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A91559	The cure of the kingdome, an old fashioned sermon treating of peace, truth, & loyaltie. A discovery of the diseases of the state, with a direction to the true, certaine, and only means for the recovery of health to this distressed nation. / By R.P. ...	R. P.	1648 (1648)	Wing P97; Thomason E465_10; ESTC R144	13,906	22

Ia. 1. 17. As he is the true wisedome and that one good so is he Pax mundi the peace of the world Lux mundi the Light of the world and vita mundi the life of the world He that is the Wisedome Peace Light and life of the world he that is stiled by Gregory bonitas nata hee hath shewed his servants what is good and what is to be desired in this world Is it not good that Peace and Truth c. First of Peace which by Cassian is thus defined Pax est concordantium in bono animorum ordinata tranquilitas peace is an ordinate quietnesse of minds that agree in the same good Hence I inferre that there is no peace to the wicked Esay 41. 1. And that for these reasons 1. They intend no good 2. They consent not to good 3. They order not themselves in the way to good Some make three kinds of peace Internall Externall Eternall 1. The Internall is grounded on faith Rom. 5. 1. Being therefore justified by faith we have peace with God 2. The Externall is set upon Righteousnesse Psal 72. 7. In his time Righteousnesse shall flourish and abundance of peace so long as the Moon endureth The Prophet Esay calleth it the work of Righteousnesse Es 32. 17. S. Iames calleth it the fruit of Righteousness Iam 3. The Psalmist saith Righteousnesse and Peace have kissed each other S. Augustins observation upon the place is very good Vultis pacem amate justitiam will you have Peace love Justice Justice and Peace are two inseparable companions they love one another they kisse one another Therefore if you doe not love Righteousnesse Peace will not love you nor come at you when Jehoram asked Jehu Jehu is it peace Jehu answered how can there be peace so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezabel and her witchcrafts are so many in number To conclude the point with that of Augustine Fiat Iustitia habebis pacem let justice be done and you shall have peace The third kind of peace is Eternall My text goes not so farre mounts not so high yet it is the high way unto it and brings us within the sight of it as Moses from Mount Nebo viewed the Land of Canaan S. Paul Ro 14. 17. doth thus chalk out the way to this eternal Peace Righteousnesse Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost Righteteousnesse leads to Peace Peace to Joy in the Holy Ghost this Joy is crown'd with Glory But to confine my selfe within the limits of my text and to goe no further then Pax temporis the Peace of our dayes and the praise thereof Peace saith Augustine est serenitas mentis tranquilitas animi simplicitas cordis vinculum amoris consortium charitatis Peace is the clearenesse of the mind the simplicity of the heart the quietnesse of the soule the band of love and the consort of charity De verb. Dom. cap. 15. 8. Peace is so nearly affianced to Heaven as that it challengeth her part and property in God who is Deus pacis the God of Peace Heb. 13. 12. All the children of Peace are filij dei the children of God Mat. 5. 9. Blessed are the Peace makers for they shall be called the children of God None are in God but such as are in Peace 1 John 4. 8. None shall see God but such as follow Peace Heb. 12. 14. But Carendo quam fruendo c. good things are most highly prized in the want The sicke man is most fit to extoll the benefit of health The blind man though he cannot judge of colours is fittest to praise the blessing of sight Contraries being placed by contraries doe appeare in their proper colours Let us then take a view of the ill of warres and then wee shall see more clearly the good of peace see the condition of warre and as yee like of it so judge of Peace Warre is the scourge of nations the rod of Gods wrath and the staffe of his Indignation a devouring fire that devoureth to destruction warre in the Greeke is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and hath these two Etymologies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A bloody issue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a common plague The Pestilence is but a private plague in respect of warre that taketh away a part of a Family or of a Citie This disperseth over a countrey and destroyeth a Kingdome This warre that is amongst us is unhappy above all other and that in three attributes being Vncivill Vnnaturall Vnreasonable First uncivill warre is called Bellum which in the proper sense signifieth good But it hath its name ex antiphrasi by the contrary quia minime bonum because it is not good nay the chiefe of evils So civill warre hath its name ex antiphrasi because it is of all most uncivill Civill and intestine warre is most dangerous A Kingdome divided cannot stand The Lord make up the breaches of this Kingdome and joyne the people together into one that they may serve the Lord their God and David their King whom he hath raised over them Ier. 3. 9. Secondly this warre hath beene unnaturall This hath broken the bands even the streightest coujunctions of nature Friendship and Religion First of nature A Father against a sonne vitam qui dedit adimit unheard of cruelty the sonne against the father which might make him justly to take up Davids complaint 2 Sam. 16. 11. Behold my sonne which came out of mine owne bowels seeketh my life O Generation of vipers how shall yee escape the damnation of hell Brothers like Cadmus brood sheathing their swords in each others sides Secondly the band of friendship is broken Two friends in whom there was according to Ariristotles definition of true friendship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one soule in two bodies or as it is said of Ionathan and David 2 Sam. 20. 17. They loved one another as their owne soules These not only brake the League of love but fell into bitter feude The Husband and the Wife which are but one flesh cannot agree to bee of one mind but fall into that distance of opinion that one Church cannot hold them both Thirdly the band of Religion is broken Two that before did unanimously consent in all points of Religion by diversity of opinion about these warres are growne into a division of society that as Paul and Barnabas upon their hot contention they cannot endure to walke together The third unhappy adjunct is unreasonable The chiefe things that made these differences so farre as they are presented to the publicke view were the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion the Priviledge of Parliament the Liberty of the Subject the Property of goods All these as they were earnestly requested of the one party so they were freely protested on the other party And yet for these we must fight and waste our selves and so weaken and destroy a most flourishing Nation You that have had a true sense of all those evils that are come upon us by