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A85985	The blessed peace-maker and Christian reconciler: intended for the healing of all unatural and unchristian divisions, in all relations: according to the purport of that divine oracle, pronounced by the Prince of Peace himself, Matth. 5.9. By Claudius Gilbert, B.D. minister of the Gospel at Limrick.	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?	1658 (1658)	Wing G701; Thomason E939_3; ESTC R202209	119,212	155

peace peace when there is no Peace but sudden destruction like the Dreamer in the Prophet that eats and drinks in fancy but is still empty and wretched Thus many dream themselves into a fools Paradise snorting on the Bed of carnal security till they drop into Hell at unaware 3. There is a dead Peace without sense or smart because without life in such who are Spiritually and judicially dead though they seem to live This was the case of many in Sardis All unregenerate Souls are naturally dead in Sins and Trespasses Divers of them after a temporary flash of profession do apostatize and grow worse then before These are the Trees twice dead plucked up by the root Seared consciences that grow past feeling into all Excess Like the dead Sea once a flourishing soil turned now by divine Vengeance for sin into a stinking puddle that Kils every fish and fowl that come but near it Such like the Ranting Crue have stifled and murdered Conscience by frequent Relapses so that they can commit all iniquity with greediness and without remorse They are dead whilst they live like the wanton Widdow The Peace of a rotten Carrion is their perfection wherein they please themselves till conscience revive to hurry them to their final Execution 4. There is a Diabolical Peace a Combination with Satan and for him in the waies of sin Hell it self hath some kind of Union and Order that Kingdom of Darkness if disordered in it self or divided against it self could not possibly stand There is a Belzebub a Prince of Devils the strong man that keeps all in Peace under his Rule As Satanical spirits do conjure together so are too many wicked Wretches combined with them either directly or collaterally Witches and Sorcerers are become Satans slaves by explicite Compact All wicked Persons are his Instruments though many of them more implicitly Conjunction in sin is a conspiracy though often coloured with specious pretences of good fellowship Many are daily found to do the Devils work in plotting mischief and tempting others to sin The best of their Peace is but conjuration in all sinfull associations Whilst they make a Covenant with Hell and find no trouble in Satans drudgery what Peace can they expect There is no Peace saith my God to the wicked All such Peace is but nominal and aequivocal Our Text excludes all such Secondly There is a good Peace Peace in good which is intended here This is the sweet agreement and harmonious Correspondency of things in conformity to Gods Will their Soveraign Principle Rule and End The Creatures esse and Being is given it in order to its operari and working That working is still to be sutable to their Being according to that Rule which the Being of Beings doth by his pleasure appoint thereto for its proper end Whilst things thus move in their respective Sphere Peace is maintained in a mutual accommodation to each other Man is specially concerned in this Peace and that in a treble respect 1. There is an Eternal Peace Peace with God 2. An Internal Peace Peace in man 3. An External Peace Peace with men 1. Peace with God is made in the Court of Heaven in the Regeneration of Gods Elect when the Soul is first united to Christ by the renewing of the Holy Ghost in the first conversion Then is actual application made effectually of Christs all-sufficient oblation upon conjugal terms whereby Reconciliation between God and Man is actually compleated Thus being justified by faith we have Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have access through faith into the Grace wherein we stand The Fathers eternal Purpose and the Sons virtual Purchase is then and not till then effectually fulfilled by the spirits Operation The Elect themselves are by nature before this gracious change alike Children of wrath and enemies to God even as others The sentence of the Law given to mankind in the first Adam abides in force upon all his natural Posterity and upon Gods Elect with the rest till they become by renewing Grace the seed of Christ the second Adam and thereby brought into a state of Reconciliation His Union to Christ that affords communion with him in this as in all other priviledges Thus God wills a change in them positive and Relative though he changes not his will about them His Electing Love of good Will towards them is an immanent eternall Act of his which makes no actual Change in their state till their nature be changed by his sanctifying Grace that his Love of delight may operate about them being a transient Act. The change is not in God but in the Creature wrought upon by such Acts flowing from God Gods Will is indeed but one Intire Act being God himself but the operations manifestations and effects thereof about the Creatures are various many wayes A Traytor is not in Peace with the Prince till actually pardoned and discharged in a legal and orderly way Christ indeed presented an all-sufficent satisfaction to divine Justice whereby Impetration was made of divine Mercy for all Gods Elect but upon the conditions agreed between them to be seasonably and effectually applyed to those Elect of his Till such conditions be fulfilled in them by his sanctifying Spirit they cannot enjoy the actual benefit thereof This divine Peace is the peculiar of the new creature born again by that singular Grace which forms the new man after Gods Image by a supernatural Birth The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the best of the best Man before this spiritual work is enmity against God neither willing nor able to yield subjection towards Peace and Reconciliation But the Soul once married unto Christ and adopted of the Father through the spirits gracious application is made Partaker of true and lasting Peace the debts being paid crimes forgiven and all sins covered with the Wedding Garment of Christs Ri hteousness imputed to him and by Faith received 2. Internal Peace is Peace of conscience flowing from the former by a seasonable and orderly reflexion The Kingdom of God is first Righteousness then Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost Thus to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace The Conscience duly purified through faith in his blood is orderly pacified This Peace admits of a various and variable latitude according to the various degrees and conditions of Gods children In some its not perceived sensibly of a good while after conversion admitting of Clouds and Eclipses as the light of the Sun in nature through earthly and airy Interpositions The due sense thereof requires a special Irradiation of Christs Spirit shining upon his gracious Image wrought in the soul to make a due Reflexion thereof That Holy Spirit must witness with our spirit that we are the children of God and if Children then Heirs yea coheirs with Christ This requires a rational discourse formed in the soul by divine Logick whereof

made throughly sensible of their guilt and shame How far are the best from an exact performance of this great Duty How unlike are we to this dignifying Property of Gods People How short come we of that peaceable Spirit and Carriage that should te●tifie ou● gracious acquaintance with the Nature Charge and Interest of Christ the great Peace-maker Le ts all be humbled deeply before him at the sight and sence of so much unworthiness Let the conviction of our foolish mistakes and woful miscarriages awaken and shame us Doth the Lord suffer so much in his Cause Credit and Charge through our sinful jars and shall we not mourn Have we been such peevish and perverse Children and not judge our selves Have we so basely slighted such a Father in that which is so dear unto him and shall we not grieve Have we abused our Brethren and Fellow-servants so unworth ly and shall we not express the regret thereof Is not the fault of a child of a near Relation much more provoking then of any stranger Hath not our God used all possible means to teach us manners and press us with all might to Christian Peace-making Are not our wretched distractions much more provoking now to him and to all because of all the great cost and care he hath been at on a better account Have we lost our ingenuity have we forgotten our Duty and Interest so desperately as still to be senceless of our folly and misery herein Hath Satan so far deluded us hath sin prevailed so to the hardening of us that we see not the apparent ruin of all publique and personal Good following close our unnatural divisions our uncivil disorders All our miscarriages reflect on the Lord who will not alwayes bear with our frowardness His dearest people of old were frowned on and chid threatned and smitten very heavily for lesser faults then ours Their renewed Crimes after much indulgence from his fatherly hand forced him to turn them out of doors and disinherit them He bids us all go to his Shiloh where his presence dwelt and learn by the desolations thereof to observe the fruits of disorders and divisions in his Kingdom and Family All his dispensations to them were for Types and Examples to us to shame us all for those many sins wherein we so far exceed them The woful Ruins of so many Churches once so flourishing in each part of the World should prove a powerfull warnning to us all If we be indeed the children of God let it appear by our ingenuous shaming of our selves for our unchristian abusing of him in abusing his Peace his People and our selves so groundlesly and so frequently so sinfully and so wofully Vse 3. This Truth may be improved by way of Discovery Hence may we enquire into our own State and take a Prospect of the Posture of Affairs within and without us Doth this character of God● children dignifie us and others Is it ou● eminent property to be Peace makers Do we act herein in a way becoming the children of God This is a needfull and usefull enquiry for all sorts of persons in this self-deceiving and hypocritical Age so full of mistakes and distempers Bring we the case to the Lords own Test measure it by the line of the Sanctuary Do we act about Peace from him and like him for him and through him as becomes his Children 1. Do we act from God about all the matters of his Peace Is he our Principle and source of all spiritual activeness Is he the Supreme efficient of all good in us and to us Are we born again of his gracious Spirit to make us new creatures that we might walk in newness of Life As we have born the Image of the earthly do we now bear the Image of the heavenly Adam Do we receive from Christ the second Adam the Root and seed of spiritual Life as we received from the first Adam the Spawn and Beginnings of natural Life We naturally grow wild as the timber in the Forest as stones in the Pit and rock Hath the Lord hewen and digged us down by the hand of his Spirit with the tools of his Word and Providence to square and polish us for his spiritual Edifice Hath he translated us from death to life that were naturally dead in sins and trespasses Hath he by his Gospel-salve opened our eyes to turn us from darkness unto light and from the power of Satan to God Hath he poured clean waters upon us that we might be effectually cleansed from all our filthiness and from all our dividing Idols A new heart also hath he given us and a new Spirit hath he put within us Hath he taken away the stony heart out of our flesh and given us a new heart of flesh Hath he put his Spirit within us to cause us to walk in his Statutes that we may keep his Judgements and do them Hath he washed us in the Laver of Regeneration through the renewing of the holy Ghost shed on us abundantly according to his gracious Promises Hath the Lord thus begotten us again unto a lively hope through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead that we might enjoy and promote Peace Have we put off the old man which is corrupt after its deceitfull lusts and put on the new man which af●er God is created in Righteousness and true holiness Have we learned in his school to strip us of self that we may put on Christ for our Garment Have we received his effectual Call to obey it efficaciously in order to his Peace Hath his Spirit convinced us applicatively of sin of Righteousness and of Judgement Hath he brought us into to the wilderness that he might speak to our hearts therein words of Grace and Peace Hath he given himself in giving us his Son upon conjugal terms by his sanctifying Spirit and have we thereby been enabled to surrender up our selves unto him by a lively faith of his own working Do we through faith partake of those gracious Promises which make us Partakers of the Divine Nature to escape the pollutions that are in the world through lust Doth Christ thus dwell in our heart by faith that being grounded and rooted in him we may thence receive out of his fulness Grace for Grace in order to Peace Doth he draw us so powerfully by the inward cords of his Spirits motions and the outward Bands of his Word and Providence as to make us to run after him and follow him fully in all the wayes of Peace Is he the Load-stone that draws our Iron-hearts by Magnetical virtue into all sutable operations Is he the Treasure the Magazin of all our supplies the Ground and foundation of all our desires delights designs and labors about all kind of Peace Do we thus receive and act all from him not from any Creature within or without us to manifest our selves his Children Secondly Do we act like him in

due season order and manner within our respective Relations Thus Gods people are bid to plead with their Mother to contend for the faith to admonish one another with mutual watchfulness c. that they may not be partakers of other mens sins but still keeping the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Christ and his Apostles did so in the Jewish Church though exceedingly corrupt till that ceremonial administration of the Lords gracious Covenant gave way to the Evangelical dispensation thereof 3. The evil that Conscience startles at in the Church is either fundamental or circumstantial as to salvation That evil which destroyes the foundation not holding the Head when obstinately retained after all due convictions renders a Person and Society unfit for Christian Communion deservedly who are to be accordingly dealt with Thus Paul withdrew from the Jews obstinately rejecting Christ and separated the Disciples Thus the reformed Churches did orderly protest against Apostate Rome aad separated from them In this case the Heretical Society is the Schismatick for as in Martyrdom so in Schism it s the cause not the suffering that constitutes it Thus when a rotten member contracts an Heretical Gangrene which makes him fall off or to be cut off from the Church he himself is the Schismatick 4. The circumstantial evil which offends any person in the Church is variously considerable in Doctrine Worship and Discipline according to the weight of that Truth it seems to oppose Some are of far greater moment then others and challenge sutable care and carriage Some circumstantials are Indefinite and indifferent in themselves to be regulated by Christian prudence in every Society and meeting as the gesture of the body length of time spent in the exercise c. where in the general Rules of Order Decency Edification and Expediency are still observable Other Circumstantials are definite and parts of Worship Instituted of the Lord as the keeping of the first day of the week for a Christian Sabbath singing of Psalms solemn Prayer c. which are not indifferent but necessary to be observed according to Scripture Rule He that scruples any thing about such should use the best means of Information private and publike with much humility and sobriety diligence and teachableness If after all he cannot be satisfied he may forbear that particular thing which his conscience cannot meddle with still keeping Communion in the rest This is the Apostles Doctrine as far as we have attained let us walk by the same Rule and mind the same thing if any be otherwise minded the Lord will reveal that unto him also Hast thou faith have it to thy self in such a case that thou maiest give no offence to others 5. If any Christian should find the Church whereof he is a Member growing worse daily and not admitting of any advice help for amendment but obstinately refusing to rectifie what is palpably evil such a man is to be very cautious in that case that in desiring leave to depart to some other society where he may serve God with purity and freedom that all proceedings therein may appear to flow from cordiall Love to Christ to his Ordinances and people with all due respects to those also from whom he departs still owning what ever appears of good in them with hearty grief for what is amiss that he may avoid the stigmatical Brand of a schismatick in the performance of his duty 6. Schism from the Church is either universal or particular Universal when Persons divide from all Christian Societies and People that do not own their particular way Such was the separation of the Donatists besides that of the Arrians Meletians Acesians Circumcellians and many others divers whereof were also heretical Such is the Schism of the Romish Church now apostatized from the very foundations of Christianity which they verbally profess but collaterally and effectively destroy and renounce by their Antichristian additions and Detractions Traditions and Corruptions A particular Schism is a sinfull division from some particular Church whereto a Christian had his Relation or from some Member or Members thereof The former is a Schism from the Body this later in the Body a sad instance whereof appeared in the Church at Corinth which Paul sharply reproves and prescribes a fit cure unto again and again The grudgings and Rudiments of this sad distemper bewrayed themselves by divers Symptoms also in most of the Christian Churches even in Apostolical daies and the succeeding Primitive Times witness the many cautions and hints given in their Epistles and the Relations of Ecclesiastical Records The sad experiences of the Reformed Churches in former and later Seasons especially in these Nations afford numerous Instances thereof sufficiently deplored Vse 2. This speaks conviction to all persons estranged from Peace Is Peace so blessed a thing then should it not sharply reprove multitudes of men As 1. The Ignorant that know it not and will not learn This is the dreadfull brand of the children of wrath the way of Peace they have not known An evil Peace they are acquainted with but the Peace of God they are strangers to Their Peace in sin is wofull presumption which feeds them with deceitfull hopes Quick-sighted they may be in carnal things but they are quiet blind in spiritual matters Christ wept sorely upon such a people wishing they had known the things of their Peace when alas they were hid from their eyes 2. The Negligent that mind it not but are pleasing themselves on the bed of carnal security laying their head on the devils cushion Such Laish like sleep securely in their sluggish course till they awake in the midst of Hellish flames Like Moab and Edom they settle on their lees till Divine wrath do sweep them away Their sleepy Peace feeds them with specious dreams of pleasure profit and preferment till they be rowzed up by the Messenger of Eternity They embrace a cloud in stead of Juno they are of Gallios spirit not caring for the things of their Peace Their sleepy disease is so much the sadder because so sensless 3. The scornfull that own it not but reject and disdain it such can make a Jea● of war and of Peace and turn all things of the greatest weight into a fond jest Such fools make a mock at Sin and at Peace too Their Pregnancy of Parts serves them for a Racket to toss the Ball of a wanton witt from one to another like the mad fellow that throws fire-brands in his jovial mode saying still am not I in sport such as thus abuse Gods Peace in jest are like to go to Hell in earnest far enough from Peace This is the high road to Satans Kingdom wherein many gallop in a full career The seat of the scornfull is the highest degree of advancement in the devils University whereto many ungodly sinners attain per saltum by a trick of youthfull wit