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A30420	A sermon preached before the Aldermen of the city of London, at St. Lawrence-church, Jan 30. 1680/1 being the day of the martyrdome of K. Charles I. / by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing B5875; ESTC R14664	19,574	37

peaceably with all men Where we are in all things agreed there to love Peace is an easie and cheap piece of vertue Of this may be said what our Saviour said of loving them that love us Do not Heathens and Publicans the same It is a sign of a nature strangely corrupted to begin quarrels and contests when there is no cause given for them To avoid this is such a common piece of good nature that it is rather a wonder how a man can do otherwise but then does it appear that we love peace if we can bring our minds to live peaceably with those that differ from us and have perhaps besides the difference of Opinion really wronged us or at least done their endeavours If with such we live peaceably then it appears that we are indeed the Sons and lovers of Peace It is a false Maxim to think we are then the truest Protestants when we have departed the furthest that is possible from every opinion or practice of the Church of Rome for in this we may run into extreams But we are sure we can never run into any extream by receding as far as we can from that ill temper of mind which naturally follows that Religion or rather is become a part of it How little they love Peace is apparent from the conduct of Religion in their Hands from Pope Victors days downwards He condemned the Eastern Churches for a thing of so little consequence as whether Easter was to be observed on the 14 day of the moneth or on the Sunday following Since that time it were endless to shew you what disquiet they have given to the Christian World They broke with the Greek Churches because they would not become subordinate to them and then pretended other things as that they Consecrated leavened and not unleavened Bread in the Sacrament and that they Taught that the Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father by the Son and not from the Son as well as from the Father and upon these things not only broke Communion with them but hindred the Princes of the Western Churches to give them any assistance to defend them from the impressions that the Turks were making on them and resolved rather to deliver up those ancient Churches and so many Millions of Souls to Mahometans than that there should be any Christians upon Earth that would not become in all things obedient and subject to the Papacy Shall I add to this their sending so many great Princes with vast Armies to be destroyed in the Wars for recovering Palestine which they called the holy War The many Croisado's that they Proclaimed against Hereticks or even Catholick Princes as they called them upon any imperious demands of theirs when the Emperors or Kings did not tamely deliver up their Prerogatives as well as their Necks to be trampled upon by them It were long to reckon up the Princes they have deposed and the Wars set on by them but it were endless to reckon all the dismal effects of them How was Italy and Germany rent in pieces by their means with the factions of the Guelphes and Gibellines And how often did England and France tremble at their thunders Surely these cannot be the Sons of Peace nor the Head of them the Vicar of the Prince of Peace Those that dare differ from them know what the fruits of their Peace is To be hunted after To be damned first and burnt next are all the effects of their lenity And as a great man expressed it pleasantly Though we L. Faulkland are not sure that all whom they damn are damned yet we are very sure that all whom they burn are burnt It is a vain attempt to hope ever to be at Peace with them for that on which their Church founds all their other Doctrines being her Infallibility it is a foolish thing to endeavour to convince them that they have been in any one error who make this the fundamental Article of their Religion that their Church cannot err So that all such designs shew either the simplicity and weakness or the vanity and the self-conceit of the undertakers There is no peace to be had with them but at the expence of Truth if we will renounce our Religion and believe whatever they shall think fit to prescribe we may hope to purchase their favour on other terms we must dispair of it and I hope we will not buy it so dear But since we cannot have peace with them let us seek to have it among our selves God be thanked none of our differences are such as we may despair of reconciling them or at least of bearing with one anothers infirmities and mistakes When we come to die we will have another sense of these things than we now have Then all those heats and animosities which do now inflame us will yield us no comfort but on the contrary Dr. Lewis au Moulin will beget in us severe challenges Of this I my self was lately an eye witness when called to assist one on his death-bed who had allowed himself to write with as much virulency as he could invent but then he with many tears lamented it It is true he did not retract his opinions nor was it thought seasonable at such a time to disturb him with controversie but he sincerely repented of that bitterness of spirit upon the account of our differences and that censuring and detracting humour to which he had given too much way before He wisht his Soul with the good men of the Church of England He vowed that if he recovered he should never return to that Vomit and because he thought he was to die he signed a retractation of all that was personal in his Writings and exhorted all others to manage their differences with a more meek and Christian temper I mention this in so publick a manner because he authorised the printing of that retractation which he signed on his death-bed and I enlarge the more on this hoping that such an example from so learned and zealous a man will have great influence on others to moderate their heat and to allay their passions Oh! for more of that wisdom that is from above which is first pure then peaceable and easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie The circumstances of this day should dispose us all more to this happy temper I cannot say the breach between the late blessed King and his Parliament or the War that followed was begun or carried on meerly upon the account of Religion but certainly the sourness that was on peoples tempers by reason of their differences in Religion set it on much and made it more lasting and end more Tragically Many were transported at first beyond their duties by the extream way of carrying matters before the War by some that were more zealous then prudent and certainly things were driven much further in conclusion than was at first intended by them that took up Arms. 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a fatal series in some distractions one step not only makes way for another but makes it in some sort necessary for their security that have gone too far In the end all were losers and the Nation was like to be ruined Those of the Church not only lost all that they enjoyed their Goods and their Benefices and Dignities but they lost him who was their Head on Earth who was and still must be one of the greatest Glories of this Church Those of the separation were not gainers by it a new party not thought of at first rose up and took the game out of their hands and when they had forced the Parliament and killed the King they entitled the rest to all they had done and pretended they had gone on truly according to the principles upon which they had set out at first And though they were gentler to these of the Division than to those of the Church yet they were to have been devoured at last if a happy revolution had not taken the Nation out of their hands Upon such a sad experiment especially seconded with those dreadful hazards to which we see our selves now exposed it might be expected that men of all sides should grow wiser and more temperate and that many that are for the Church should abate of their stiffness in things not Essential and that they on the other hand that insist on some indifferent matters would consider things better without any heat and animosity And thus if we come to love the Truth and Peace that is to secure the Protestant Religion against those enemies of Truth and Peace at Rome and unite at home all that are capable of it by adjusting matters among our selves and those that cannot come into that Union being at least inoffensive to them that do and so all living in Love and Peace one with another then we may hope to see that accomplished in our case which is in my Text promised to the Iews the third thing I proposed to speak to 3. That all the sad effects of that for which we now mourn shall be then entirely removed that our days of Fasting shall be turned into solemn and chearful Feasts then should our twenty ninth of May swallow up the remembrance of the thirtieth of Ianuary or perhaps as the Prophet foretold such happy deliverances should come to the Jews as should make even that out of Egypt be forgotten so we might hope for such days as should out-shine and darken the very twenty ninth of May. Then might we hope to see Halcyon days or to speak in an English phrase Queen Elizabeth days again If we were delivered from the fears of Popery and an end were put to our contests at home if King and People if City and Country if Conformists and Dissenters all would happily conspire in the duties proposed in my Text of loving Truth and Peace Then should all our drooping Hearts revive again all the mists that now environ us should vanish all our fears and jealousies should fall off and we being of one Heart and Mind should be the Paradise and Joy of the whole Earth and the Glory and Bulwark of the Reformed Religion and this great City should be a City wherein Righteousness should dwell Then should we lie down and rise in Peace Allarms and Distractions should cease Peace should be within your Gates and Prosperity within your Houses or rather Palaces for such many of them are Oh may we ever hope to see such days and such a time If we come to love the Truth and Peace then shall even this Fast of the tenth month according to the Jewish account be to us Joy and Gladness and a chearful Feast The God of Truth and Peace give us Grace to set about it sincerely To him be all Honour and Glory both now and evermore FINIS Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswell Guillim's Display of Herauldry with large Additions Folio Dr. Burnet's History of the Reformation of the Church of England The first Part. Fol. His second Part compleating the said History is now in the Press His Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England Oct. His Relation of the Massacre of the Protestants in France 4to His Sermon before the L. Mayor upon the Fast for the Fire 4to His Account of Eve Cohan a Person of Quality of the Jewish Religion lately converted to Christianity 4to Some Passages of the Lite and Death of the Right Honorable Iohn late Earl of Rochester written by his Lordship 's own direction on his Death Bed by the said Gilbert Burnet D. D. Octo. Dr. Burlace's History of the Irish Rebellion Fol. Herodoti Historia Gr. Lat. Fol. Mr. Williams Sermon before the Lord Mayor Octob. 12. 1679. His impartial Examination of the Speeches of the five Jesuits lately executed for Treason Fol. His History of the Powder Plot with a Vindication of the proceedings and Matters relating thereunto from the Exceptions made against it by the Author of the Catholick Apology To which is added A Parallel betwixt that and the present Plot. 4to Mr. Ia. Brome's two Fast Sermons 1679. Dr. Iane's Fast Sermon before the House of Commons Apr. 11. 79. 4to Mr. Iohn Iames Visitation Sermon 4to Mr. Iohn Cave's Fast Sermon Ian. 30. 79. 4to His Assise Sermon at Leicester Iuly 31. 79. Dr. William Cavt's Sermon before the L. Mayor Novemb. 5. 1680. Dr. Puller's Discourse of the Moderation of the Church of England Octo. Dr. Saywell's Original of all the Plots in Christendom Octo. Sir Iohn Manson's Discourse of Supream Power and Common Right Octo. Dr. Edw. Bagshaw's Discourses on several Select Texts Octo. Speculum Baxterianum or Baxter against Baxter 4to Mr. Rushworth's Historical Collections the 2d Vol. in two Parts Fol. His large and exact Account of the Earl of Strafford's Tryal Fol. The Country Man's Physician An Apology for a Treatise of Humane Reason By Matth. Clifford Esq 125. The Laws against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. explained by divers Judgments and Resolutions of the Judges and other Observations thereupon By Will. Cawley Esq Fol. Fowiis's History of Romish Conspiracies Treasons and Usurpation Fol. Rob. Seller's Remarques on the State of the Church of the 3 first Centuries Oct. ●p Sanderson's Sermons Fol. Dr. Hurnet's Fast Sermon before the House of Commons Decemb. 22. 1680. His Translation of the Decree made at Rome March 22. 1679. condemning some Opinion of the Jesuits and other Casuists 4to