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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78027	The peace-maker: or, Solid reasons, perswading to peace: grounded upon the late Solemn covenant. / By H.B.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1646 (1646)	Wing B6170; Thomason E329_5; ESTC R200689	7,997	12

blessed union or to make defection to the con 〈…〉 y part or to give our selves to a det●stable indifferencie or neutrality in this Cause c. But we shall reveale and make known c. And therefore much lesse should we directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination o● subtile insinuation for feare or favour from any that carry two faces under one hood suffer the least alienation of our affections or d 〈…〉 nution of our loyalty to our faithfullest and fastest friends who watch that we may sleep and warre that we may enjoy peace and lie on the cold ground while we in our warm beds and what not Now all these things laid together and well weighed what s 〈…〉 stand in our way to separate us one from another either in affection or a mutuall combination to stick close ●●gether and to contribute our utmost abilities to the helping on of the common cause to come to a timely perfection in an universall fruition of Truth and Peace in this Kingdome and so in this fa●ous City And for this cause let the dividing termes of Presbyterian and Independent come under an A●●●stia and not once be mentioned among us whereof that Noble and Vi 〈…〉 us Army gives us a worthy example where difference of Opinions though there be yet there is such an unity and symp 〈…〉 y of a 〈…〉 ble Affections as if they were so many Member● 〈…〉 〈…〉 naturall Body and acted by one Spirit So as there i● spirit of Peace in the cl●●●ing● of War bright Sun-beames in 〈…〉 of Storms the LORD of Hosts their GOD of Con 〈…〉 So ●●●●●y be said of Num. 23. 21 23. them as once of the camp of Israel There is no 〈…〉 against Jacob nor divination against Israel t●● Lord 〈…〉 God is with them and the shout of a King is a 〈…〉 ● that this spirit did thus act among us here at home by bearing and forbearing one another in love not withstanding ou● difference in judgement waiting till God shall reveale the same truth to those who are otherwise Phil. 3. 15. minded And let each of us practise the counsel of the Holy Ghost Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you Jam. 3. 13. Let him show out of a good conversation his works with meeknesse of wisdome But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the truth This wisdome descendeth not from above but is earthly sensuall devilish For where envying and strife is there is confusion and every 〈◊〉 work But the wisdome that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie And the fruit of righteousnesse is sown in peace of them that make peace And for the procuring and preserving us in the keeping of the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace what can be a stronger tye than the solemn Covenant which was taken to unite the three Kingdomes together in a mutuall ingagement against the common adversary being taken in that sense only which is bounded by the Word of God without which whatever Covenant is made is ipso facto unlawfull and invalid and so doth not bind the conscience So as we are to measure the mind of our Covenant by the Word of Jer. 4. 2. God which requireth an oath to be taken in truth in judgement and in righteousnesse And therefore as the making and taking of this Covenant had this main end in it thereby to glorifie God in a conscientious observing of it for our mutuall good which is in truth and in judgement and not to the hurt or prejudice of any which is in righteousnesse So the constant keeping of it is the very ground and foundation whereon our peace is firmly built as on a rock But if any violence be offered to the true sense of the words and that so a wrong interpretation obtruded upon any mans conscience as pressing either the taking or the keeping of it in such a sense as i● directly contrary to the Word of God surely thus it is made an o●…sion of the violation of peace yea and of causing and fomenting heart-burnings between brethren and ●hat which is directly crosse to the expresse meaning of the Covenant and quite destroyed it it cuts in sunder the very knot that should tie the two Kingdoms together inviolably while some would force upon us a confirmity to that Religion Worship Church government and Discipline which is already established in the Church of Scotland Which as it is no part of the Covenant bearing no such se●… formerly proved so is it flatly against the Word of God and against a main principle in Divinity and of the Law of nature to force any mans conscience to a conformity to any platform of Religion set up 〈…〉 d it in a violation of the law● of Nations for 〈…〉 sse and force upon another f●… State and King 〈…〉 law for the ●…lating of it in m●… Divine worship yea it is an A 〈…〉 stian usurpation●●●sides the unreasonablenesse of it in S●… policie the usuall Cynosure or Pole-star by which the cou●… of Nationall Church-government is steered So as in this consideration that which may suit with one Nation for Politicall 〈…〉 peculiar unto it will not suit with another Nation as being of a different constitution For instance The Church of Scotland hath been formerly en●…d to the Presbyterian Church-Government as they call it so as they have had experience of it and they can well comply with it generally in Scotland But the English Nation never knew yet to this day at least by experience the nature of the Presbyterian Government and so cannot 〈…〉 an estimate how it may sort with our English tempers so w●… with the Scotish and besides there are 〈…〉 thousands in England who are in their consciences convinced and that strongly by the Word of God that there is another kinde of Church-government and that Presbyterian too properly so called but improperly as an improperium Independent which the Scotish brethren are strangers unto And therefore to presse the Scotish Presbyterie upon the State of England 〈…〉 possibly breed some bad blood and cause di●…ers in 〈…〉 and the rather because God hath appeared to own many of those that are so called Independents for his own peop 〈…〉 most gracious eye upon them in crowning them w th many ●vert●es many glorious Victories over their puissant 〈…〉 to whom they are become a terror As on the other si 〈…〉 vers of their country very gracious and amiable in 〈…〉 who le Nation unlesse of such as have lost their 〈…〉 of common humanity in which respect it w 〈…〉 only against Divinity but even against 〈…〉 policie to force upon such W 〈…〉 to 〈…〉 a Church-government as their consci●●ces being ot●●●w 〈…〉 doctrinated by the Word of Christ 〈…〉 y brook An● so much the more in respect of one 〈…〉 h they hold That CHRIST is the only King and Law-g 〈…〉 Consci 〈…〉 and Churches and not any power on earth w 〈…〉 And never did Christ in these later times appears 〈…〉 y i● his Royall power and so●eraig●ry to any 〈…〉 ●● 〈…〉 Men working even wonders by them to ad 〈…〉 ●●●f this were the very time of the fulfilling of that Prophe●●● where John ●ee● H●aven opened and behold a w●ite horse and ●● that s 〈…〉 him Rev. 19. called Faithfull and True who in righteousnesse doth judge and 〈…〉 war clothed with a garment dipt in blood and his name is called THE WORD OF GOD with his Armies following him on white horses clothed in ●●●● linnen white and clean with his sharp sword in his 〈…〉 Nations and 〈…〉 g them with his iron rod having on his vesture and thigh 〈…〉 written THE KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS And thus as chap. 6. 2. He rides on his white horse conquering and to conquer Now this Prince and Lord of Peace himself give ●●●eace alwayes by all ●●●●es even all that love the Truth and Peace Zach. 〈…〉 The Lord be with you all 2 Thes 3. 16. FINIS

The Peace-maker OR Solid REASONS perswading to PEACE Grounded upon the late Solomn Covenant By H. B. ESA. 52. 7. How beautifull upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth Peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publisheth salvation that saith unto Sion Thy GOD reigneth ZACH. 8. 19. Love the TRVTH and PEACE LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1646. A Pacifique OR Solid Reasons perswading to Peace Grounded upon the late solemn Covenant SWeet is the name of Peace but the thing it self when enjoyed much more sweet and most of all after long War as a Sun-shine after a Storm But what Peace Or with whom Surely at least a Civill peace and that with ●ll men if possible so far as peace with men breaks not our pe●●e with God Not a peace with Amaleck or Antichrist with whom the God of Peace will have immortall War But peace amongst those that professe to be the children of peace and friends to Truth as all those do who at this day in City and Country are engaged in the common Cause against the common Enemy Peace I say even amongst dissenting brethren is that here aymed at and desired Now the Reasons perswading to this peace are chiefly taken from the late solemne Covenant for Reformation and for the uniting of the three Kingdomes against the common enemy So as unreasonable it were for any so to strain the genuine sense of the Covenant as to wring blood out of it by forcing it beyond its bounds And therefore for the removing of all Bars obstructing the way to a safe and sound peace let us seriously weigh some principall passages in the said solemn Covenant The first is That we shall sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God indeavour in our severall places and callings the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government against our common Enemies True Against our common Enemies And who are they but the whole faction of Papists the Antichristian Adversary who seek to destroy all that Religion which is termed Protestant and Reformed Against these I say we do by this Covenant oblige our indeavour to preserve c. But hereby we do not bind our selves to set up in England the Religion which is in the Church of Scotland as making that a pattern and a binding Law to us Surely we never intended any such thing in the taking of it otherwise how could we without dishonour to God ingage the Grace of God saying Through the Grace of God For we should be a very ungracious and unworthy Nation without any further caution or proviso to tie up our Consciences to a conformity to anothers Religion although we may have a charitable opinion of it before we have first examined it in all points whether it be according to the Rule Yea we did expresse thus much when we took the Covenant For we hold no Church nor Nation to be infallible nor any Church Reformation so exact in all points as to challenge to it self a power to bind other Churches It is not for a free-born People especially Christs free-born to swear to any such blind obedience Yea we should therein swear to a grosse contradiction in our Covenant where we promise to extirpate all Popery whereof blind obedience is one of the main Pillars as without which what were the Papal Supremacy but as a brutum fulmen a buzzing Bee without a sting And yet we may see into what an inextricable Labyrinth this one blind misconceit would lead us through the grosse and intollerable mistake of this first passage in our Covenant In so much as ●● this miserable mistak● be not the more speedily corrected and cured it threatens at this very time utter ruine to ou● City and Country Good God! What 's become of ou● common prud●●● not to see our danger through importune haste to ●●●o our selves O●●●ver let it be verified of England of London prophesied long ago Esay 29. 14. B 〈…〉 will proc●ed to do a marrvellous work amongst this People even a marvellous work and a wonder For the wisdome of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of the prudent men shall be hid And wherefore Therefore saith the Lord there Even because ver 13. This People draw near me with their mouth and with their lips do honour me but have removed their heart far from me and their feare toward me is taught by the precept of men Therefore c. Read the word and apply it We swear to a Reformation in Religion What Whose O you worthy Senate of London heare and feare and be wise Remember you are English bred nay I hop● Heaven-bre●● Subject not your Consciences to men for he that is Lord over the Conscience is Lord over all We love our neighbours the Scots as they have deserved and we are ready upon occasion to defend them against the common Enemy according to our Covenant but all must be usque ad aras not to subject our Consciences to them Therefore my good hearts let not any spirit of errour possefle you And let not the Crown of Honour which God ●●th put upon London in using you as instruments to rescue this Kingdome be now cast in the 〈…〉 The Parliament loves and honours you so do you it Let none divide between you Wait upon God in all your desires who hath hitherto 〈…〉 ously appeared for the Parliament both in Providence and Power● 〈…〉 God 's ti●● is and what seems good unto his Wisdo●● you sh●ll obtaine of him above your desires And assure your 〈…〉 through our disunions the Parliament should miscarry in the 〈…〉 C●●●e in hand not all ●u● 〈…〉 st professed friends in the world 〈…〉 us from perishing It was a bad sign to Jerusalem when it was said A Jer. 5. 31. wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the L●●d The P●●phets prophecie fa●st and the Priests bear rule by their means and my People love to have it so And what will you do in the end thereof The Lord deliver this City from all such sad presages But I passe to the second main Passage in the Covenant The Reformation of Religion in the Kingdome of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD. Here is set down the sole and suprame Rule of Church-Reformation THE WORD OF GOD. That this is the sole Rule we all agree So that this must be the Touchstone to try the Gold whether it be as pure for substance as in appearance To this Rule the Reformation both in Scotland and England must be reduced Therefore although we shall endeavour as afore the preservation of that Reformed Religion in Scotland against our common Enemies yet we do not binde our selves to the erection and so preservation of the same in England But it is added And the example of the best Reformed