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A07454	A sermon preached before the Generall Assembly at Glascoe in the kingdome of Scotland, the tenth day of Iune, 1610. By George Meriton Doctor of Diuinitie, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines	Meriton, George, d. 1624.	1611 (1611)	STC 17840; ESTC S112673	19,738	40

head of Aaron that ranne downe vpon his beard and from his beard to the Psalme 133. skirts of his clothing Pacem te poscimus omnes They are frantique men that fall out with peace The old Gentiles loued her so well as that they made her a Goddesse And Tiberius dedicated a Temple vnto her in Mount Palatine as we may reade in Suetonius When Salomons Temple was a building there was not a stroke heard nor the noyse of a hammer That King of peace when he builded a Temple for the God of peace would haue it euen in the doing to acknowledge both the end and Author Iosephus giues a reason why the Iewes so louingly did offer Sacrifice one for another because saith he they held themselues to be fellowes hauing one Temple to one God common to all being the common God of all When Christ came into the world his Angels did sing a song of peace whiles he continued in the world he preached peace to men when he went out of the world he left his peace as a legacy vnto his Church Acts 2. In the prime age whereof the Disciples agreement and peace was such as if there had beene but one Soule amongst them In the time of Tertullian as himselfe reporteth this was the Romans obseruation which they made of the Christians Vide vt se inuicem diligunt Christiani See how these Christians doe loue one another they knew themselues likewise to be fellow members hauing Christ Iesus one head to one body common to all being the common head of all Our Religion commeth à Religando whereby saith Nazianzene those which belong vnto God are made one with him Those which be sonnes of the Spirit become hot in loue Those doe beare one anothers burthens which belong vnto him that bare all our burthens Let vs come lower vnto our selues Since the preaching of the Gospell in this Iland wherein wee liue wee haue beene kissed with the kisses of peace Our gouernment hath beene peace Esay 60. 18. Saluation our walles and praise our gates And as Tertullus doth to Foelix in the story of the Acts so Acts 24. must we wholly acknowledge in all places with all thanks to God that we haue obtayned and doe now enioy many excellent blessings by the means of peace Were it not then beyond all measure monstrous that any should be so tossed with the tempest of desires as not to loue peace so sweet in experience and imbraced of all The Apostle commandeth vs to keepe the vnity of the Spirit in the Ephes 4. 3. bond of peace and as farre as it is possible to haue Rom. 12. 18. p●ace with all men The Psalmist willeth vs to seeke peace and to ensue it We haue one God one Gospell one King one Continent The diuision of tongues was the confusion of Babel The diuision of the heart is the death of the Soule The diuision of minds is the ouerthrow of Kingdomes The diuision of Gods people is the destruction of his Church If we bite one another we shall be consumed one of another And yet behold peace may take vp Gal. 5. 15. that complaint that God once made against his people Esay 1. 2. Israel I haue nourished and brought vp children but they haue rebelled against me Mischieuous ma● contents deuoted to selfe loue fetching the ioy of their Conscience from a deceiptfull testimony suppose themselues to be cold in Religion vnlesse they be hot in faction And so doe they lay about them 2. Sam. 24. 18. as if the Altar stood still vpon Araunahs threshing Psal 140. 2. floore Their study is to stirre vp strife all the day Tsal 7. 14. long Destruction and vnhappnies is in their waies and the way of peace they haue not knowen They trauaile with mischiefe and in their beds appointed for rest they plot how to be turbulent and to Psal 7. 15. bring forth their vngodlinesse And so far are they from desiring of peace betweene Church and Kirke from maintaining of peace between man and man as they want many times that loue or inclination which one Beast doth beare vnto another If one Sheepe be faint the rest will stand betweene it and the Sunne till it bee comforted if one Hogge bee hunted the whole heard will muster together to reuenge it It is reported of Bees that Aegrotante vna lamentantur omnes If one be sicke all are sorry Yea some Beasts are more kinde to mankinde then some men to themselues In humane storie we reade of gratefull Lyons of kinde Eagles of trusty Dogges Qui mori pro Dominis commori cum Dominis parati as Ambrose writeth In holy Bible 1. King 17. we finde that Elias was sedde by Rauens and that Dan 6. 22. Daniel was not hurt amongst hungry Lyons O detestandam humane malitiae crudelitatem saith Cyprian Aues pascunt ferae parcunt homines saeuiunt O hatefull cruelty the Birds feede the beasts fauour but such is the rage of a mis-informed conscience as that one man will shew himselfe a wolfe vnto another These whersoeuer they be I charge not this place are the troublers of Israel are thornes in our eyes and pricks in our sides dismembring the body and renting the coate of Christ that same Tunica which was vnica that coate without Seame Out of a false Testimony perhaps they may promise peace vnto themselues yet as Hierome saith Tranquillit as ista tempest as est their calme of conscience will one day proue a storme The God of Esay 57. 21. peace giue vnto them a true testimony of their conscience that they and we and all may ioyntly sing a sweet song of peace together and make vp a full consort and harmonie of heauenly ioy Thirdly obedience to our King is a duty most necessary Nature commendeth it Scripture commandeth it Present danger pleadeth for it Rex vnus est apibus Dux vnus est Gregibus saies Cyprian Among the Bees there is one Master amongst the flocks of Sheepe one Belweather The Cranes haue their captaine quem ordine literato sequantur whom the rest doe follow as Hierome obserueth Passe we from nature of lesser force and come we to Scripture of greater power Let euery Scule Rom. 13. 1. be subiect to the authority of higher powers saith S. Paul A peremptory proposition inforced by manifold reasons First all powers are of God the higher from the highest Secondly they bring with them the good of order for the powers are ordeined Thirdly it is sinne to disobey them for hee that resisteth authority resisteth Gods ordinance Verses Fourthly Iudgements temporall and eternall doe accompany this sinne They that resist shall receiue to themselues damnation Fistly Gouernment is the meanes of our weale he is the Minister of God for thy wealth Wherefore we must needs obey and obey not only for feare of vengeance but also because of conscience Our obedience is acceptable to God who enioyneth it