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spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	scripture_n	19,615	5	6.1818	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44512	The blessed advantages of peace and peace-makers In a sermon preach'd at the Savoy in London upon the fifth of St. Matthew; Ver. IX. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God. By Anthony Horneck, D.D. late preacher at the Savoy.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing H2820; ESTC R215358	19,312	50

hath a Soul base and low a poor pitifull Spirit guilty enough to suffer in Hell but alienated from that life which must give him a title to Heaven 2. He that doth not make Peace with God or with his own Conscience and cares not for it robs himself of the greatest comfort and surely that man can never be happy To be at Peace with God is to be at Peace with our Judge with him who hath the same power over us that the Potter hath over his Clay and is able to destroy both Soul and Body into Hell with him whose voice breaks the Cedars divides the Flames of Fire shakes the Wilderness and makes the Mountains tremble and who hath a Prison to tame men in a Prison from whence there is no coming out till they have paid the uttermost Farthing To be at Peace with this Almighty and Sovereign Being must needs be a mighty satisfaction to the Soul that knows what God is and looks beyond this world To enjoy his Friendship to be sure of his Favour to be secured of his good will this establishes the Soul and gives her courage in the time of the greatest Danger He that is indifferent whether he be at Peace with God or not not to mention that he is a Sot and a Fool and understands not his true interest he deprives himself of that which ought to be the greatest stay and staff of his life and therefore whatever his outward Conveniencies and Accommodations may be he is unhappy 3. He that doth not or will not live peaceably with his Neighbours I need not tell you that he is unhappy for he himself finds by sad experience that he is so The Disorders and Tumults he finds within the uneasiness of his condition the danger he is in from without and the vexation and discontent he runs into are sufficient Items that he is as far from being happy as he is from being wise His lusts war within his members as St. James speaks Jam. IV. 1. His Soul is like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest Isa. LVII 20. He is no kin to God for he is the God of Peace Rom. XVI 20. No kin to Angels for they rejoyce in Peace on Earth Luk. II. 14. No kin to good men for they seek Peace and ensue it 1 Pet. III. 11. If he be related to any thing it is to the Prince of Darkness who delights in wrath and envy Rev. XII 17. 4. Such men are no Children of God and therefore cannot be blessed that 's the argument of the Text Blessed are the Peace-makers for they shall be called the Children of God therefore those that have an aversion from this Peace-making are not blessed because no Children of God surely no Children of God when so much of that Spirit reigns in them which rules in the Children of Disobedience He particularly that seeks not to be at Peace or to live peaceably with his Neighbour most certainly doth not love his Brother and he that loves him not is by the Holy Ghost in Scripture put into the number of strange Children for so we read 1 Joh. III. 10. Herein the Children of God are manifest and the Children of the Devil he that works not righteousness is not of God neither he that loves not his Brother Not to love our Brother and to hate him in Scripture are equivalent different expressions for the same sin and if any man say I am in the light and hate his Brother he is in darkness and walks in darkness and knows not whither he goes because the darkness hath blinded his Eyes 1 Joh. II. 11. So that true Blessedness lies altogether in the opposite temper viz. the Peace-makers and of these it is that it 's said They shall be called the Children of God and how and upon what account they shall be called the Children of God is the III. And last particular I am to speak to And here I must premise that in Scripture Language to be called so is very often as much as to be so And thou Child shalt be called the Prophet of the most High i. e. thou shalt be a Prophet Luk. I. 76. and after the same manner That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God i. e. shall be the Son of God so Matth. I. 23. They shall call his name Emanuel i. e. he shall be so God with us God and Man And after this stile you are to understand the Phrase of the Text They shall be called the Children of God i. e. they are and shall be so Children of God! Why What great blessedness is there in this title beyond what other men enjoy Are not Princes and great Men who are commonly none of the best called the Children of God Psal. LXXXII 6. and is not God the Father of all mankind It is very true but still there is a very great difference between Children and Children All rational creatures both Men and Angels are God's Children as they are the works of his hands and with this respect even Devils come into that number because they owe their Being to an Omnipotent God Princes and great Men particularly are the Children of God upon the account of Power and Grandure and Authority God communicates to them but for all these respects they may be everlastingly miserable To be a Child of God by Regeneration to be born again to be born of God to be begotten again through a lively hope by the Word and Spirit this is it that makes the title truly comfortable and such Children are the Peace-makers commended here To be a Child of God in this sense is more and a greater honour than to be related to all the greatest Princes in the World For 1. Such Children of God have higher marks of favour set upon them They enjoy the Blessings of God's left hand in common with the rest but besides these they have Blessings of the right hand heap'd upon them Besides the Preservation Protection Provision for their bodies and common Deliverances from dangers they participate of with the greater number their Souls are visited by very magnificent Guests For if any man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him saith our Saviour Joh. XIV 23. God governs them by his Spirit and feeds them like a Shepherd gathers the lambs into his arms carries them in his bosom and gently leads those that are with young Isa. XL. 11. They are made partakers of the divine nature love what God loves hate what he hates desire what he desires and aim at the same end God himself aims at to wit the Glory of God blessed for evermore 2. To such Children of God belong the Promises of the everlasting Covenant and there is no condemnation in them They are deliver'd from the wrath to come and Christ intercedes for them in Heaven For them the balm of Gilead