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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Sermons, English -- 17th century. 2005-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-11 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-02 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2006-02 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion 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 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 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 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 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 . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A02591-e110 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 .