Eirenopolis

Heaven is a high City, yet hath but a low Gate.¹ Celsa patria, via humilis. Tolle super biam, quod habes meum est▪ tolle inuidiam, quod habe• tuum est. Take away pride, and that which thou hast is mine: take away envy, and that which I have is thine. Pride and envy are too uncivil for a peaceable city: the one cannot endure a vicine prosperity, nor the other a superior ⟨p. 81⟩eminency. All men must be poor to please the one, and all must be base to content the other. Peace is humble, pride quite over-looks her. The Philosopher might have seen the stars in the water, he could not see the water in the stars, when he stumbled into the ditch. Men may behold glory in humility, they shall never find peace in ambition. The safest way to keep fire, is to take it up in embers: the best means to preserve peace, is in humbleness. The tall ⟨p. 82⟩Cedars feel the fury of tempests; which blow over the humble shrubs in the low valleys. There was no rule with Paul at first; raising tumults, speeding Commissions, breathing out slaughters against poor Christians. But when Christ had thundered him from his horse, broken his wild spirit to humility, then he was fit for peace. God, that often effectuates his own will by contraries, makes trouble the preparation for peace: as a father corrects his unruly children ⟨p. 83⟩that they may be quiet. Let us examine our own experience: when the Lord hath soundly scourged us, we go from under his fingers as tame as lambs: farewell strife, all our care is to find rest and peace in Jesus Christ.

Heauen is a high Citie, yet hath but a low Gate.¹ Celsa patria, via humilis. Tolle super biam, quod habes meum est▪ tolle inuidiam, quod habe• tuum est. Take away pride, and that which thou hast is mine: take away enuie, and that which I haue is thine. Pride and enuy are too vnciuill for a peaceable citie: the one cannot endure a vicine prosperity, nor the other a superior