THE True Peace-Maker Laid forth in a Sermon before his Maiesty at Theobalds September 19 1624. By IOS HALL Deane of Worcester LONDON Printed by J. Haviland for Nath. Butter 1624. THE TRVE PEACE-MAKER ESAY 32. 17. Opus Iustitiae pax The worke of Iustice or righteousnesse shall be peace MY Text you heare is of Iustice and peace two royall graces and such as flow from soueraigne Maiesty There is a double Iustice Diuine and humane there is a double peace outward in the state inward in the soule Accordingly there is a double sense of my Text a spirituall a ciuill sense The spirituall concerning Theologicall Iustice and inward peace The ciuill concerning humane Iustice and outward peace The spirituall thus The Messias shall cause the fruit of his perfect iustice to be our inward peace with God and our selues The ciuill thus The Magistrate shall cause the worke of ciuill Iustice in his administration to be our outward peace with one another In both or either as Musculus well there is an allusion in the Hebrew word to a field the soile is the heart or the State the seed is Iustice the fruit peace That which was waste ground is now a Carmell a fruitfull field and the fruit of this field of Iustice is peace As there is good reason we will beginne with the spirituall Iustice and Peace The great King of Heauen will disforest that peece of the world which he calls his Church and put it to tillage it shall bee sowne with righteousnesse and shal yeeld a sweet crop of peace in this only not in the barren heaths of the prophane world shall true peace grow At first God and man were good friends How should there be other than good termes betwixt Heauen and Paradise God made man iust and iust man whiles he was so could not chuse but loue the iust God that made him sinne set them at odds in one act and instant did man leese both his iustice and peace now the world is changed now the stile of God is Fortis vltor God the auenger Ier. 51. 56. and the stile of men Filij irae sonnes of wrath Ephes 2. 3. There is no possible peace to bee made betwixt God and man but by the perfect Iustice of him that was both God and man I would there were a peace in the Church about this Iustice It is pitie and shame there is not but there must be heresies As there are two parts of Diuinity the Law and the Gospell so each of these haue their Iustice there is a iustice of the Law and an Euangelicall Iustice The Iustice of the Law when a meere morall man is iustified out of his owne powers by the works of the Law very Papists will giue so much way to S. Paul so much affront to Pelagius as to renounce this freely anathematizing that man who by the strength of humane nature or the doctrine of the Law shall challenge iustification Vnlesse perhaps some Andradius haue priuilege to teach that this Ethica Iustitia was enough to iustifie and saue the old Philosophers The Euangelicall Iustice is not without the interuention of a Sauiour To which claime is laid in two kindes either as imputatiue or as inherent The inherent wrought in vs the imputed wrought for vs. How easie were it to lead you through a thicke of distinctions into a large field of controuersie concerning the nature meanes manner of our Iustification No head in all Diuinity yeelds either more or more important Problems In so much as Cardinall De Monte Vice-President for the time of the Councell of Trent in an Oration made by him in the eleuenth session professes that when they meant to dispatch their Decree concerning Iustification in fifteene daies it cost them seuen moneths to finish without one daies intermission and when all is done they haue left the world which was before as Pighius ingenuously intricated by the thorny questions of Schoolemen rather more vnsatisfied perplexed than they found it It is the maine care of our liues and deaths what shall giue vs peace and acceptation before the dreadfull Tribunall of God What but righteousnesse What righteousnesse or whose Ours or Christs Ours in the inherent graces wrought in vs in the holy workes wrought by vs or Christs in his most perfect obedience and meritorious satisfaction wrought for vs applied to vs. The Tridentine faction is for the former wee are for the latter God is as direct on our side as his Word can make him Euery where blazoning the defects of our owne righteousnesse the imperfections of our best Graces the deadly nature of our least sinnes the radicall sinfulnesse of our habituall concupiscence the pollution of our best workes Euery where extolling the perfect obedience of our Redeemer the gracious application of that obedience the sweet comfort of that application the assurance and vnfailablenesse of that comfort and lastly our happy rest in that assurance I instance not open the Booke see where your eies can looke beside these Satis aperti saith their Cassander The Scripture is cleare ours So is all antiquity if they beleeue that learned Arbiter So are their more ingenuous Doctors of the last age So would they all be if they had grace to know God themselues grace sinne heauen hell God perfectly iust themselues miserably weake Grace sensibly imperfect sinne vnmeasurably sinfull Lastly if they knew that heauen is for none but the pure that hell is for the presumptuous O Sauiour no man is iust through thee but he that is sanctified by thee What is our inherent justice but sanctity That we aspire towards we attaine not to Woe were vs if we were not more iust in thee than sanctified in our selues we are sanctified in part according to the weaknesse of our receit we are iustified thorowly according to the perfection of thine acceptation were we fully sanctified here we should be more than men were we not thorowly iustified wee should be no more than sinners before thee whiles we stand before thee as sinners we can haue no peace Let others trust in the Charets and Horses of their owne strength we will remember the Name of the Lord our God The worke of thy Iustice shall be our peace Peace is a sweet word Euery body would be glad of it especially Peace at the last as the Psalmist speakes How haue the politickly religious held out twigs for the drowning soule to catch at Due satisfactions vndue supererogations patronages of Saints bargaines of Indulgences woollward pilgrimages and at last after whips and haire-clothes leaue the dying soule to a feare of Hell doubt of Heauen assurance of Purgatory flames How truly may it now say to these Doctors as Iob to his friends Miserable comforters are yee all Hearken O yee deare Christians to a better voice that sounds from heauen Come to me all yee that labour and are heauy laden and I will giue you rest Is there any of you whose
to the stake to hell for Heretikes What more vniust than to falsifie the writings of ancient or moderne authors by secret expurgations by wilfull mis-editions what more vniust than the with holding the remedy of generall Councels and transacting all the affaires of the Church by a pack't Conclaue What more vniust than the suppression of the Scriptures and mutilation of the Sacrament to the Laity What more vniust than allowance of equiuocation than vpholding a faction by willing falshood of rumors than plotting the subuersion of King and state by vnnaturall conspiracies Well may we call heauen and earth to record against the iniustice of these claimes of these practises What then Is it to hope for peace notwithstanding the continuance of all these So the worke of Iniustice shall be peace And an vniust and vnsound peace must it needs be that arises from Iniustice Is it to hope they will abandon these things for Peace Oh that the Church of God might once be so happy That there were but any life in that possibilitie In the meane time let God and his holy Angels witnesse betwixt vs that on their part the peace faileth we are guiltlesse What haue we done What haue wee attempted what haue we innouated Onely wee haue stood vpon a iust and modest negatiue and haue vniustly suffered Oh that all the innocent bloud wee haue shed could wash their hands from Iniustice from enmity to Peace That from them wee may returne to our selues For the publique wee enioy an happy Peace Blessed be God for Iustice and if in this common harmony of Peace there be found some priuate iarres of discord whence is it but from our owne Iniustice The world is of another minde whose wont is to censure him that punishes the fault not him that makes it Seuerity not guiltinesse in common opinion breakes the peace Let the question bee who is the great make-bate of the world begin with the family Who troubles the house Not vnruly head strong debaucht children that are ready to throw the house out of the windowes but the nustere father that reproues that corrects them would he winke at their disorders all would be quiet Not carelesse sloathfull false lime-fingred seruants but the strict master that obserues and rates and chastises them would he hold his hands and tongue there would bee peace Not the peeuish and turbulent wife who forgetting the ribbe vsurps vpon the head but the resolute husband that hates to leesse his authority in his loue remembring that though the ribbe bee neare the heart yet the head is aboue the shoulders Would he fall from the termes of his honour there would be peace In the Country not the oppressing Gentleman that tyrannizes ouer his Cottagers incroches vpon his neighbours inheritance incloses commons depopulates villages scruzes his Tenants to death but the poore soules that when they are crushed yeeld the iuyce of teares exhibit bils of complaint throw open the new thornes maintaine the old mounds would these men bee content to be quietly racked and spoyled there would be peace In the City not the impure Sodomitish brothels that sell themselues to worke wickednesse not the abominable Pandars not the iugling cheater not the counterfeit Vagrant but the Marshall that drawes these to correction Not the deceitfull Merchant that sophisticates his commodities inhanceth prices sells euery inch of what he cannot warrant Time Not the vnconscionable and fraudulent Artisan but the promoter and the Bench. In the Common-wealth not the cruell robber by sea or land that lies in the way like a spider in a window for a booty for bloud Not the bold night-walker that keepes sauage houres fit for the guiltie intentions of his burglaries but the watch that takes him Not the rank adulterer that neighs after his neighbours wife and thirsts after only stolne waters but the sworne men that present him Not the trayterous Coyner that in euery stampe reades his owne conuiction whiles hee still renewes that face against which hee offends but the Sheriffe that attaches him Not the vnreformable drunkard that makes a God of his liquor a beast of himselfe and raues and swaggers in his cups but the Constable that punishes him would these officers conniue at all these villanies there would be peace In the Church not the chaffering Patron or periured chaplaine not the seducing hereticke or seditious schismatike not the scandalous Leuite not the carelesse questman not the corrupt Officiall but the clamorous Preacher or the rigorous High-Commission In the world lastly Not the ambitious incrochers vpon others dominions not violaters of leagues not vsurpers of mis-gotten titles and dignities not suborners or abettors of conspiracies and traitors but the vnkinde patients that will not recipere ferrum I wis the great Potentates of the world might see a ready way to Peace Thus in family countrey citie commonwealth Church world the greatest part seeke a licentious peace in a disordered lawlessenesse condemning true iustice of cruelty stripping her of the honour of peace branding her with the censure of troublesome Foolish men speake foolish things Oh noble and incomparable blessing of peace how iniuriously art thou ascribed to vniust neglect Oh diuine Vertue of Iustice how deseruedly haue the Ancients giuen thee wings and sent thee vp to heauen in a detestation of these earthly indignities whence thou comst not downe at all vnlesse it please that essentiall and infinite Iustice to communicate thee to some choyce fauourites It is but a iust word that this Iland hath beene long approued the darling of heauen We haue enioyed peace to the admiration to the enuie of neighbourhood Would we continue it would we traduce it to ours Iustice must doe it for vs. Both Iustice and Peace are from the throne Peace is the Kings Peace and Iustice descends from Soueraignty by commission Let me haue leaue to say with the princely Prophet a word that was too good for the frequent text of a Pope Diligite iustitiam qui iudicatis terram Still ô God giue thy iudgements to the King and thy Iustice to the Kings sonne And if any shall offer wrong to the Lords anointed in his person in his seed the worke of that iniustice shall be war yea Bellum Domini the Lords war 2 Sam. 25. 28 Then let him who is both the Lord of Hosts and the God of peace rise vp mightily for his anointed the true King of Peace that he who hath graciously said all this while Da pacem Domine Giue peace in our time O Lord may superscribe at the last his iust Trophees with Blessed bee the Lord which teacheth my hands to warre and my fingers to fight Ye haue heard of the spirituall Iustice and Peace Yee haue heard of the Ciuill may it please you to mix both of them together My text alone doth it if you doe but with our most accurate Translation reade Righteousnesse for Iustice So shall you see the spirituall disposition of Righteousnesse produce the
pettylarzons ropes for fellons weights for the contumaciously silent stakes for blasphemous hereticks gibbets for murtherers the hurdle and the knife and the pole for traitors and vpon all these engines of Iustice hangs the garland of peace It was not for nothing that Maximilian the first passing by the gallowes saluted it with Salue Iustitia Ye neuer see Iustice painted without a sword when that sword glitters with vse it is well with the publique woe be to the Nation where it rusts There can bee no more acceptable sacrifice than the bloud of the flagitious Immediatly after Garnets execution Father Dauid at Ypre in a publike Sermon declared the miracles showne thereat Amongst the rest that a spring of oyle brake forth suddenly in the place where that Saint was martyred Instead of a lie let it be a parable The bloud of Traitors shed by the sword of Iustice is a well of oyle to fatten and refresh the Common-wealth I know well how mercy befits the mouths of Gods Ministers The soft tongue of a Diuine is no meet whetstone for the edge of seueritie but withall I dare say that Iustice is a noble worke of mercy neither need we wish to be more charitable than the God of mercy that saies Thine eie shall not spare the murtherer Numb 35. 31. The Tempter to idolatry Deut. 13. 6. The very sonnes of Leui were appointed to win an euerlasting blessing by consecrating their hands to God in Israelitish bloud The vniust fauour and plausibilitie of Romish Doctors towards capitall offenders hath made their Sanctuaries euen literally a denne of theeues an harbour of villany It is memorable of Lewis of France stiled the Saint that he reuersed a pardon wrought from him to a malefactor vpon reading that verse in the Psalme Beati qui faciunt iustitiam in omni tempore Blessed are they that doe iustice at all times No maruell if one of those foure things which Isabell of Spaine was wont to say she loued to see were A Theefe vpon the ladder Euen through his halter might she see the prospect of peace Woe bee to them that either for gaine or priuate interest ingage themselues in the suit of fauour to maliciously bloudy hands that by the dam of their bribes labour to stop the due course of punitiue Iustice these these are the enemies of peace these staine the land with that Crimson die that cannot be washed out but by many wofull lauers of reuenge Farre farre be it from any of you generous Christians to endeuour either to corrupt or interrupt the waies of iudgement or for a priuate benefit to crosse the publique peace Woe be to those partiall Iudges that iustifie the wicked and condemne the innocent the girdle of whose equitie saggs downe on that side where the purse hangs Lastly woe to those vnworthy ones that raise themselues by fraud bribes symony sacrilege therefore are these enemies to the state because to peace and therefore enemies to peace because violaters of justice And the worke of Iustice is peace Thirdly that commutatiue Iustice workes peace needs no other proofe than that all the reall brabbles and suits amongst men arise from either true or pretended iniustice of contracts Let me lead you in a tearme morning to the spacious Hall of Iustice What is the cause of all that concourse that Hiue-like murmur that noise at the barre but iniurious bargaines fraudulent conueyances false titles disappointment of trusts wrongfull detrusions of money goods lands couzenages oppressions extortions Could the honesty and priuate Iustice of men preuent these enormities silence and solitude would dwell in that wide Palace of Iustice neither would there bee more Pleas than Cob-webs vnder that vast roofe Euery way therefore it is cleere that the worke of Iustice is peace In so much as the Guardians of peace are called Iusticers This for the Common-wealth If it please you to cast your eies vpon her Sister the Church you shall finde that the outward peace thereof also must arise from Iustice Alas thence is our hopelesnesse Neuer may they prosper that loue not that wish not peace within those sacred walls but what possibility of peace in the peremptory repulses of Iustice What possibility of Iustice in the long vsurped tyranny of the successor of Romulus Could we hope to see Iustice once shine from those seuen hills we would make account of peace but oh the miserable iniustice of that imperious Sea Iniustice of claime iniustice of practice Of claime ouer Kings Church Scriptures Conscience Ouer Kings there is S. Pauls super-exalted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His vsuall title is Orbis Dominus Dominus vniuersorum in the mouthes pens of his flatterers And lest Princes should seeme exempted He is Rex Regum as Paulus 4. saies of himselfe he is super Imperatores reges saith their Antoninus Triumphus Capistranus and who not How much you know the calculation of the magnitude of the two great lights How ouer them As the master ouer the seruant they are the words of their Pope Nicholas The Imperiall throne is vnde nisi à nobis saith Pope Adrian What should I tel you of his bridle stirrup toe cup canopie Let the booke of holy Ceremonies say the rest These things are stale The world hath long seene blushed Ouer the Church There is challenged a proper head-ship from whom all influences of life sense motion come as their Bozius why said I ouer Hee is vnder the Church For he is the foundation of the Church saith Bellarmine Ouer as the head vnder as the foundation What can Christ be more Thence where are generall councells but vnder him as the streame of Iesuites Who but he is regulafidei as their Andradius he alone hath infallibility indefectibility whether in decretis fidei or in praeceptis morum as Bellarmine Hee hath power to make new Creeds and to obtrude them to the Church the deniall whereof was one of those Articles which Leo the tenth condemned in Luther Ouer Scriptures There is claimed a power to authorize them for such A power to interpret them sententialiter Obligatoriè being such A power to dispense with them ex causâ though such Ouer the consciences of men In dispensing with their oathes in allowance of their sinnes It is one head of their Canon Law A Iuramento fidelitatis absoluit Decret p. 2. Caus 15. qu. 6. And in euery oath is vnderstood a reseruation and exception of the Popes power say his Parasites I am ashamed to tell and you would blush to heare of the dispensation reported to be granted by Sixtus 4. to the family of the Cardinall of Saint Lucie and by Alexander 6. to Peter Mendoza Cardinall of Valentia And as there is horrible iniustice in these claimes so is there no lesse in practise Take a taste for all What can be more vniust than to cast out of the lap of the Church those that oppose their nouelties to condemne them
vnquiet breast boiles continually with the conscience of any foule sinne whose heart is daily tyr'd vpon by the vultur of his secret guiltinesse whose bosome is gnawed before-hand with that hellish Worme which can no more giue ouer than die It boots not to aske thee if thou wouldst haue peace Peace Rather than life Oh wherewithall shall I come before the Lord and bow my selfe before the most high God Shall I come before him with burnt offerings Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rammes or with tenne thousand Riuers of Oyle Shall I giue my first borne for my transgression the fruit of my body for the sinne of my soule Heare O thou distracted heart what talkest thou of giuing to the owner The world is his thou art not thine owne Yea were these things thine and not his yet know it is not giuing but taking that must procure thy peace An infinite Iustice is offended an infinite Iustice hath satisfied an infinite mercy hath applied it Take thou hold by the hand of faith on that infinite mercy and justice of thy Sauiour The worke of his Iustice shall be thy peace Fly about whither thou wilt O thou weary Doue thorow all the wide Regions of the heauen and waters thou shalt no where finde rest for the soles of thy feet but in this Arke of Christs perfect righteousnesse In vaine shalt thou seeke it in schooles of morality in learned Libraries in spacious fields and forrests in pleasant gardens in sullen retirednesse in witty conuersation in wanton Theaters in drunken cellers in tables of gluttony in beds of lust chests of Mammon whiffes and draughts of intoxication songs of ribaldry sports of recreation No no the more thou seekest it in most of these the further it flies from thee the further thou art from finding it and if these things may giue some poore truce to thy thoughts it shall soone end in a more direfull warre There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Stray whither thou wilt O thou wounded heart thorow the Lawnds and Woods alas the shaft sticks still in thee or if that bee shaken out the head None but the soueraigne Dittany of thy Sauiours righteousnesse can driue it out and till it be out thou canst haue no peace In plaine termes wouldst thou haue peace None but Christ can giue it thee He will giue it to none but the penitent none but the faithfull Oh spend thy selfe into the sighes and teares of true repentance and then raise thy humbled soule to a liuely confidence in thine all-sufficient Redeemer Set thy Lord Iesus betwixt God and thy sinnes God cannot see thy debt but through thine acquittance By his stripes we are healed by his wounds we are stanched by his death we are quickned by his righteousnesse we are discharged The worke of his righteousnesse is our peace Oh safe and blessed condition of beleeuers Let sinne Satan world death hell doe their worst Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect It is God that iustifieth who shall condemne It is Christ that died yea rather that is risen againe who is also at the right hand of God and maketh intercession for vs Our enemy is now our Father our Iudge is our Sauiour the offended our surety that precious bloud our ransome that perfect righteousnesse our euerlasting peace Thus much of our spirituall Iustice and Peace The Ciuill followes I know these two are wide termes Iustice comprises all vertue as Peace all blessings For that is iust in all kinds which hath a meet adequation to the rule All vertue therefore conforming vs to the law of God which is the rule of perfection challengeth iustly to it selfe a stile of justice Narrower bounds will serue our turne We speake of Iustice first as a single vertue Habits are distinguished by their acts acts by their obiects The obiect of all morall vertue is good as of all intellectuall is True The obiect of this vertue of Iustice is the good of men in relation to each other Other vertues order a man in regard to himselfe Iustice in regard to another This good being either common or priuate common of all priuate of some the acts and vertue of Iustice must bee sutable Either as man stands in an habitude to the whole body or as he stands to speciall limbs of the body The former of these is that which Philosophers and Casuists call a legall and vniuersall Iustice The latter is that particular Iustice which we vse to distinguish by Distribution and Commutation the one consisting in matter of Commerce the other in Reward or Punishment both of them according to a meet though different equality An Arithmeticall equality in Commutation a Geometricall in distribution the former regarding the value or worth of the thing the latter regarding the proportionable difference of the person The worke of all these three Iustices is Peace First the legall Iustice is the apparent mother and nurse of publique Peace When Gouernors and subiects are carefull to giue each other their owne when both conspire to command and obey for the common good when men frame their liues to the wholsome lawes of their Soueraignes not more out of feare than conscience when respect to the community caries men from partiall reflections vpon thēselues As contrarily distractions and priuate ends are the bane of any state When the head and members vnite their thoughts and endeuours in the center of the common good the head to deuise and command the eies to see the eare to heare the palate to taste the heart to moue the bellowes of the lungs to blow the liuer to sanguifie the stomach to digest the guts to export the hands to execute the tongue to talke for the good of this naturall Common-wealth of the body all goes well and happily but if any of these parts will be gathering to themselues and obstructions grow within and mutinous distempers arise in the humors ruine is threatned to the whole If either the Superiors miscommand or the inferiors disobey it is an affront to Peace I need not tell you that good lawes are the walls of the Citie the sinewes of the politicke body the rule of our life the life of our state without which men would turne brute yea monstrous the world were a Chaos yea an hell It is wisdome that makes lawes it is Iustice that keeps them Oh let this Iustice still blesse vs with a perpetuall peace as those that doe not thinke the world made for vs but our selues made for the world let vs driue at an vniuersall good let there be euer that sweet correspondence betwixt Soueraignty and subiection that the one may be happy in the other both in peace Secondly the distributiue Iustice is not lesse fruitfull of peace when rewards of honors gracious respects are suited to the well-deseruing when malefactors smart according to their crimes This Iustice hath stocks for the vagrant whips for harlots brands for
ciuill effect of Peace What is Righteousnesse but the sincere vprightnes of the heart to God in all our waies He is perfect with God that would be so What need I tell you that this is the way to true inward peace Nil conscire A cleare heart will be a quiet one There is no feast to a good conscience this is meat musicke welcome It seemes harder that true spirituall honesty should procure euen outward peace Heare wise Salomon By the blessing of the vpright the city is exalted Prou. 11. 11. When a mans waies please the Lord hee maketh euen his enemies to bee at peace with him Prou. 16. 7. Righteousnesse exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people Prou. 14. 34. It followes then as a iust corollary That the honestest and conscionablest man is the best subiect He may perhaps be plaine perhaps poore perhaps weake but the state is more beholden to his integrity than to the ablest purse than to the strongest arme Whereas the gracelesse and vicious person let him be neuer so plausible a talker neuer so carefull an Officer neuer so valiant a Leader neuer so officious a courtier neuer so deepe in subsidies neuer so forward in actions is no other than an enemy to the state which hee professes to adore Let no Philosopher tell me of malus vir bonus ciuis I say from better authoritie that a lewd man can no more be a good subiect than an ill subiect can bee a good man Heare this then wheresoeuer ye are ye secret oppressors ye profane scoffers yee foule-mouth'd swearers yee close adulterers ye kind drūkards and who euer come within this blacke list of wickednesse how can ye be loyall whiles you lodge traytors in your bosomes Protest what ye will your sins breake the peace and conspire against the sacred Crowne and dignitie of your Soueraigne What care wee that you draw your sword and vow your bloud and drinke your healths to your Gouernours when in the meane while you prouoke God to anger and set quarrels betwixt your Country and Heauen That I may winde vp this clew It were folly to commend to you the worth of peace we know that the excellency of Princes is expressed by serenity what good hath the earth which God doth not couch vnder the name of Peace Blessed be God and his Anointed we haue long and comfortably tasted the sweetnesse of this blessing the Lilies and Lions of our Salomon haue beene iustly worded with Beati pacifici Would we haue this happinesse perpetuated to vs to posterity Oh let Prince and people meet in the ambition to be Gens iusta a righteous nation righteous euery way First let God haue his owne His owne daies his owne seruices his feare his loue his all Let Religion leade all our proiects not follow them let our liues be led in a conscionable obedience to all the lawes of our maker Far bee all blasphemies curses and obscenities from our tongues all outrages and violences from our hands all presumptuous and rebellious thoughts from our hearts Let our hearts hands tongues liues bodies and soules be sincerely deuoted to him Then for men let vs giue Caesar his owne Tribute feare subiection loyalty and if hee need our liues Let the nobility haue honour obcisance obseruation Let the Clergy haue their dues and our reuerence Let the commons haue truth loue fidelity in all their transactions Let there be trutinae iustae pondera iusta Let there be no grinding of faces no trampling on the poore Amos 5. 11. no swallowing of widdowes houses no force no fraud no periury no perfidiousnesse Finally for our selues let euery man possesse his vessell in holinesse and honour framing himselfe to all Christian and heauenly temper in all wisdome sobriety chastity meeknesse constancy moderation patience and sweet contentation so shall the worke of our righteousnesse bee peace of heart peace of state priuate and publike peace Peace with our selues peace with the world peace with God temporall peace here eternall peace and glory aboue vnto the fruition whereof he who hath ordained vs mercifully bring vs for the sake of him who is the Prince of Peace Iesus Christ the righteous FINIS God the auenger The sonnes of wrath Morall righteousnesse Mat. 11. 28. Micah 6. Rom. 8. 33. Psal 106. 3. Lord of the world Ouer Emperours and Kings Whence but from vs In decrees of faith or precepts of manners He absolues from the oath of Allegeance The like discourse to this ye shall finde in Conrad Schlusselburgius in his preface to his 13th. booke Catal Haeret. Not to bee guilty of ill An ill man a good subiect Leu. 19. 36. Iust balances iust weights