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A49280 Love the pretious oyntment, that flowes downe from the head Christ Jesus, to all his members, and makes them dwell together in unity 1654 (1654) Wing L3222; ESTC R3849 10,092 16

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Mam. de statu animae Lib. 1. tuum Imaginem Dei tui Ille te perinde diligendo Deum in Deo diligat Love thy God and in God love thy brother the image of God and let thy brother in requitall by loving God love thee also in God True Christian love will not be solitary and fruitlesse but it must bring forth peace and be attended by it Love is it selfe the fruit of the spirit and peace is the fruit of this love yea love which delights Col. 3. 14. 15. to be fruitfull loves this peace because by her shee communicates her other fruitfulnesse It is best sowing in a calme and if we will beleeve St James Jam. 3. 18. the fruit of righteousnesse is best sowne in peace So Peace the eldest daughter of Love is a midwife to her mother and delivers her of the rest of her children and without her help the mother doth nothing b●t make abortions Therefore as thou w●uldest have thy love to be fruitfull and by her fruits profitable to the Saints so be thou sure to have her attended by peace that through peace with the Saints thy love may profitably extend it selfe to the Saints The unity of the spirit must be kept in the bond of peace and indeed with whom wilt thou keepe peace if thou wilt not keepe it with those who are one spirit with thee By one spirit are we all Cor. 12. 12 13. baptized into one body and we be members one of another by our unity in this one body How comely yea how necessary is it to the preservation and prosperity of the body that the members of one body be at peace and unity and how monstrous and destructive is it when one member fights with another That fatall sentence cannot be avoyded If Gal. 5. 15. yee bite one another yee shall be consumed one of another But contrarily the Kingdome of God which is peace flourisheth by the peace of the subjects of that Kingdome and therefore St. Paul having taught the former Rom. 14. 17 18. to the Romans adjoyneth the latter and that with a vehemencie for he injoynes them not barely to follow but as it were to persecute even with a swift and eager prosecution to run after the things of peace yea he adjures the Philippians by all conlation Phil. 2. in Christ and by the fellowship of the Spirit and by the bowels of mercy that they be of one accord Finally the Sonne of God our Saviour of whom Melchisedech was a type is the King of peace Heb. 7.2 as well as the King of righteousnesse and his subjects who will partake of his righteousnesse must also partake of his peace Christ hath made peace betweene God and us even peace between Heaven and Earth not that men being at peace above with God should have discord below among themselves but the peace which is begun in Heaven must come downe and dwell among his members on Earth we must be one as he and his Father are Joh 17.21 one the peace which we receive from God by Christ we must impart each to other yea it must Col 3.15 rule in our hearts being called to it in one body Accordingly as we expect peace from God through Christ so let us heare and obey Christ commanding peace amongst our selves Have peace one with another and then let us not doubt but if the Peace of God Mar. 9. 50. be among us the God of peace is also with us Deus semper in pace est Where spirituall and true peace is Chrysol Ser. 54. there ever God is The two excellent and powerfull Graces Love and Peace may not be bounded by us but by God himselfe the Author and Commander of it Him must we follow in the inlarging or straitning of it and not goe from his leading to the right hand or to the left where God commands love and peace we may Act 10. 15 not forbid them neither whom God by sanctifying hath made fit for our peace must we accompt common or uncleane and fit for separation Now Colos 1 4. Eph. 4. 3. 15. the extent and bound which God appoints for our love and peace is no lesse then all the Saints even the whole Body of Christ the bond of peace is not one 1 Joh. 5. 1. 2 Tim. 2.22 jot shorter then the unity of the spirit If then God have not disdained to bestow on any man his sanctifying Spirit let not man scorne on such a one to bestow his love and peace for he that denyeth his love and peace to that man in whom is the Spirit he denyeth his love and peace to the spirit which is in that man Therefore if God have gone before with his saving grace and sanctifying spirit let us not doubt to follow God with our love and Docere voluit quod haec tria sibi invicem connexa sint cohaerent Deus Christus Ecclesia seu universitas credentium adeo ut qui unum ex his vel diligat vel odiat omnia diligat aut odiat Ferus 1 Joh. 5. peace Now we know that God according to his promise to Abraham hath an holy seed out of all Nations which is the Catholicke and Universall Church if then the Church be Catholicke and Universall let our love and peace be also Catholick and Universall And to this end our affections must be enlarged and made capable of the whole world for he that will love a Catholicke Church with a Catholicke love must not have a narrow love contracted and confined to the measure of one City Kingdome or nation but extended and enlarged to the measure of all Cities Kingdomes and Nations even of the whole world If that which is to be loved be universall the affection which loveth must not be partiall For if the love be but to a part when it should be to the whole this is not that Catholick love which belongs to the Catholicke Church and whatsoever title such men may take to themselves they are not true but counterfeit Catholicks for they have not that Catholick spirit of love which is in the true Catholick Church and by which the Catholick Church doth love it selfe with a Catholicke love But such men by likelihood have a private spirit by which they love a private part and faction and are short of that universall spirit which loveth the universall Church with an universall love for there is a private spirit of love as well as of faith and it is that kinde of spirit which Saint James mentioneth Jam. 4. 5. 3. 14 15 a spirit that lusteth after envie after Sects and divisions But let us never rest untill we get that Catholicke spirit by which we may embrace the Catholick Church with a Catholick love and then we may be assured we are not titular but true and reall Catholicks Hereby we know that we are of the truth saith Saint John and we shall assure our