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A56700 A sermon preached in the chappel of St. James's before His Highness the Prince of Orange, the 20th of January, 1688 by Symon Patrick ... Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707. 1689 (1689) Wing P846; ESTC R23233 16,187 39

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excellent of all Beings Who delights in the Name of the God of Peace and hath taught his Apostles to tell us that God is Love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for there is no commotion nor stirs in the Godhead but a perfect Unity in that Blessed Trinity And next unto God are the Angelical Powers who are the first Rayes from the first Light and sparkle in no property so much as this Settled quietness and freedom from Contention and Disturbance As for those Angels who would needs raise a Sedition by their discontent and ambition they are fallen from their happy estate and condemn'd to Eternal darkness instead of Light The rest remaining still in their Ancient dignity the principal Glory of which is Peaceableness and unmoveable Love. It follows therefore that all they who embrace Peace and hate Discord and Contention with all the causes of them are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nigh unto God and unto Divine Beings On the contrary they who are quarrelsom and Turbulent the Authors of Division and Makers of parties glory in their Shame and are on the Devils side Who is always unquiet and uneasie in himself and being from the beginning a Murderer and a hater of that which is good Labours to engage Mankind in the like pernicious ways Hiding himself in the midst of Contention and Strife and endeavouring as an Army is wont to do when a few are entred by a little breach among us to get in his whole Body But let us come down from these heights and cast our eyes a while upon the whole Visible world the heavens the earth and every thing therein And take notice what a lovely sight it is when every Creature keeps its place and observes its usuall motions Then it is a World indeed according to its Name and an incomparable beauty I will not proceed in his description of it but only add as he doth that when the earth quakes and is rent in peices when the Sea breakes its banks or the heavens powre down immoderate showers how sad and dismal doth the face of all things appear into what astonishment doth it cast us But this proclaims Peace and Unity unto Mankind who ought to be affrighted by these disastrous accidents from Tumults and Consusions He desires them also to consider how all Societies great and small are preserved and made happy by Unity And by Division utterly destroyed And particularly propounds to them the Example of the Jews who brought upon themselves all those calamities which are unexpressible by their mutinous and seditious courses And Lastly he desires them to learn by their own dear-bought experience which is a Mistress that teaches even fools to be wiser There being no greater shame nothing moresottish then for them to embroil themselves again who are but newly escaped out of the flames wherein they were almost consumed And he subjoynes these two memorable Observations with which I shall conclude 1. They are not the empty headed people as they are vulgarly esteemed who continue constantly settled in one ill State But they who are ever changing like the inconstant aire rolling like the waves of the Sea backward and forward never knowing when they are well nor where to fix and how to settle themselves Such men have no reason to expect ever to be happy as they who continue in one bad condition it is possible may 2. For that 's his next Observation that even they who have been long in a State of Faction and confusion have the hopes of agreement and peace left to comfort them for this is the Support of the miserable that better times may come at last But they who being often brought to an accord are so restless and unquiet that they fall out again are deprived together with the rest of their happiness even of all hopes of agreeing in any Settlement ' dreading concord as much as they do commotion trusting to neither because of their fickle and discontented Spirit in both From which wretched temper of mind and forlorn condition the God of Peace and Love of his infinite Mercy deliver every one of us for the Sake of Christ Jesus who is our Peace Amen FINIS