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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07626	Quadrivium Sionis or the foure ways to Sion By John Monlas Mr of arts	Monlas, John.	1633 (1633)	STC 18020; ESTC S102304	90,305	189

labour if wee left it to God but hee seeing that wee will neither referre it to his justic● nor to his commaundements nor to his promises being unwilling to endure a companion in any of his works hee suffereth us to try our uttermost which is most commonly the cause of our ruine Let us then breake off this discourse which would never end if wee should punctually follow it and let us remember that revenge is our Masters owne dish which none can touch without incurring his indignation And let us imitating our heavenly Father forgive our enemies for if hee should take revenge of all the offences which wee at every moment commit against his sacred Majestie hee would then reduce us to that nothing from whence we came or would inflict upon us eternall paines and punishments since the least offence committed against an infinite goodnesse deserveth an infinite paine and torment Let us then follow Saint Lukes admonition Be mercifull as your heavenly Father is mercifull and presently after wee shall heare that blessed recompence which we shall receive for it to wit Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercie Wee have already shewed how God recompenseth the mercifull yea in this life with blessings favours and graces spirituall and temporall giving unto them a hundred times more then they have given to the poore and giving them consolation in their distresse as they also have suffered with their neighbour in his affliction But let us consider the third fruit of charitable workes which is the highest degree of honour unto which the mercifull shall ascend to wit eternall blessednesse and withall we will also examine the cause wherefore the faithfull receive graces spirituall temporall and eternall which doeth clearely enough appeare in our Text Blessed are the me●cifull for they shall obtaine mercie The onely and perfect felicity of man both in this life and in that to come consisteth simply and soly in the possession of the favour of God which the wicked cruell and impious shall never be partakers of but only the Saints the bountifull and mercifull shall pitch their te●ts there the reason why the one are put backe from this infinite good and that the others shall bee received and cheri●hed therein for ever is because the first have lived in crueltie rigour and tyrannie and shall therefore be thus punished but the second having beene gracious bountifu●l and meeke they shall obtaine mercy according to that saying of Christ With what measure you mete it shall bee measured unto you againe In these words to obtaine mercie wee have many very remarkable circumstances for God will shew himselfe such unto us as wee shall shew our selues to our neighbours if wee give a crumme of bread to the poore languishing at our doores hee will call us into his royall Pallace hee will make us sit downe at his Table he will fill us with the dainties of his house and will make us drinke abundantly in the riv●r of his delights if wee beare with griefe our neighbours affliction if wee dresse his wounds and powre oyle on them hee will comfort u● in our sorrowes hee will wipe off the teares from our eyes and will fill our hearts with joy and gladnesse if wee forgive our brethren their offences when either maliciously or through infirmity they have offended us hee promiseth and assureth us to be so bountifull and mercifull to us that h●e will drive our sinnes away from before his face hee will scatter our misdeedes like a cloud dispersed by the parching beames of the Sunne and in this part shall wee finde the center where the fulnesse of our felicitie resteth and resideth This forgivenesse of our sinnes is that which covereth us from the divine justice that giveth into our hands the shield of assurance which is impenetrable by the revenging shot of his just judgements that maketh us walke voyd of feare towards the throne of grace and that without the least doubting for since God is with us who shall be against us shall the world why it is vanquished shall hell why it is fettered and shackled Shall death why it is dead shall sinne why it is prevented and pardoned Finally shall the flesh why it is crucified Wee may therefore say and conclude with the Apostle Saint Paul O death where is thy sting O hell where is thy victory now thanks be to God that hath given us victory through his Sonne Iesus Christ. From this word obtaine wee will also derive and draw this remarkable doctrine for he presupposeth asking seeing wee cannot obtaine a thing before wee have demaunded it which teacheth us our duties towards God acknowledging our selues poore weake and miserable both in body and soule subject in body to thousands of sicknesses weaknesses and necessities troubled in minde with a world of businesse crosses and afflictions and so laden in soule with sinnes misdeedes and iniquities that they are more in number then the sand that is on the Sea shore But the onely remedy to these sicknesses is to have our recourse to Gods mercie which is the sac●ed anchor of our hopes the haven of our salvation and the eternall residence of our incomparable and incomprehensible felicities And let us hold for certaine and infallible that wee shall never bee refused by his sacred goodnesse which calleth out aloud unto us Math. 11. ●8 come unto me all ye that are troubled ●nd ●e●vie laden and I will ease you take my yoake upon you for it is ●ight and ye shall finde rest to your soules his yoake is nothing else but the affliction weakenesse and necessity of the poore that is the yoake he commandeth us to beare that is to 〈◊〉 we ●ust take off the loade of misery and calamity from the poore to lade it upon our owne shoulders and wee shall finde that his yoake is easie and his burthen light because he will then augment our strength and will make us so able to beare it that we should be sorrowfull ever to cast it off againe As a King findeth the waight of a crowne but small when it is upon his head by reason of the wealth honour and power that follow the heavinesse of this burthen as hee would never leave his Kingdome his power and his Empire for the waight of a S●epter seeing they make him honourable to his Subjects and feared of Strangers so that faithfull man which hath compassed and environed his forehead with the crowne of love to his neighbour that hath adorned his hand with the Scepter of charity to the needy and miserable hee without doubt shall finde rest in his soule which is the fulnesse of all felicity Now since such great and admirable effects since so excellent profits and advantages proceede from our mercie charity and bounty to our neighbour since in the practise of it wee finde our felicity which consisteth in the love which God beareth unto us in the confirmation of the pardon for our offences since againe God assureth us

keepe maximes altogether contrary to those which the world practiseth who doth esteeme farre more those that fight valiantly and that continue obstinately in co●bat then those that make peace and pacifie all things now this maxime was to be practised by the Apostles as being to fight and overcome the world not by force of Armes but by gentlen●sse and mildnesse as we read Saint Luke 10. chap. ver 5. Into whatsoever house ye enter first say Peace be to this house Besides the Apostles were to imitate the Prince of the Apostles Iesus Christ the true and perfect representation of meekenesse humility and mildnesse as we may understand and know if we runne over all the actions of his life untill his ascension up to heaven now this meekenesse proceeded from him both by inclination for he was the Lamb of God and by imitation for he was like his Father that is not a God of confusion but a God of peace as the Apostle saith in the 1. to the Cor. 14.33 And Rom. 16.20 The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feete shortly And 2. Cor. 11. Brethren live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you It was needfull I say that these good Disciples should bee like their Master whose duty and charge it was to reconcile men unto God as we read Rom. 5.10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled wee shall be saved by hi● life And 2. Cor. 5.18.20 God hath reconciled us to hims●lfe by Iesus Chri●t and hath given us the ministery of reconciliation For God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himselfe and not imputing their trespasses unto them And Coloss. 1.20 It pleased the Father to reconcile all things to himselfe through the blood of his crosse O what praise deserue those soules that seeing so many dissentions and quarrells kindled runne presently and make hast to bring the wholesome water of peace and quietnesse least the continuation should cause a totall ruine or some irreparable hurt those I say are doubtlesse and without comparison to be preferred to the valiantest Champions that come into the field for those overcome the bodies these vanquish and tame the mindes those fight for a crowne that will wither these eternally carrie away a greene crowne of benedictions and blessings those teare and breake their bodies these beautifie and strengthen their soules In a word the issue of the combat of those is recompensed but by a little weake renowne in the unconstant different minds of men but the end o● these is an exceeding excellent glory an eternall triumph and trophees that never die in the blessed remembrance of God and the Angels God commanded Noah to build an Arke of polished wood covered with pitch so must all faithfull Christians bee inseparably united the one to the other by chaines of love and bonds of concord and amity that so they may escape from the deluge of unreconcileable ha●red and quarrells A ship split and that takes in water every where give●h feare of an infallible shipwrack for every Kingdome divided shall fall into desolation saith Iesus Christ right so rough and unsociable spirits that will never consent to an agreement are thereby nearer their grave In the Arke of Noah the Lyon was with the Hart the Woolfe with the Lamb the Eagle with ●he Pigeon the Hawk with the Partridge so the peacemaker must procure peace not onely among his neighbours when they are fallen out but he must also receive into the Ar●e of his heart friends and foes without distinction or difference of per●ons Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe saith the law of Moses but the law of grace goes farther and sayeth Love your enemies pray for them that persecute you Mathew 5. and blessing which he gave was Peace be to this house shewing unto us by that that the greatest good and blessing that can happen to man confist in peace When hee was ready to depart out of this world hee said to his Apostles I give you my peace I leave you my peace as being the rarest gift after saluation which he could give unto them Gen. 14.27 Saint Augustine is very witty in these points Sicut spiritus humanus nunquam vivisicat membra nisi fuerint unita sic spiritus sanctus nunquam nos vivificat nisi paece unitos As saith hee the soule of man doth not quicken or vivifie our members unlesse they be joyned together so the holy Ghost doth never vivifie or quicken us but when we are united by the bond of peace Ignatius saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ' There is nothing better then peace And Saint Basil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is nothing more proper and natu●all to a Christian then to reconcile and pacifie Let us say with an ancient Author that peace is the salt of this life without which it is unsavorie and without relish When salt is put into the water it melteth and insensibly becomes liquid but when it is ●h●owne into the fire it cracketh untill it bee quite consumed Even so is the peacemaker for he conformeth and fashioneth himselfe so quietly to peace and tranquilli●y that hee liveth therein as in his owne element out of the which hee cannot subsist but when either by chance or misfortune he findes himselfe in the midst of noyse in the fire of disorder and among the flames of contentions riots then he crieth runneth and tormenteth himselfe untill by his agitation and diligence hee have quenched and repressed all holdi●g this indubitable maxime that Candida pax homines trux decet ira seras In a word to end this discourse of politique peace we say that if warre be a thorne p●ace is a Rose if that be bitternesse this is sweetnesse if that be a storme this is a calme weather if that be full of mifchiefes this is full of goodnesse if that causeth poverty this brings and gives riches In a word if that killeth this giveth life and to end with the Poet let us say Nulla salus bello pacem te poscimus omnes But let us after the example of the high Priest enter into the most holy place of the Temple of Salomon and there visite that sac●ed arke of our consciences within the which God will keepe his sessions let us contemplate that inestimable peace immediatly proceeding from the remission of our sinnes and most particular and perfect assistance of the holy Ghost dwelling in our soules for it is impossible that any other but the just should possesse that peace of conscience seeing that betweene sinne the devils child and the father of trouble and peace and quietnesse there is so great an antipathy that if sinne can set the least footing in any place hee driveth away presently from thence peace and rest and in their roome introduceth and breedeth therein quarrells and contentions which like tormentors doe miserably torture and cruelly handle the