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3. Christian Religion is all composed of peace; her ways are the ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace, Prov 17.3. Christ framed all his Laws in compliance of this design of peace; peace within, and peace at home, and peace abroad; 1. It holds forth a certain Heavenly peace, and tranquility within;¹ Great peace have they which love thy Law, and nothing shall offend them. But on the contrary; The wicked ⟨p. 194⟩are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt; there is no peace saith my God to the wicked: ²their passions were never yet mortified; and such passions usually range in wicked men as are most contrary, and demand contrary things; the desire of honour cries spend here, but the passion of avarice cries, hold thy hands; lost cries, venture here; but pride saith, no such thing, it may turn to thy dishonour; anger cries, revenge thy self here, but ambition says, it's better to dissemble. And here is fulfilled that of the Psalmist, I have seen violence and strife in the City; the vulgar renders it, I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the self-same City: First, Iniquity, for all the demands of these passions are unjust; And, 2. Contradiction, for one passion cries out against another. But now great peace have they that love thy Law; for by the aid of Christ and his Grace, their passions are in some sort subdued: and they pass on their life most sweetly and calmly, without any perturbations much troubling their Spirits; they have that Peace which passeth all understanding, which the World can neither give nor taste of, as Christ affirmeth.³

3. Christian Religion is all composed of peace; her wayes are the wayes of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace, Prov 17.3. Christ framed all his Laws in complyance of this design of peace; peace within, and peace at home, and peace abroad; 1. It holds forth a certain Heavenly peace, and tranquility within;¹ Great peace have they which love thy Law, and nothing shall offend them. But on the contrary; The wicked