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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57150	The peace of Jerusalem a sermon preached in the Parliament House, Jan. 9, 1656 : being a day of private humiliation kept by the members thereof / by Edward Reynolds.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1271; ESTC R22215	20,052	40

the love of the woman of Canaan to her daughter who could pick out an Argument out of a Repulse and turn that which seemed a g reproach into a Petition Love is that which commends every service to God the touchstone by which all our duties are to be tried h Martyrdom without love is nothing 1 Cor. 13.1 3. i Truth without love is nothing 2 Thes. 2.10 Prayer without love is nothing Doeg was detained before the Lord but his hatred to David brought a curse upon him for all his prayer 1 Sam. 21.7 The Lord looks not to pretence but to truth and will answer every man according to the love or to the Idols of his own heart Ezek. 14 1-5 A man may pray for the Church of God only out of self Love as the Jews were to pray for Babylon Ier. 29.7 because his own safety is involved in it as the life of the Ivy depends upon the standing of the Oak but true prayer for the Church is that which is grounded upon love of the Church it self upon zeal for Gods truth and worship upon delight in his Oracles and presence because here onely the means of salvation and the word of life is dispensed because in the distresses of the Church Gods name is blasphemed the Blood and Spirit of Christ is injured the glory of the Gospel is eclipsed the Enemies of God are comforted What wilt thou do said Ioshua to thy great name Nehemiah and Esther were great enough themselves but the afflictions of the Church made them mourn and pray And as no duties are acceptable unto God which do not proceed out of Love so no pretence of love is acceptable unto him which doth not put forth it self into duty This was the proof of Davids love I love the Lord I will call upon him Psalm 116.1 2. This the proof of Pauls love My hearts desire and prayer for Israel is that they might be saved Rom. 10.1 when God is angry we find Moses in the gap Psal. 106.23 When Israel flies Ioshua prayes when the plague is amongst the people David is at the Altar 2 Sam. 24.25 When Enemies are in Arms Iehoshaphat and Asa are upon their knees when Rabshekah is railing Hezekiah is intreating the Lord Here is the proof of Love it draws out the soul into all zealous endeavours for the peace of the Church where there is no other ability yet love will pray and as Solomon saith of a poor wise man we may say of a poor praying man that he hath a great hand in delivering the City Eccles. 9.15 The meanest Christian may pray for the peace of the Church But I must apply my Exhortation in the use of this Doctrine unto those who must do more then pray who have hands as well as knees power as well as prayer to put forth for God In how unsetled and discomposed a condition the Church of God is yet amongst us every mans eyes sees and I think every good mans heart doth sorrow to see the holy Ordinances of Christ by multitudes quite forsaken the holy truth of Christ by many corrupted with the leaven of heresie and blasphemy Emissaries walking up and down to draw away credulous and unstable souls into by-paths to follow every ignis fatuus which doth mislead them Multitudes of active and vigilant enemies who know not how to work under a disguise and by good words and fair speeches to deceive the hearts of the simple Multitudes of credulous ductile and unstaid spirits tossed up and down and carried about with every wind of Doctrine by the sleight and cunning craftiness of men who lye in wait to deceive We see how fast these evil weeds have grown what advantages the enemy hath taken in all places to sow his cares and to lay his leaven How greatly his hopes have been raised and his attempts encouraged by the experience which he hath of the lubricity and instability of the vulgar people amongst us As it is said that the Chief Priests moved the people against Christ Mar. 15.11 So the common enemy instills his poison into the people to try if by degrees he can bring things into a flame and commotion like that Act. 19. and then have some crafty Demetrius in a readiness to cry up Diana and you may observe how cunningly the Scene is laid 1. Cry up a boundlesse and universal liberty for every man to teach to publish to insinuate into others whatsoever doctrines he please be the tendency of them never so destructive to truth peace and godliness 2. Cry down the coercive power of the Magistrate in matters of Religion that so there may be no hedge to keep the Wolves out 3. Bring into contempt the faithful and able Ministers of the Gospel as hirelings and seducers that so what ever Arguments they shall produce in defence of the Truth may be wholly enervated and blown over by the prejudice against their persons 4. Decry Learning and the Schools of the Prophets as things rather dangerous then subservient unto Religion that so there may be no Smith in Israel least the Hebrews make them Swords and Spears 1 Sam. 13.19 5. Cry down the maintenance of the Ministry that when that is wholly taken away no man may breed his child to a hungry lean starved profession that so Emissaries who shall have an invisible maintenance from abroad may have the freer entertainment to spread their snares 6. Put Doctrines which in their own proper colours would not be swallowed into a disguise give them a Periwig if I may so speak and another name that they may not be known to be the thing which they are that in the dark and under a vail Leah may go for Rachel and in a mantle the Divel may be Samuel I doubt not but that your eys are open to see the danger I beseeh you let your hearts be awakened to consider of expedients to prevent it k That Magistrates have a care and duty lie upon them to look after the interest of the Church of Christ and to see that that may be preserved from pernicious and destructive evils that the Officers and Members thereof do in their several stations the several duties belonging unto them though I doubt not but you are setled in so wholesome a perswasion give me leave in three words to demonstrate unto you First the Lord did expresly command that Idolaters and Inticers to Idolatry Blasphemers Presumptuous and prophane despisers of Gods Law should be punished He that sacrificeth unto any God save unto the Lord onely he shall be utterly destroyed Exod. 22.20 He that blasphemeth the Name of the Lord shall surely be put to death and all the Congregation shall certainly stone him as well the stranger as he that is born in the Land when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord shall be put to death Levit. 24.16 The soul that doth ought presumptuously whether he be born in the Land or a stranger the same