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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85709	A patheticall perswasion to pray for publick peace: propounded in a sermon preached in the cathedrall church of Saint Paul, Octob. 2. 1642. By Matthew Griffith, rector of S. Mary Magdalens neer Old-Fishstreet, London.	Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665.	1642 (1642)	Wing G2016; Thomason E122_17; ESTC R4434	34,095	58

pray for the peace of Ierusalem Secondly let us all like so many good children be prodigall not only of our time and estates but even of our dearest blood in our holy Mother the Churches cause for which Christ gave himself both an offering and a Sacrifice As an offering in his life so Ephes 5 2. a sacrifice in his death There was never any Citie on earth more bravely defended against a forraign Enemy then was Ierusalem against Titus and Vespatian and only upon a conceit that this City was eternall and should never be destroyed But they erred not knowing the Scriptures Mat. 23.37 for the truth is that all the promises of Ierusalems perpetuity and continuance were not made to that Ierusalem which was built with materiall walls for that Ierusalem kill'd the Prophets and ston'd the men of God which were sent unto her and so brought the guilt of innocent blood upon her Gal. â— 25 and is therefore in bondage with her children even unto this day but to the Church of God 1 Pet. 2.4 that Ierusalem which as St. Peter speaks is compacted of living stones cemented with Christs blood built by faith and consisting in the fellowship of the Saints whose maker and builder is God Mat. 16.18 and against this the spirit of truth assures us that neither men nor devills shall ever be able to prevail For as Socrates said of his Accusers Necare possunt nocere non possunt So may I say of the enemies of the Church that they may kill us if God permit but they cannot conquer us Rom. 8 37 For like Sampson we shall be victorious even in death it self at which time Iudges 16.30 with the Proto-martyr St. Steephen we shall see the heavens open Acts 7.56 and the Sonne of man standing at the right hand of God Rom. 8.31 and if we stand for him and he stand for us then who can withstand us And yet as in Ierusalem there were factions by which as Iosephus reports more of the natives and Citizens were slaine within the walls then by the common enemy without so it is most true that there ever have been and that there ever will be factions in the Church though I must tell you that no one age that ever I read of did so abound with them as doth the present Oh what herds swarms and sholes of Sectaries have been seen of late These are dangerous and if not prevented in time they will be deadly enemies to the peace of the Protestant Church established by Law among us And to each of these God our Father and the Church our Mother will say hereafter as the Romane Fulvius did to his revolting son heretofore Non ego te Catilinae genui adversus patriam sed patriae adversus Catilinam Which with some small variation of the words may be rendered thus I begat not thee to assist the Sectaries in their sedition but the true Protestants in their subjection Rom. 13.1 to God for his own sake and to his anointed over us for Gods sake who saith peremptorily in the 13th Chapter to the Romans Let every soule be subject to the higher powers Marke Every one must be subject without excepting or exempting any one Thirdly and lastly let us Oh let us all labour to heal the breaches of the Church as once the Israelites did to build up the wals of their Jerusalem See in the 2d of Nehemiah how carefully he procur'd means from Artaxerxes to reaedify Jerusalem and how couragiously and unanimously the people of God went about it in the midst of so great dangers that they were faign to work with tooles in one hand and swords in the other And thus if we would approve our selves to be true Israelites must we all do our utmost endeavour to build up the Church of God or at least to be repairers of the breaches that are made in the same And this we must do the rather because the Romish Sanballats on the one side and the Rammish Sectaries on the other strive so eagerly at this day to set up their Babell it may be properly so call'd and to pull down our Ierusalem as of old Tertullian complain'd of the Hereticks Nostra suffodiunt ut sua â—dificent Yea the truth is that these our profess'd adversaries on both sides laugh at and jeer us to our faces as Sanballat and Tobiah then did and yet let us be so far from being discourag'd from so religious an enterprize that let us go on in our prayers to God and honest endeavours with men untill we have brought it to perfection Not doubting but what Nehemiah then promis'd Neh 2.20 will in due time be made good unto us The God of heaven will prosper us therefore let us arise and gobnild And that our building in this kinde may go the better forward let us all minde and speak the same things Phil. 2.2 for if in the building of Babell division of tongues hindered the work Gene. 11 8 how much then in that of our Ierusalem Then for conclusion of all let me say unto you with the Apostle in the 13. Chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Corinthians Be ye all of one minde live in peace and the God of peace shall be with you And with you after a speciall manner viz. 2. Cor. 13.11 by blessing your prayers and practise in this kinde with peace all kinds of peace viz. Peace of body in a well-ordered temperature of the severall parts peace of the sensitive soul in a just restraining of the appetite peace of the reasonable soul in the sweet Harmony between action and speculation peace both of body and soul in a sober course of life peace between God and man by faith and obedience peace between man and man by a mutuall entercourse of love politicall peace by the subjection of every soule to the higher powers Ecclesiasticall peace by our joynt prayers for Ierusalem and universall peace by the tending of every creature to that very end for which God made it temporall peace here and eternall peace hereafter And this he grant us who is the God and Father of Peace and that for his dear Son sake who is the Prince of Peace To both whom with the Holy Ghost the blessed spirit of peace three persons and one invisible indivisible and incomprehensibly glorious Lord God be ascribed all Glory Power and Praise now and for evermore Amen FINIS

alas what horrid impiety and extreme ingratitude it is Viper-like to gnaw out the bowells of the Mother Church that bare us May she not justly now renew her old complaints EccÃ¨ in pace mea amaritudo mea amarissima Behold in my peace I had great bitternesse And St Bernard shews you how Isa 38.17 by running thorow all the degrees of comparison thus Amara in persecutionibus Tyrannorum c. Great bitternesse the Church hath alwayes had caus'd by Tyrannicall persecutions Greater bitternesse by reason of hereticall propositions But her greatest bitternesse comes from domesticall dissentitions when as it was foretold in the 7 of Micah a mans enemies are of his own houshold Micah 76. Some Morall Divines hold Rebecca when she bare twins to be a Figure of the Church for though she prayed to God for children yet finding them to strive and struggle in her womb for priority and superiority and feeling the smart of that contention she said If it be so why am I thus as if she wish'd she had never conceived And it is most sure that the Church hath many children whom she hath conceived with care brought forth with pain and brought up with all tendernesse of affection who yet through their grievous strife and schism have so vexed and rent her very bowells of late that she hath just cause to wish she had never conceiv'd them But however these Schismaticks as Saint Augustine speaks of Donatus are in some sense worse then the very Tormentors of Christ upon the Crosse For saith he Venit persecutor non fregit crura Chrisâ—i c. The persecutor came and brake not Christs legs hanging on the Crosse yet Donatus came and rent his Church in pieces Christs naturall Body was whole in the hands of his very Executioners and yet his Mysticall Body is not whole among us that are Christians Yea however these Schismaticks in some sort out-act that Monster Nero's cruelty in ripping up the Womb of their Spirituall Mother Ephes 5.1 yet let us as dear children rather imitate the pity Ier. 31.20 and piety of our heavenly Father And as his bowells were troubled for Ephraim in the 31 of Jeremy so let ours yern for our Jerusalem And the better to expresse our dutifull and due affection to our holy Mother the Church let us all be exhorted to do these three things with which I will conclude First let us pray for her Peace and prosperity For as S. Augustine speaks in his 19 Book de Civitati Dei Tantum est c. Such is the good of Ecclesiasticall Peace that nothing can be heard more acceptable nothing can be coveted more desirable nothing can be found more unvaluable wherefore let him that hath this peace hold it let him that hath lost it seek it for whosoever is not found in peace he shall be rejected by God the Father disinherited by God the Son and discarded by God the holy Ghost And if ever this exhortation To pray for the Churches Peace were seasonable then 't is much more now which makes me to re-inforce it For this Island which was but surrounded before seems at this day to be quite overflowed with water and that with water more brackish then that of the Sea it self even the waters of Meribah The waters of Strife God grant they prove not like the waters of Marah Exod. 17.1 bitter waters in the end For division ever tends to Exo 15.23 and commonly ends in destruction according to that in the 55 Psalm Divide destrue c. Psal 55.9 Divide their tongues and destroy them O Lord for I have seen violence and strife in the City Mark there how division ushers in the destruction of that City which the Psalmist speaks of I hope it was no Prophesie of this And yet are we not divided Have we not answerable to that in the 9 Chapter of Isaiah our Ephraim against Manasses Isa 9.21 and Manasses against Ephraim and both against Judah Have we not Sectaries against Papists and Papists against Sectaries and both against the true Protestant Is not that certain Prognostick of the Generall Judgement at the last day pointed at in the 24 of Saint Matthew now visible in His Majesties Dominions Mat. 24.7 when as Kingdome riseth against Kingdome and Realme against Realme Yea even in this Kingdom are we not divided Have we not innumerable Sects and lamentable Schisms in the Church Have we not dangerous dissention and digladiation in the Common-wealth And doth not our Saviour tell us plainly in the 12 Chapter of S. Matthew That a Kingdom divided against it self Mat. 12.25 shall be brought to delation And shall we not believe him or if we do shall we go on and perish for not obeying him Can we ever hope to prosper whilst we are thus divided and whilst our divisions Iudg. 5 15. like those of Reuben in the 5 Chapter of Iudges are great thoughts of heart and those great thoughts indeed for they are great thoughts against the Liturgy and great thoughts against Episcopacy if not against Monarcy it self These must be confess'd to be great thoughts and so great that there cannot well be greater These lay the Axe to the very root and therefore in reason what can be expected but that these great thoughts should beget great troubles which like so many Mathematicall lines will be Divisibiles in sâ—mper divisibila If we cast off all that is called God among us we must never look for peace as a blessing from God So that what St. Paul speaks of himself and his fellow labourers in the 7th Chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Corinthians may with some advantage be applyed unto us 2 Cor. 7.5 Our flesh hath no rest but we are troubl'd on every side without fightings within are feares And both sides agreeing in the cause of taking up of Arms viz. that they do it for the maintenance of Religion Law Liberty Proprietie c. Do we not both fight for and fear we scarce know what One thing I am sure cannot be denied that through these groundlesse altercations and causelesse feares publike peace is in great danger to be lost if it be not casher'd already and as things now stand we know not well either where to seek it or how to settle it The best way that I can think on for the present is this in the text viz. To pray for the peace of Jerusalem which hath now as great need to be upheld by your faithfull prayers and endeavours as ever had the faint and feeble hands of Moses need to be supported by Aron Exo. 17 1â— and Hurâ— in the 17th Chapter of Exodus Oh then let us all fall close to our prayers for it is an infallible signe of a prophane person when he never puts up an hearty prayer to God for the Church in time of distresse He is no better then a Brat of Babel who cannot be perswaded to

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