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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85833	An exhortation to peace: with an intimation of the prime enemies thereof, lately delivered in a sermon, and newly published with some small addition, by Lionell Gatford, B.D. rector of Dinnington in Suffolke, now a prisoner in Ely-house in Holborne.	Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665.	1643 (1643)	Wing G333; Thomason E94_1; ESTC R2004	27,384	44

practise Jerem. 36. who when he was shut up in prison thought not that an excuse sufficient for not making known to the people those things which concerned them but sent forth a roll written from his owne mouth to be read in the eares of all Judah I could not satisfie my conscience quickened with so good an example and incouraged with Gods gracious deliverance of him that set it till I had sent abroad something whereby I might in some part informe the people of this Land of their duty and discharge mine owne and haveing nothing in a readinesse now that my former intended treatise is strangled in the birth so seasonable and suitable for these tumultuous and distracted times as this exhortation to peace I have adventured that amongst you You will finde it indeed flatly opposite nay fully contradictorie to multitudes of exhortations wherwith not onely our parlours are pestered 2 Tim. 3. v. 1 2 3 4 5 6. but our very Pulpits are profaned in these perilous times It must therfore be your care with those noble Bereans Act. 17. to search the Scripturs daily whether those things affirmed by those Salij or Priests of Mars in their skipping vociserations or these avouched by me a Minister of peace in this slow-paced Sermon be according to what is there recorded or not For my part I challenge nothing to my selfe but weaknesse and unworthinesse but by the grace of God I am what I am and to the praise and glory of his free grace be it ascribed I have ever been orthodoxall in judgement and conformable in practise to the established doctrine and discipline of the Church of England without swarving or digressing therefrom either to serve the times though never so turbulent or to observe mens humors though never so potent during freely to reprove corruption and innovation in Religion and religious worship where I met with any such when the Stentors or Baaling cryers of these times durst not mutter against them and alwayes labouring though compassed about with many imperfections to adorne Religion and the profession therof by faithfulnesse in my calling and by unstainednesse of life and conversation But for those whose doctrine and practises this Sermon oppugnes They bragge much of their light bring them therfore into the light To the Law and to the Testimony and if they speake not according to this word it is because ther 's no light in them Isa 8.20 and he that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother he is in darknesse even untill now 1 Joh 2.9 They boast likewise that they and onely they have the spirit But beloved beleeve not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world 1 John 4.1 If they have the spirit you shall know it by the fruit thereof Now the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith meeknesse temperance Galat. 5.22 23. They desire also to make you beleeve what it seemes by Jobs answer Cap. 12.2 his miserable comforters would have assumed to themselves that all wisdome is with them yea and shall die with them if they miscarry nay their very folly and madnesse is stiled by themselves and their Favourites spirituall wisdome But the word of God will try that too For the wisdome that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle easie to be entreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie James 3.17 For their holinesse and righteousnesse none mayquestion it without the censure of being a reprobate for such a presumption and yet the Scripture is a touchstone that will prove the truth of that also even by their love to peace For the fruit of Righteousnesse saith Saint Iames is sowne in peace of them that make peace Cap. 3. v. 18. And where envying and strife is much more where war and bloodshedding is there is confusion and every evill work v. 16. And from whence come wars and fightings among you saith the same Apostle come they not hence even of your lusts that warre in your members Cap. 4. v. 1. But if you would see the holy warre of the present times lively set forth read on v. 2 3. Ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtaine ye fight and warre yet ye have not because ye aske not ye aske and receive not because ye ask amisse that ye may consume it upon your lusts In a word those new teachers or teachers of newes as the most of them deserve to be stiled would fain dreame you into an opinion that they are for peace as much or more then any onely they would have peace with truth But who can beleeve them when they make lies their resuge and daily wrest and pervert the Word of truth to encourage to warre without peace truth cannot be established and so long as the people are given over to beleeve their lies 't is impossible that peace should be obtained Nay had they been men of truth neither peace nor truth had been now unsetled much lesse shattered into so many peices as that it will be difficult to repaire either and no lesse then a miracle to restore both to their former splendor and glory Had your Preachers dealt truly with you I should not have needed to have sent this sermon of peace at this time amongst you for if some of them when they were consulted by you as that I presume they were concerning the lawfulnesse of the present war had not with those lying Prophets 1 King 22. encouraged to battell with a Goe and prosper for the Lord shall deliver not the City into the Kings hands but the King into the hands of the City certainly our Jerusalem had still enjoyed her blessed peace and all that love her peace had still flowrished in their envied prosperity I am no accuser of my brethren but if from the prophets of Jerusalem as the Lord once complained by that holy prophet Jerem. 23.15 prophanesse or hypocrisie for Gods Name is never more prophaned then by hypocriticall prophets be gone forth into all the land and both Jerusalem and the whole Land be ready to be ruined thereby I conceive I have authority sufficient even from the Prophet Jeremy to complain of such Prophets and that before the people that so the people may yet at last beware of them onely this I must tell the people those filthy dreamers as Saint Jude cals them those false prophets as the deceived people themselves will ere long acknowledge them who defile the flesh despise dominion and speake evill of dignities Jude Epist v. 8. teaching others to doe the like doe but dreame such dreames as the people have caused to be dreamed Jerem. 29.8 and although the prophet be a soole and the spirituall man mad yet the people must remember that 't is for the multitudes of their iniquity and their great hatred Hosea 9.7 Either