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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45558	The olive-branch presented to the native citizens of London in a sermon preached at S. Paul's Church, May 27, being the day of their yearly feast / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing H737; ESTC R17063	35,655	50

for us will afford us no comfort unless thou also ordain peace for us More than this 3. Whatsoever is called good may be predicated of peace it is a little word and spell'd with a few letters but within these few letters is to be found all good the Hebrew word signifieth both perfection and peace intimating that there is no good wanting where peace is The Moralists distribution of bonum is into honestum jucundum utile good is whatsoever is honest or pleasant or profitable and in all these respect peace is good 1. Peace is honest as being that which results from the dictates of the divine law and right reason Peace is the daughter of truth the effect of righteousness and the fruit of the Spirit indeed this is not true of all kind of peace {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith the Greek Father There is as a commendable dissention so an execrable union such was that of Herod and Pilat against Christ such are all combinations for the opposing of good or the accomplishing evil but otherwise a friendly agreement with one another in all things that are not absolutely sinfull is that which is most just and honest 2. Peace is pleasant {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith the Greek Father and to the same purpose the Latin Oratour nomen pacis dulce res ipsa salutaris both the name and the thing is sweet S. Paul joyneth peace and joy together to intimate that peace is joyfull Oh how good and pleasant a thing it is So the Psalmist that which is good and not pleasant may be tedious that which is pleasant but not good is vicious but peace and chiefly civil peace is both good that is honest and pleasant 3. Peace is profitable in the forementioned Psalm it is compared to Aarons oyntment and Hermons dew that for pleasure and this for profit it is called by S. Chrysostome {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a mother of good things This Queen of Peace hath a train of blessings like so many handmaids to attend upon her in peace the merchant traffiqueth securely the husbandman reapeth joyfully the Citizen tradeth cheerfully all men manage their affaires prosperously in peace our garners are replenished with store our valleys with corn our hills with sheep our shops with wares the time will not give me leave to set before you all the flowers which grow in the garden of peace S. Paul joyneth peace and holiness together and what in another place he saith of the latter I may after a sort apply to the former it is profitable for all things Loe what a blessed Trinity here is in Unity vertue pleasure profit all as so many jewels in this one ring of peace and surely peace being so good may justly be desirable It is the Philosophers definition of good {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} it is that which all desire the Poet saith no less of peace Pacem te poscimus omnes it is that we are all in love with St. Austin hath a large discourse to this purpose and among other things observeth that even they who disturbe cannot be said altogether to hate peace non ut sit pax nolint sed ut ea sit quā velint since the reason of all war contention is not that men would have no peace at all but because they would have such a peace as they like But though peace is in some sense the vote of all yet I would to God there were not just cause of taking up Gregory Nazianzens complaint {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Oh lovely peace a good which art praysed of all and yet preserevd by few whilest the tares of anger wrath envie malice contention quarrelling evil-speaking railing slandering and sighting grow up every where and which is the more sad even among them who professe the Gospel of peace and to be subjects of the Prince of peace peace finds few friends Well my brethren what ever others do I hope we who have experienced the evil of war will say of peace as Abraham of Sarah when among the swarthy Egyptians Now I know that thou art a fair woman to look on now we know that thou art good and worthy to be valued above any earthly blessing whatsoever The truth is next to the peace of our conscience which must be preferred before all there is nothing we should more highly prize then peace with all men and especially with one another since we cannot be friends to the good if we be enemies to the peace of the place where we live So much the Psalmist implyeth in these parallel words peace good And if you would know how this peace which is so good may be attained and maintained go on to a View of the acts here mentioned as done by David in order to the peace and good of Jerusalem namely saying and seeking the former whereof is a word of devotion and the latter a word of action Of each a word 1. That which in the former verse he resolveth upon is to say Peace be within thee There is loquela cordis oris a saying in the heart and a saying with the tongue one word in the Hebrew signifieth both meditari and loqui to meditate and to utter indeed the tongue is but the interpreter the heart is the enditer the heart is the minting-place of words where they are first coined and the tongue is as it were the hearts echo to resound outwardly what is first spoken inwardly Both these waies no doubt did David say peace he said it within his heart affectionately desiring it he said it with his mouth openly testifying that desire Thus must it be with us 1. Our will must say peace as that is not done which the heart doth not so neither is that said which the heart speaketh not Too many there are who have peace in their mouths and war in their hearts whose words are smoother then butter softer then oyle but the thoughts and desires of their hearts are bitter as gall and sharpe as swords but far be such odious dissimulation from David and every good man since as the seeming Saint is the most wicked so the pretending friend is the worst enemy 2. Our tongues must say peace the truth is as Salomon saith life and death so I may say war and peace are in the power of the tongue strifes which end in blowes begin with words St. James saith of the tongue it is a fire this is most true of the malicious tongue it is set on fire of hell and puts all in a combustion But whilest turbulent spirits have fire in their mouth let us have water in ours whilest others curse let us blesse whilest they bluster with tempestuous language let ours be the still smooth voice and whilest the wretched Edomites say of Jerusalem raze it