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A42582 Eirēnikon, or, A treatise of peace between the two visible divided parties ... by Irenæus Philadelphus Philanthropus ... Philanthropus, Irenaus Philadelphus.; Gell, Robert, 1595-1665. 1660 (1660) Wing G469; ESTC R21302 66,598 92

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people being sensible onely of an outward austerity and formal pretension of Godliness without any conviction of inward power and efficacy they will not hazzard a cut finger for the advancement of your Government Yea some wise men conceive that you would not so eagerly oppose the antient Government of the Church with your novelty but that you fear your former bold enterprizes would not be safe without attempting somewhat that 's worse Brevibus Gyaris aut carcere dignum Or that by indulgence and favour you may come off among those of your party with the reputation of resolute and conscientious men Or that some principal sticklers and leaders among you may have their conscience better informed with a Deanary or Bishoprick Or because there are some unquiet and unpeaceable spirits among you who conceive that Atheism profaneness impiety and all irreligion would violently break into the Church unless they stood in the gap to keep it out Alas Good men They are like those little woodden statues which are set under the main beames of an house with very piteous faces as if they bare up the whole building whereas indeed were they taken away the house would stand very well without them But what is their pretence They conceive the Christian faith is in hazzard and would be lost if they stood not up in defence of it And therefore they alledge scripture for warrant of their contention that they may sin by the Book For why They ought as they say to contend for the faith that once was given to the Saints Jude verse 3. That is saith the Gloss of the Quarto Bible against the assaults of Satan and Hereticks Whence some gather that they should strive with others for the Apostolical faith But in reason men ought first to contend for the faith once given to the Saints that it might be in themselves viz. faith in Christ the wisdom of God and power of God 1 Cor. 1 That faith that is the obedience of faith as Rom. 1. and 16. That victorious faith which overcomes the world 1 John 5.4 Whereas therefore some then as at this day had brought in a lazy kinde of imagination which they called faith that Christ had done and suffered all things for them and so became ungodly and turned the grace of God into wantonness and so sinned that grace might abound And so they denyed the Lord Jesus Christ the onely Lord when they obeyed other Lords as Esay 26. And pretended impotency weakness and inability to do the will of our onely Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ These Jude exhorted to contend for the true faith once delivered to the Saints For had we the true faith which was once given to the Saints it would no doubt empower us against all ungodliness and all wantonness yea all the lust of the flesh lust of the eyes and the pride of life which are all that is in the world 1 John 2.16 And the true faith is the victory that overcomes that world 1. John 5.4 Which faith were it in us it would overcome that pride of life whence comes this contention who should seem to be the greatest But they will have no Peace they say without Truth This is an old juggle whereby the credulous and ignorant multitude were seduced into the late War and so perswaded to believe a lie Not but that peace is and ought to be joyned with truth as Zech. 8 16.19 and elsewhere But is not peace also found coupled with righteousness Esay 32.17 and with holiness Heb 12.14 and love Psalm 119.165 and purity James 3.17 And what Truth is that which is joyned with Peace Is it not notoriously known that they are wont to call their Principles and Opinions which they have chosen to hold by the glorious name of Truth according to which they account themselves and would be accounted by others Orthodox But doth not our Lord Jesus call himself The Truth John 14.6 Now mark what kinde of Truth the Lord Jesus is Ephesians 4.20 Ye have not so learnt Christ if at least ye have heard him and have been taught in him as the Truth is in Jesus that ye put off according to the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of your minde and that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness of Truth Whence follows truth in speech wherefore putting away the lie speak ye every one truth to his neighbor c. This truth they had learned to whom St. John wrote 1 John 2.21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth but because ye know it and that no l●e is of the truth This is the Truth unto which the true Peace is ●oyned and without which there is no Peace Wherefore beloved Brethren let us beware lest under what pretence soever we break the peace of the Church or the peace of the Nation either of which ought to be more dear unto us than our own lives Let us take heed O let us advisedly seriously and timely take heed brethren lest contrary to the practise of Christ and the holy Apostles according to the custom of the unbelieving Jews and Heathens and some Zealors of our own we go about to reform the world It was said of the Lord Jesus that he perverted the Nation when he converted it and of the Apostles that they turned the world upside down when by the weapons of their spiritual warfare they cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalted it self against the knowledge of God and exalted the humility and meekness of Jesus Christ They never went about to reform a people by raising Riots Routs and Tumults They were not the Apostles but the unbelieving Jews who moved with envy took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the City in an uproar Acts 17.5 Let us beware beloved Brethren lest we go about to reform the Church as the woman did when she sought her groat according to an old false reading of the vulgar Translation Luke 15.8 evertit domum she overturned the house when she should have onely swept it according to the true reading everrit domum For surely the wise woman the Church seeking the Lords image lost in his Coin Man by the light of the Lords Candle which is his Spirit Prov. 20.27 she sweeps and cleanses the house from all filthiness of flesh and spirit until she finde her Lords image in righteousness and holiness of Truth and so becomes reformed and renewed in the spirit of her minde This this is the true Reformation of the Church not overturning it as Bertius saith we do when we go about to reform it O let us prove him a false prophet who hath these words in his Breviarum totius Orbis terrarum page 7. Habent hoc pr●prium Calvanistae ut statum in quem irrepserunt evertant neque