyces as a strong Man to run his Race There is always in Christianity a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 something remaining And though some of our Neighbours brag much of their State of Perfection of their Ne plus ultrà in their spiritual Journey of Immediate Vnions with the Divine Essence in the pure fund of the Spirit Yet we poor Protestants God help us must according to the command of our meek and humble Jesus when we have done all we can look upon our selves but as unprofitable Servants and follow the example of our Blessed Apostle Phil. 3.13 Not as though I had already attained or were already Perfect but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth to those things which are before I press toward the Mark for the Price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus 2. The second Obligation here seriously recommended to our consideration and practice is the study of Peace and Quietness A most Important and Seasonable Duty and which cannot be too much press'd at this time Now as Plato said of Vertue so I may say of Peace Could she but assume a visible shape we should all presently become inamour'd of her Wherefore I know no more effectual Medium to urge the practice of the Duty in my Text than by presenting to you the Blessed fruits and effects which will undoubtedly accrue to us by it I mean by maintaining that Peace and Quiet we at present enjoy and which nothing but our own boisterous and unruly passions can rob us of Let us then I say but take a full view of what the Apostle here so pathetically presses upon us and recommends as an object worthy of our utmost Care and Study It is nothing else but what is our Happiness more than our Duty Peace that Soul of the Universe that Chain of the World and Cement of Nature the Bond of Governments the Desire of Men the Joy of Angels the delight of God himself Peace the design of Nature the Perfection of Grace and Consummation of Glory Peace the Reconciliation of Sinners the Consolation of the Saints the Crown of the Blessed Peace at which the Scriptures aime which Faith intends Hope aspires to Love mounts towards it and it is compleat Beatitude to attain it To procure this Peace the Son of God came into the World he toyl'd and laboured to treat about it He died to confirm it and arose again to proclaim it and sent his Holy Spirit to bestow it on us His Labours acquired it his Bloud bought it his Death merited it and his Love bequeathed it At his Birth the Angels chanted it forth Glory be to God on High and on Earth Peace And at his Resurrection He himself published it Peace be with you Thus was Peace the Beginning of his carrieer and the end of his Course Peace was the design of his Combate and Peace was the Crown of his Victory Indeed if we look a little more particularly into the matter we shall find that this Quietness which we are here commanded to study is the perfection both of the Greater and of the Lesser World I mean Man himself The greater World is composed of two parts the Celestial and Elementary World To what tends that constant and regular motion of the Heavenly Bodies that most exact Dance of the Rouling Spheres but to make up the Harmony of a most ravishing Concord And that mutual Marriage and Conjunction of the Elements what doth it breathe forth but the sweets of a most Amiable Peace in the Sublunary World The motions of the Heavens being so different and the Qualities of the Elements so contrary who would not presently conclude an inevitable War must follow both in the Heavens by their diverse Revolutions and in the Elements by their manifold Antipathies And yet both the Heavens compose their discord and the Elements do as I may say lay aside their Quarrel to produce and preserve that Peace which is the life of Nature and the Conservation of the World From whence proceeds the Beauty of the Universe but from Order and what maintains this Order but that Peace which is amongst its members Every one keeps its Rank and Station without intrenching upon the others Offices and so they keep an inviolable Peace which preserves their Being and buoyes up their Dignity Whereas if Debate and Dissension should once intrude among the parts of this great Body immediately upon Debate would follow Disorder and upon Disorder a Dissolution of the whole Fabrick and that which Quietness makes appear so Goodly and Beautiful that it derives its very names of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mundus from its comely features would in a moment by Discord be turned into a Chaos of Confusion Let us descend a little to Particulars and see how Peace is the Perfection of the Parts as well as of the Whole All that is in this Great Family of the World may be distributed into two Classes or Orders of things Some whereof have nothing but a simple Being as Stones Minerals and other inanimate Bodies Others besides a Being have Life either Vegetative as Plants or sensitive as Animals I speak not as yet of Man who besides his sensitive hath a Reasonable and Intellectual Life And First as to Things that have nothing but Being that very Being is their Perfection Now what is it that preserves the being of Stones and Minerals but the Peace and agreement of the four first Qualities as they call them Dry and Moist Cold and Hot Their Being hath no other foundation but the marriage and Union of these contraries that compose them As soon as one Contrary begins to get the upper hand over his Fellows and the Peace is broken presently a dreadful Civil War commenceth they mutually destroy one another and this is infallibly attended with the ruine of the whole Compositum And hence it comes to pass that all Bodies under Heaven even the most solid Stones and Metals are corruptible because they are all composed of contrary Ingredients and Peace cannot be very permanent in the midst of so much contrariety Thus Concord preserves them and War ruins them Quietness is their Perfection and Debate the Original of their Destruction The very same thing happens in Plants and Animals and therefore from them I proceed to Man himself and shall endeavour to shew how this study of Quietness is the Perfection of Man in what ever state we consider him either in the state of Nature as a Man or in the state of Grace as a Christian and God's Friend or in the state of Glory as one of the Blessed Inhabitants of the