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truth_n	church_n	holy_a	scripture_n	9,894	5	6.0621	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45545	The choicest fruit of peace gathered from the tree of life presented to the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in a sermon preached before them at the Abbey church of Westminster, on April 30, 1660, being the day of their solemn humiliation / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing H713; ESTC R17334	18,790	38

under his shadow they violently hewed down the Tree cutting off the head upon pretence of saving the body The precious stones of Zion our Nobles comparable to fine gold were esteemed as earthen pitchers rejected as uselesse our Palaces were swallowed up and our strong holds destroyed the Gates of our City as it were sunk into the ground and our bars broken the Places of our Religious Assemblies shut up and our solemn Feasts forgotten The Princes were polluted the Priests despised and the people sighed under heavy burthens In few words The Crown is fallen from our head the joy of our hearts ceased we are made Orphans and Fatherlesse our necks under a sore persecution yea servants ruled over us and there was none to deliver us out of their hands But he who is the God in the Mount hath looked upon our afflictions and heard our cry put an hook in the nostrils of those wilde Phanaticks who did ride over our heads and trampled us under their feet he hath raised up an ever to be renowned Zerubbabel before whom the Mountains were made plain by whose prudent as well as valiant conduct through Gods wonderfull mercy mighty Forces were conquered without a Fight and scattered without a Rout Our eyes now behold instead of those brambles and thorns which thought themselves firmly rooted a Garden of choice flowers of the Gentry transplanted as it were from all parts of the Countrey into the House of Commons Our goodly Cedars are now planted again in their own House which was for so many years empty unlesse when those Mushromes crept up in it and we hope ere long to see the Stately Oak Finally we are come out of the Babylon of confusion and returning not as some are pleased to phrase it to the Onyons and Garlick of Egypt but to the honey and milk of Canaan and that as the Jews then did without the effusion of bloud And now my Noble Lords what is our earnest hope and expectation but that the great God will honour you to be the Instruments ef compleating that deliverance which he hath been pleased as it were to create for us In order to which though it is far from me to undertake to give your Honours direction yet give me leave to acquaint you what is looked upon by all good men as that which must make us happy and accordingly what is our petition and we doubt not but will be your Lordships endeavour namely the blessing of the Text Peace Peace Peace in the State and peace in the Church I mention the State first since though the peace of the Church be first in order of dignity yet if I may humbly offer my thoughts the peace of the State would be first endeavoured in order of Time since though the State cannot flourish unlesse the Church be setled yet the Church cannot be so well setled as when the State is composed It is very observable what a difference there was between the Altar which Solomon made in a peaceable time and that which Moses made when the people were in an unsetled condition in the wildernesse The Altar which Moses made was but five cubits long five cubits broad and three cubits high but the Altar which Solomon made was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits broad and ten cubits high The work of the Temple went on but slowly when the builders of it were forced to have a sword in one hand as well as a trowell in the other but when once the State is duely setled upon its right basis in quietnesse both hands will be at liberty to build the Temple Peace then would be first sought for in reference to the State by an harmonious Union What other is the State but a politicall body and what other peace can be desirable in a body than an union of the head with the members and the members one with another The State is as a Building whereof the two Houses of Parliament are as it were the two wals to support and defend it but that which must unite and consequently strengthen these two wals is the Corner-stone being set in its proper place and by this means there will be to use the language of my Text Peace to him that is afar off as well as to him that is near yea he who hath been so long too long afar off will become near When this work is once done that which would be earnestly contended for is the peace of the Church that the breaches which scisme hath made so wide may be closed up the hedge which faction hath pulled down may be reared up and we may once again be a garden enclosed and keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Nor is only Peace to be desired in both but to use the duplication in the Text Peace Peace that is a firm lasting peace in both and to this end Peace and truth according to the Prophet Zacharies counsell Love the truth and peace that truth I mean which was once delivered to the Saints which is contained in the holy Scriptures and is collected in the Articles of the Church of England Peace and righteousnesse for so this Prophet assureth us the work of righteousnesse shall be peace Righteousnesse I say which giveth to every one those rights which are due to him by the laws of God and of the Realm and though a full reparation of all injuries is not to be expected yet a restitution of every man to his just right ought to be endeavoured Peace and love which is called by the Apostle the bond of perfection because of peace that love especially which covereth a multitude of offences forgetteth and forgiveth injuries purgeth all malice rancour and revenge out of the mindes of men in which respect I could heartily wish for a Temple like that which was built at Rome Jovi positorio wherein all men of all parties might lay down all heart-burning and animosity against one another for any former wrongs Peace and government for what peace where there is no government what government either in Church or State more likely to establish a firm peace then that under which we did so gloriously flourish for so many years enjoying both peace and plenty Peace and order without which there can be no government order in the State by a fit subordination of the Subjects Liberty to the Soveraigns authority order in the Church by a sweet attemperation of paternall presidency with fraternall presbytery This is that peace which we trust God will now by you ordain for us and oh that all of us would prepare our selves for it by unfained repentance and better obedience our wickednesse hath obstructed our peace too long already let us speedily resolutely joyntly cast it away that it may be no longer a Remora to retard our deliverance And for the more happy accomplishment of this great blessing let us remember that it must be the fruit of our lips