Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mitted many such wars to desolate the earth. But his law inculcates peace?to us, in this favoured, though unworthy, land, he has vouchsafed that inestimably precious boon?often, after bloody battle, has this nation been called to thank him for a safe and honourable peace? and when his religion shall pervade the world, and its spirit shall be cherished by mankind, men
shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks. As for social peace between man and man, and among the members of the Church of God ?his word prescribes it, and his Spirit disposes his faithful followers and friends to seek it. It is inculcated in such texts as these?texts which are often sadly overlooked or disobeyed, but involving rules and principles which true piety must needs enforce on the human conscience, which God’s converting and sanctifying grace has led many to observe in the conduct of their lives, and which, by the outpouring of his Holy Spirit, will yet be far more generally and far more effectually learned? Seek peace and pursue it;
God hath called us to peace;
Let us follow after the things that make for peace;
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace;
Follow peace with all men;
The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace;
The wisdom that is from above is … peaceable;
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. And it seems to be specially in reference to this social peace?which God’s law prescribes and his Spirit produces? that He is called
the God of peace in that practical and comprehensive text? Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 1 II. In the text, the sacred writer calls Chris…
