of truth, taught and published in the Church, will fuffer no error there: but you understand this fuffering, of outward and violent power. Do you not remember, that I faid at the beginning, that the carnal Church understands the whole Scriptures carnally? Mr. LOVE.

And now to bear fuch Sermons preached, and Books printed; if it had been at Amfterdam, it had been no marvel: But at London, and at Westminster, &c.

Reply.

Truly, fuch a Sermon as mine, might have been preached at Amfterdam, or any where else where the Gospel hath free paffage: and fuch a Sermon as yours, might have been preached at Rome, or any where elfe, where the precious word of GOD is under restraint, and Ecclesiastical power exalts it felf, both above the power of the word, and the power of the Nation. your Sermon favours as ill to the Faithfull, as mine to the world.

Many other weak, paffionate, inconfiderate, erroneus things, fell from Mr. Love, neither worth the troubling the Reader with, nor my self, and fo they may perish and rot in their own grave (if they will) for they fhall never receive a Refurrecti

on from me.

And now at the clofe of all, I defire the Reader to obferve the difference between our Enemies and our felves, in this great point of Authority and Furifdition, which is this: That we exalt Fefus Chrift alone in the fpiritual Church; and attribute to the Magiftrate, his full power in the world: But they exalt themfelves in Chrifts ftead, in the Church; and fet under their feet, the Magiftrates power in the world. And this is fo evident, that there is fome operation of Satan, more or less, upon him that fees it not.

-Præfens male judicat atas,
Fudicium melius Pofteritatis erit.

WAY

OF TRUE

PEACE and UNITY

In the True CHURCH of

CHRIST,

In all Humility and Bowels of Love Prefented to them.

By WILLIAM DELL,

One of the leaft and unworthieft of the Servants of God, in the Gospel of his dear Son.

Pfalm cxx. 7.

I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Utrum nos Schifmatici fumus an vos, nec ego, nec tu, fed Chriftus interrogetur ut indicet Ecclefiam fuam, Auguft. conter. liter. Petil.

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LONDON:

First Printed in the Year, 1651.

TO THE

HONOURABLE

THE

Commons of ENGLAND,

Affembled in PARLIAMENT.

T is written, that the Kingdoms of the World fhall become the Kingdoms of the Lord, and

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of his Christ: And now when all almoft, that is Great and Honourable, and Noble and Royal, and Wife and Learned, is found against this Counsel and Defign of God, how highly are you Honoured of him, and how Happy are you, that you are yet found for it? You after a manifold Apoftacy and defection of many of your Members, feem yet to remain as Pillars in the Houfe of our God; yet you feem to be, among thofe called and chofen, and faithful ones, that now continue with the Lamb, who is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, in his engagement against, and conqueft over the Ten-Horn'd Beast: And to turn afide from this work, would be, to give up your felves to double ruine, to wit, both from Heaven and Earth. And therefore the Lord make you faithful, that you may do this work for God, and to fulfill his Word; and not for your felves, and to fulfill your own Ends.

And now as you are bufie about the Peace of the Kingdom, to fettle and establish that upon a right and fure Foundation; fo God hath engaged my heart, to meditate the Peace of the Church. And though I have excluded

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excluded your Power from having a hand in this Work, yet I have not, in any measure wronged you, as you fhall perceive, but rather endeavoured to preferve you, from dashing your felves against that Rock, against which, all the ignorant and unwife Rulers and Kingdoms of the world, both have and yet shall dash themselves in pieces. It fhall be your wisdom to be built up, together with the Church, on Chrift; but it would be your confufion, to go about to build the Church on your selves, and your Power; feeing this Building is too weighty for any Foundation, but Chrift himself. Your Power will do well in the Kingdoms of the World, but not in Gods Kingdom, which is Chrifts Inheritance, from the beginning to the end. You shall be happy, to be fubject in it, but none must be Lord or Law-giver here, but Chrift bimfelf. Let not the Devil, who in thefe last times, bath in many places tranflated the Mystery of Iniquity from the Ecclefiaftical Kingdom of the Clergy, into the Temporal Kingdom of the Magiftrate, any longer keep it there; feeing it will be as pernicious in this, as in that for it will be no lefs dangerous an evil, for the Magiftrate to make himself Lord and Law giver in the Church, than for the Pope, or General Councel, in all the Kingdoms called Chriftian, or for the Archbishop, or National Affembly in particular Kingdoms. Men have commonly thought, that to preferve the Godly in worldly peace and profperity, is to preferve the Church; whereas, to preferve them in faith, hope, love, in union and communion with Chrift and the Father, in and through the Spirit, this only is to preferve the Church; and this oft-times, is better done by Chrift, whose work only it is, in affliction, than in profperity. Wherefore do you Look to the care of the State, and truft Chrift with the care of his Church, seeing he is both faithful and able to lave it perfectly. The peace of the Church lies in Chrift only, and no part of it out of him, no not for a moment; and this their peace, Chrift is able to preserve in himself, in the midst of the most cruel and def

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