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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42051	Omilia eiréniké, or, A thanksgiving sermon for peace abroad with motives to unity at home, especially in matters of religion : preach'd at Hambleden in the county of Bucks on Thursday the second day of December, 1697 / by Francis Gregory ...	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1697 (1697)	Wing G1897; ESTC R39481	9,967	28

anguish And as for Servants they are their Masters Trustees and if they bear a grudge to their Masters Person 't is ten to one but they will falsify their Trust too But where Husbands and Wives are of the same mind and draw the same yoke and in the same way where Parents love their Children and Children love their Parents where Masters are kind to their Servants and Servants chearfully obey their Masters where the inferior Relation doth readily do what the Superior doth prudently require In short when the Hand doth willingly execute what the Head doth wisely contrive and dictate Where the case stands thus such Families are in the ready way and take the right course to thrive But on the other hand if Strifes and Contentions arise and grow in a Family if as our Lord speaks The father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother where Relations who are so near in Blood are at such distance in point of Affection such Families can never expect God's Blessing to make them Prosper nor indeed can they heartily unite any joint Petitions to beg it Such Families are so far from having any hopes to flourish that our Lord hath plainly told us Every house every family divided against it self shall not stand No Strife and Contention are as Gregory Nazianzene well observes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginnings of Dissolution That which best Cements and Supports a Family is mutual Concord and Unity and if so how desirable a Blessing is Peace even in the private Families of Men II. Peace is a Blessing very desirable in the Catholick Church which is the great and only Family which God hath in this lower World St. Paul tells his Christian Converts thus Ye are fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God not as Servants only but as Children too All the sincere Converts of the World all true Believers have the same God for their Father the same Christ for their Brother the same Church for their Mother and if so themselves must needs be Brethren And is not this Fraternity such a near Relation as should incline us to Peace and Unity See that Expression of Abraham to Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee betwixt me and thee for we are Brethren We all pretend to be Travellers towards the heavenly Canaan and if we be such indeed that Counsel which Joseph gave his Brethren doth much concern us See that ye fall not out by the way O remember that God who is the Father of us all is stiled The God of Peace our Blessed Saviour who is our Elder Brother too is stiled The Prince of Peace and he hath given us a fair Intimation that every good Man is and ought to be a Son of peace one inclinable and well disposed to mutual Concord Amity and Agreement to this end did our Lord give his Apostles this Charge Have peace one with another Nay saith St. Paul if it be possible as much as lies in you live peaceably with all men but especially with all Men of the same Religion See how very earnest St. Paul was for this I the prisoner of the Lord beseech you What to do to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace And truly where this Unity of the Spirit is not kept where this Bond of Peace in matters of Religion is once dissolved 't is a clear Evidence that Men are not such Christians as they should be St. Paul plainly told the Men of Corinth so I hear that there are divisions amongst you division about their Teachers One saith I am of Paul another saith I am of Apollo and a third saith I am of Cephas and what doth St. Paul infer from this variety of their Opinions That he tells them Whereas there is amongst you envyings strife and divisions are ye not carnal and walk as men Not as becomes good Christians but like sinful Men. Now much like to this Case of the Church of Corinth is the present Case of the Church of England too for as they were divided about their Preachers so are we as among them one was for Paul another for Apollo and a third for Cephas so among us one is for an Episcopal Preacher another for a Presbyterian a third for an Independent One Man is for those set Forms of Prayer which our very Excellent Liturgy prescribes and I cannot blame him another Man is for extempore Effusions and sure I am that even these also are set and stinted Forms though not to the Speaker himself yet to every other Man that hears them Again one Man is for performing the Duties of our Publick Worship in a Church a place Built and Dedicated to the Service of God alone but another Man is for Worshipping the Great Majesty of Heaven in an homely Barn a place built and designed only for the Civil and Common Uses of men Once more One Man is for our Publick Assemblies which are Established by our Laws another Man is for Conventicles in Private Houses and since these Conventicles have been so very numerous and since so many sorts of Dissenters have resorted to them 't is from the Good Providence of God that these Conventicles have not yet emptied our Churches that these back Ditches have not yet drawn the main Stream quite dry But can the Wisest of men amongst us foresee what the end of our Divisions may prove Sure I am its present Effects are but sad ones for by these Divisions we do prejudice the best Religion in the World we do thereby very much discourage Jews Papists Turks Men of all other Religions from embracing ours For may they not justly say the true way of Worshipping God being but one since there is amongst us Protestants such a diversity of Opinions about it who can assure us which may be the only right one Besides this Difference in Judgment doth naturally produce Difference in Practice too and difference in Practice doth commonly create difference in Affection and when these Differences meet together they are wont to produce Schisms in the Church Seditions in the State and Confusions in both Nay when Differences in matters of Religion ferment and grow high when divided Parties are zealous every one for his own Opinion how oft do they break out into Civil Wars some of them defending their Errors by the Sword which they could never have defended by any other Arguments Now then if these be the usual Consequences of Divisions in matters of Religion how desirable a Blessing must Unity and Peace be in the Church of God III. Peace is a Blessing very desirable in the Civil Societies of Men in Towns and Cities in the Commonwealths and Kingdoms of the World at Home amongst our selves and Abroad with all other Nations too I need not tell you that in Halcyon days when things are

this Colour or that the Scriptures do not tell us Again in what particular Place and at what particular Hour we must meet to Worship God whether the Preacher must sit or stand whether the Lord's Supper should be Administred in the Church or in the Chancel the Scriptures do no where teach us no these and the like indifferent Circumstances must to prevent Disorders be determined by the Piety and Prudence of our Church Governours and when once they in order to Decency Uniformity and the more solemn Administration of our Divine Worship have upon mature Advice and Deliberation prescribed us such Rules as are no way contrary to the Word of God by the same Word do we all stand obliged in Conscience to obey them and were this generally done our Disputes and Quarrel about our Ceremonies which are but few and innocent would be at an end But so long as we think our selves either more Knowing or more Conscientious than our Rulers while we refuse to submit to their Determinations about things indifferent and thereupon break and crumble out selves into many Factions and Parties we do by these Divisions exceedingly Gratify our Adversaries of Rome And whilst we pretend to abhor their Religion we do indeed give very great Advantages to it for when once Men separate from our Publick Assemblies and meet in Private Conventicles 't is well known that Priests and Jesuits under a Disguise creep in amongst them and by degrees instill their Poisonous Doctrines into the Minds of Unwary and Credulous Men. Let me therefore Exhort and Prevail with you to do what St. Paul or rather God by St. Paul requires Obey them that have the Rule over you and Submit your selves And again Be of one mind live in Peace And yet again Endeavour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace 't is that which our Religion and Duty requires Yea and so doth our very Interest too Thirdly Since it hath been die good Pleasure of God to Bless us at present with a Civil Peace both at Home and Abroad let us so behave our selves both to our God and our King to our God as the Author and to our King as the Instrument of our Peace that this Peace may be still continued to us and our Posterity without any Interruption The Interests of a King as the Head and of the Subjects as the Body Politick are so interwoven and twisted together that a Breach between them may prove Fatal to both but still when Kings and Subjects break with Heaven that 's Infinitely worse For as there is no Friend so there is no Enemy so considerable as God And what is it that makes this God an Enemy to any Nation but those Epidemical Sins that overspread it And verily if we of this Kingdom shall still persist in our Vicious Courses our present Peace cannot long secure us for if we break our repeated Covenants with God he can easily incline our Enemies to break their Covenants with us That which Moses told the Wicked Jews doth as much concern sinful Christians too The Lord shall bring a Nation against thee whose Tongue thou shalt not understand a Nation of fierce Countenance which shall not regard the person of the old nor shew favour to the young and he shall eat the fruit of thy Cattle and the fruit of thy Land until thou be destroyed An Invading and Conquering Enemy doth God here threaten to raise against a Wicked Nation But on the other hand if a Nation prove Religious and Holy what the Event is like to be we may learn from Solomon who saith When a Man's ways please the Lord he maketh even his Enemies to be at peace with him What is here said of a Particular Person is as true of a whole Nation to please our God by a Pious and Vertuous Conversation is the only sure way to obtain and continue Peace with Men. And that a firm Peace may be for ever Established in all Christian Churches throughout the whole World let us all heartily join in that Charitable Petition which our Excellent Liturgy hath put into our Mouths namely this Grant O Lord that all they who do confess thy Holy Name may agree in the Truth of thy holy Word and live in Unity and Godly Love Let us also pray more particularly for our own Jerusalem our own Church and Kingdom as our Royal Psalmist did for his in the Words of my Text Peace be within thy Walls and Prosperity or Plenteousness within thy Palaces FINIS Books Printed for Richard Sare at Grays-Inn-Gate in Holborn DR Gregory's Divine Antidote against Socinianism 8 o The Fables of Esop with Morals and Reflections Folio Erasmus's Colloquies Octavo Quivedo's Visions 8 o. The three last by Sir Roger L'Estrange The Genuine Epistles of St. Barnabas St Ignatius St. Clement St. Polycarp the Shepherd of Hermas c. A Practical Discourse against Swearing 8 o. The Authority of Christian Princes over Ecclesiastical Synods in Answer to a Letter to a Convocation-Man 8 o. Sermons on several Occasions 4 o. These by Dr. Wake Epictetus's Morals with Simplicius's Comment 8 o. A Sermon Preach'd upon the Death of the Queen A Sermon at the Commencement at Cambridge A Sermon on the Death of Dr. Towerson These four by Dr. George Stanhope The Doctrine of a God and Providence Vindicated and Asserted 8 o. Discourses on several Divine Subjects 8 o. These two by Thomas Gregory Lecturer of Fulham Essays upon several Moral Subjects In Two Parts By Jeremiah Coslier M. A. 8 o. Compleat Sets consisting of Eight Volumes of Letters writ by a Turkish Spy who lived 45 Years at Paris undiscovered giving an Account of the Principal Affairs of Europe 12 o. Moral Maxims and Reflections Written in French by the Duke of Rochfoncault now Englished 12 o. Of the Art both of Writing and Judging of History with Reflections upon Ancient as well as Modern Historians By Father Le Moyne 12 o. An Essy upon Reason by Sir George Mackenzie 12 o. Death made Comfortable or the way to Dye well By John Kettlewel 12 o. The Parsons Councellor or the Law of Tythes By Sir Simon Degg 8 o. The Unlawfulness of Bonds of Resignation 8 o. Price 6. d. An Answer to all the Excuses and Pretences which Men ordinarily make for their not coming to the Holy Sacrament 8 o. Price 3 d. By a Divine of the Church of England Remarks on a Book Entituled Prince Arthur an Heroick Poem By Mr. Dennis 8 o. An Appendix to Dr. Pope's Life of Bishop Ward 8 o. Price 6 d. A Gentleman's Religion in three Parts the first contains the Principles of natural Religion The Second and Third the Doctrins of Christianity both as to matters of Faith and Practise 12 o. Fortune in her Wit 's or the Hour of all Men. By Don Franciso de Quivedo Author of the Visions of Hell Translated by Capt. John Stevens 8 o. Humane Prudence or the Art by which a Man may raise Himself and Fortune to Grandeur The 7 th Edition 12 o. Luke 12.53 Matth. 12.25 Or 34. Eph. 2.19 Gen. 13.8 Gen. 45.24 Luke 10.6 Mark 9 5● Rom. 12.18 1 Cor. 11.18 1 Cor. 3.4 1 Cor. 1.12 1 Cor. 3.3 Psal 46.9 Isa 2.4 Isa 45.7 Acts 4.32 Acts 2.44 46. Judg. 5.15 Heb. 13.17 2 Cor. 13.11 Eph. 4.4 Deut. 28.49 Prov. 16.7