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A fast sermon preached on innocents day by Thomas Fuller, B.D. Minister of the Savoy.
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Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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cruelty to the Protestants at Hedlebergh of their cruelty to Protestants of Magdenberge of their cruelty to the Protestants at Rochel for if these wars continue wee are likely not onely to equall but to out-doe these cruelties one to another so that discharging this accusation of bloudinesse against them it will rebound and recoile in our own faces Put all these together that warre makes a Land more wicked makes a Land more wofull is bad in it selfe is worse in its traine destroyes Christian people and disgraces Christian profession and then will all have just cause to say as it is in my Text Blessed are the Peace-makers 13. If any object that peace also hath her mischiefes which attend thereupon for it brings plenty and plenty brings pride and pride brings plagues upon it peace makes men pampered and with Jessurun to kick against God War indeed brings cleannesse of teeth whilest peace brings fulnesse of bread which is as bad and worse making men presumptuously to rebell against God The answer is easie woes may come from peace but they must come from warre miseries arise from the very use of warre which come but from the abuse of peace being essentiall to warre but accidentall to peace inherent alwaies in the one adherent too often to the other in a word in war calamities proceed from the thing it selfe in peace from men abusing it 14. Object But peace without truth is rather poyson then a cordiall O let us not be like the thirsty traveller who so long longs for water that at last he drinkes mud and water together not only without distinction or distaste but even with delight O let us not with Sampson so dote on the Dalilah of peace as to get her love to betray truth wherein our strength lyes Some perchance would propound peace unto us but on such servile conditions as Naash the Ammonite offered a truce to the men of Jabesh-Gilead 1 Sam. 11. 2. On this condition will I make a covenant with you that I may thrust out all your right eyes and lay it for a reproacb upon all Israel And so if we will give in truth to boot and put out our owne eyes into the bargaine forfeit the true faith and knowledge of God with the purity of his service then perchance a peace may be proffered us but as Peter said to Simon Magus Act. 8. 20. Thy mony perish with thee so let such a hellish peace perish with those that seek to promote it 15. In the answering of this objection give me leave as Peter said Act. 2. 29. Men and brethren let me freely speake unto you of the Patriarch David so let me boldly and fully speak in answer to the objection If leave be denied mee I know whence my commission is derived I am an Embassadour for the God of Heaven if I speake what is false I must answer for it if truth it will answer for me And what I have to say I will divide into foure Propositions 16. Prop. 1. Cursed be hee that seekes to divide Peace from Truth I must confesse I was never bred upon Mount Ebal neither did ever my tongue take delight in cursing The rather because we may observe Deut. 27. 12. that the most eminent Tribes from wch the Princely Priestly men descended Levi Iudah Ephraim Benjamin took their station in Mount Gerasin to shew that Magistrates Ministers are principally to inure their mouths to blessing And yet for those that feek to sever peace from truth I cannot refrain my self but must say Cursed be they in the city and cursed be they in the field cursed be they in their basket and in their store cursed be they in the fruit of their body and in the fruit of their land in the increase of their kine and in the stock of their sheep cursed shall they be when they come in and cursed shall they be when they go out 17. Pro. 2. Before this warre began wee had in England truth in all essentiall to salvation Wee had all necessary and important truths truly compiled in our 39. Articles We had the word of God truly preacht I could wish it had been more frequently and generally the Sacraments duly administred which two put together doth constitute a true Church S. Paul 1 Cor. 15. 18. being to prove the resurrection of the dead presseth the Corinthians with this among other Arguments Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished Putting them a most uncharitable absurdity that in case the dead arise not againe they must be bound to confess that all the Saints formerly deceased were perished And surely such as deny that England before this warre began had all essentiall truth to salvation must of necessity split themselves on the same uncharitable rocke and passe a sentence of condemnation on all those which dyed in our Church before these two yeares last past 18 3. Pro. Many errors in Doctrine and innovation in discipline did creepe fast into our Church Arminian positions Tenents reason to Gods grace invaded the truth of the Word in many places One Ceremony begat another there being no bounds in will-worship wherewith one may sooner be wearied then satisfied The inventors of new Ceremonies endeavouring to supply in number what their conceits wanted in solidity and God knowes before this time where they had been if they had not been stopt 19 4. Pro. The best and onely way to purge these errors out is in a faire and peaceable way for the sword cannot discerne betwixt error and falshood it may have two edges but hath never an eye Let there on Gods blessing be a Synode of truely grave pious and learned Divines and let them both fairely dispute and fully decide what 's true what 's false what Ceremonies are to be retained what to be rejected and let civill authortie stampe their command upon it to be generally received under what penaltie their descretion shall think fitting But as long as Warre lasts no hope of any such agreement this must be a worke for Peace to performe So then under the notion of Peace hitherto we have and hereafter doe intend such a Peace as when it comes we hope will restore truth unto us in all the accidentall and ornamentall parts thereof and adde it to that truth in essentialls to salvation which we enjoyed before this Warre began and in this sence I will boldly pronounce blessed be the Peace-makers 20 Come we now to consider what be the hindrances of Peace these hindrances are either generall or particular The generall hindrance is this The many nationall sinnes of our kingdome being not repented of I say of our kingdome not of one Army alone Thinke not that the Kings Army is like Sodome not ten righteous men in it no not if righteous Lot himselfe be put into the number and the other Army like Syon consisting all of Saints No there be drunkards on both sides and swearers on both sides and whoremungers