RIght Honourable , Right Reuerend , Beloued and Christian Brethren ; we are heere assembled a mixt and great assembly of two great Kingdomes ; for which cause I haue taken a text of congratulation : and we are met among other reasons ( as I coniecture ) to giue thankes that wee may thus meet , to reioyce in God , and to be mutually merry , and for that cause I haue chosen a text out of a Psalme ; yea , I haue chosen a text out of a Psalme , which ( as Austin saith ) is notus & nominatus , a Psalme well knowen to euery man , and much spoken of in euery mouth ; and he saith of the text , that it is sonus ita dulcis , so sweet a sound , as many which knew not the Psalter , yet could sing the verse , & diuers which could not reade , yet had it by rote , Ecce quam bonum &c. Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together . The Psalme was penned by Dauid , and at that time ( as it is thought , when after long warre betwixt the two houses of Saul and Dauid , some of the Tribes taking one part , and some another , they all came in at last , and swore fealty to Dauid , and made him King ; the sweet sense whereof makes him to write this Psalme , and to breake out into this exclamation , Behold how good and pleasant it is , &c. And it is as if he had sayd , Compare the time present with the time past , and see what a change is made , while you had two Kings , you had them as two swords reuelling in the bowels of the Kingdomes , but now God hath set an vnion in your diuisions , & quietnesse in your borders , yea , hee hath stampt vnity vpon your coyne , Faciam eos in gentem vnam , all to haue one King , & all to make as it were one Kingdome ; while you were diuided into parts , one part was still a prey to another , and as Abner spake to Ioab , the sword of ech deuoured other : but now God hath broken your swords into mattocks , and your speares into sithes : Fighting is now turned to feasting , and force of armes to mutuall embracing , so as now you may safely visit the Coasts , and Countries , and Townes , and Cities , and Churches , and Vniuersities , and Colledges each of other , Ecce quam bonum , Behold how good and pleasant this is .

The maine subiect of the text is Peace ; not the peace betwixt a man and his owne conscience , which Matth. 11. is called Rest to your soules : nor yet the peace betwixt God & man , wher of Rom. 5. 1. Being iustified by faith we haue peace toward God : but it is the peace betwixt brethren , that is , betwixt man and man ; concerning which we may in the text obserue these fiue things . First , it is described by a phrase of dwelling together : Secondly , it is limited , only among brethren . Thirdly , it is commended to be good and to be pleasant . Fourthly , it is admired , How good and How pleasant . Fiftly , it is poynted at , Behold how good , and Behold how pleasant : of all which by your patience and Gods assistance , I will speake in order .

And first of the first ; The peace heere mentioned is stiled a dwelling , and a dwelling together ; and first a dwelling , for peace is as a man settled and quiet in his owne house , which followes not vaine pomp & pride , nor yet the tumults and restlesse troubles , nor tossing and tumbling vp and downe the world , but peace saith as God saith in the Psalme next before , Hic requies mea , heere will I dwell . But they to whom there is no peace , they are like the raging sea which cannot rest , Esay 57. and Prou. 4. they cannot sleepe vnlesse they haue done euill ; and no maruell ; for Sathan their head is a ranger , he dwels no where , but euery where , Hee compasseth the earth , and walketh in it Iob 1 , and 1 Pet. 5. He walketh vp and downe like a roaring Lyon , seeking whom he may deuoure : The tyrants of the earth which are his left hand , they dwell or rest no where , but run out to the North and South , and East and West , and extend their Dominions ouer the whole earth . Dan. 8. Againe , Pharisies & false Prophets , which are his right hand , they compasse sea & land to make a man of their profession . yet their diligence makes no warrant for their ill endeauours ; It is sayd of the harlot Prou. 7. that her feet cannot abide in her house , but now she is without , and now in the streets , and lieth in waite at euery corner . The mysticall propagation of schisme and seducing heresie : for so doe the Priests , but especially the restles Iesuites , they are no where settled , but wander vp and downe like Apostles , and though S. Paul sayd , that God had set foorth them the last Apostles . 1 Cor. 4. yet they are Apostles later then the last , and because God will not send them out , they therfore send out themselues , and runne to the Indies East and West , to Mexico and Peru , to the Moluccoes , and to the great Magueere , and if we may beleeue their owne reports , they haue been in the remote and mighty kingdome of China , they haue beene at all Coasts and Capes , and seas and wayes , only the way of peace they haue not knowen . Againe , peace is not a dwelling onely , but a dwelling together ? together ? how ! not simul in crimine , like Simeon and Leui , brethren in iniquity , combined in sinne together : nor simul in certamine , as Ephraim and Manasses ; or as of late two popish prelates in England for meere precedency , & in a Church , flatly by the eares together ; but together is heere cohabiting together , in a city , in a house , in a Church together , and sometime as Acts 1. 13. in a chamber together : and which is the moralitie of all this , of one heart and soule together . Acts 4. 32. And indeede wee see in nature , that the peaceable and harmlesse creatures do flocke together like doues , and folde together like sheepe : but wolues , and lyons , and beares , which lie in wait for blood , they liue in the wildernesse and apart , and owles come out in the night and apart , and make a noyse when all the rest of the birds are asleepe , but they are neither good intympano , nor in choro , they sing not in consort , and when they sing alone , it is the very horror of musique ; and so it is obserued among men ; if a man bee too much retired , and solitary , and melancholly , & hang downe his head like Cain , & like Shemaiah become a Recluse and shut vp himselfe , euerie man straight will vse the prouerb vpon such an one , Omnis solitarius aut Deus aut Daemon , such a man may bee a Saint , and hee may as well bee a Diuell ; It was the aduantage which Christ had of Iohn the Baptist , that he liued in cities & townes , and did eat and drinke , and was sociable , so as he baptized , and all men came to him : Ioh. 3. but Iohn Baptist liued in the wildernesse austerely and sourely , and came neither eating nor drinking , so as they which knew not the mysterie of it , said plainely , that Iohn had a Diuell , Matth. 11. And we see for the most part that these close and sullen spirits , looke whatsoeuer way they take , they become by their singularitie hurtfull ; if they haue to do in the state , they become proud and contentions , and breed factions there : if they haue to doe in learning , they proue dogmaticall , full of paradoxes and of opinions there ; but if in the Church , they are not onely schismaticall , but turbulent and pragmaticall , and with Corah , Dathan and Abiram , ready to make riot , if all be not to their will ; oh how peaceable had it been for the Church , how strong for the field , and how happy for the whole world , if such Church-men had beene made souldiers ; but euery man if he be a Saint is of the Communion of Saints , and they which be truely brethren , doe dwell , and liue , and die together ; The word in the text importeth more , euen to dwell together in vnity , or in one . Now as Bernard saith , there bee many wayes of one , there is vnitas collectiua , as when many stones make one heape , & there is vnitas constitutiua , as when many members make one body , and there is vnitas coniugatiua , as when man and woman make one flesh , and there is vnitas natiua , as when flesh and spirit make vp one man , with diuers other kindes ; but why should I exceede in diuision pretending to preach peace ? but of all the rest , why should I so infinitely diuide that which the holy Ghost contracteth into one ? therfore I finde this multiplicity reduced into two heads , either Habitare in vnum , subiectiuely into one which is God , or Habitare in vno , for things of lesse moment , yet ( if it be possible ) to agree in one ; Into God , one God , one faith we are necessarily grafted as into a stocke , without which there is no peace , no religion , no loue , no life ; and for other things , though not so necessarie , yet Saint Paul exhorts to be of one minde , and one iudgement , Philip. 2. Therefore if it be possible , let vs Habitare in vno , all to follow one way , one gouernment , one discipline : but howsoeuer it fall , let vs Habitare in vnum , still to hold our grounds , one Gospell , one Faith , one God : that is , if we can , let vs all agree in an vniformitie , but if not so , yet let vs stil hold the grounds of vnitie : yea , and though we cannot Habitare in vno ; that is , to keepe all one fashion , yet because we are all of one faith , to hold euen our differences in peace , and to doe nothing through contention .

The limiting of peace is onely among brethren ; which because it is a word of great equiuocation , the distinguishing of the kindes of brethren , will sort out the diuers kindes of peace ; therefore first there bee brethren by creation , and so we be all , as we be all the sonnes of one God ; for as it is Malach. 2 : haue we not all one father ! hath not one God made vs all ? and thus wee are all tied to peace , so farre as peace is taken for a meere cessation from warre , for to that purpose speaketh Saint Paul , Rom. 12. If it be possible and as much as in you lieth haue peace with all men ; yea , there is a kinde of peace to be maintained euen with Turkes , and Infidels , and wee haue no reason to inuade the possessions of Infidels , only for being Infidels , but rather to liue brotherly and humanely by them , because they bee men : Why , but did not the Israelites inuade the land of Canaan ? it is true , they did so ; yet they had for so doing a speciall command from God : but what reason had Dauid to make warre vpon the Ammonites ? 2. Sam. 12. he had for his warrant a prouocation from themselues , 2. Sam. 10. and in such cases with such brethren it is lawfull to breake the peace , but otherwise as Austin saith , Cùm tu Christianus Paganum spolias &c. When thou a Christian dost rob and spoile a Pagan , thou robbest God of a conuert , & as much as in thee lieth , thou diuertest a Pagan from being a Christian . Secondly , there be brethren by bloud , either descended all immediately of one father , as Iacobs sons Gen. 42. We be 12. brethren , the sonnes of one father , or else , mediately descended of the same Ancestors , euen as Iames and Iohn , though but the kins-men of Christ , yet called Math. 13. the brethren of Christ . And by this brotherhood we are tied to that 2. Pet. 1. called brotherly kindnesse : and it was the reason whereby Abraham perswaded Lot to peace , Gen. 13. Let there be no strife between thee & me , for thou and I are brethren . For what shall perswade vs to liue peaceably in the world , if not this , that wee are all descended of one wombe , and if such contend in the world , what can they doe more , vnlesse with Iacob and Esau , they returne into the wombe , & spurne , and kicke , and fight it out there . Thirdly , they are said to be brethren who are all of one Countrey , Countrey-men . In which sense God speaketh , Deut. 23. To a Stranger thou maist lend on vsury , but not vnto thy brother , that is , vnto thy fellow Israelite : now the vnion of such brethren is the strength of the kingdome , but when such fall off , it is a kingdome diuided , and cannot stand . In the Scisme betwixt Ephraim and Gilead there fell in one fielde two and forty thousand , Iudg. 12. and the falling away of the ten Tribes from the two , was occasionally the ruine of both the kingdomes ; and hee that readeth our Chronicles , shall finde that we English and Scots haue spent more bloud in domesticall broiles , then when one of vs in time of hostilitie opposed an other , but now it is peace here , and peace at home , and when we English shall returne home , and call to minde how kindly our Scottish brethren haue vsed vs here , we cannot but acknowledge their kindnesse , and owne them as brethren , yea if nationall brotherhood could not , yet very shame shall driue vs now to loue both them & our selues more mutually at home . Fourthly , they are said to be brethren who are al of one profession , & in that sense , Kings who vnder God diuide the earth , do call each other brethren ; yea euen when the two kings had newly fought a bloudy field , the King of Israel asked concerning the King of Aram , Is my brother yet aliue ? 1 King . 20. And there is nothing more needfull either for Church or common-wealth , then that Kings do liue peacably , and as brethren ; for when it is otherwise , Delirant Reges , plectuntur Achiui : great and mightie men runne a madding , and the poore Peasant must pay for it , & while Benhadad sitteth quaffing in his tent , his Captaine and his Souldiers fall by thousands in the fielde ; and therefore Kings by name must so be praied for , as the people may liue honestly and quietly vnder them , 1. Tim. 2. but he that soweth sedition between kings , or hinders their iust peace when it is intended , he is a fire-brand betweene two kingdomes , the fatherlesse and widowes shall curse him , the bloud of the massacred ( like the bloud of Abell ) shall cry against him , the God of peace shall confound him , and the Diuell whom hee serueth , in this shall pay him his wages . Againe as Kings , so the Apostles for their like profession did call each other brethren , for so did Peter cal Paul his beloued brother , 2. Pet. 3. and Austin saith that this text bred Monasteries , and brought the Monkes and Fryers together ; but sure he meaneth the old Monkes , and the auncient Fryers , for the later breede come not so high as from the Psalmes , but they may rather seeke themselues , where Saint Paul vnluckily found himselfe , Inter falsos fratres , 2. Cor. 11. and as the Apostles , so we their successors for vnitie of affection and consent of iudgement , ought all to bee as brethren ; yet not as brethren in equality , for the King and his subiects by the mouth of God are all called brethren , Deut. 17. to teach the King to thinke of his subiects , as of brethren , & yet he were a proud subiect that should so equalize himselfe , as out of that text to call the King brother , so brotherhood in the Church concludes no parity of Church functions ; yea the peace heere mentioned is not well maintained in a parity , for see in the Psalme the propagation of peace , and how it runnes , It beginneth at the head , it falleth downe by the beard , and so to the skirts of the cloathing ; It beginneth at the head first , which is the high Priest , the figure of Christ , it goeth downe by the beard , the mouth of the Minister , and so downe to the skirts , euen to the lowest of the people , and how shall the people be annointed with peace , when Arons beard is defiled with sedition , or how shall we build vp the people in peace , when our selues like the vale of the Temple are rent in sunder ? yea what ruine and confusion shall not follow the rupture and disioynting of the Ecclesiasticall body ? Eusebius saith that before the great and fearefull persecution vnder Dioclesian there was euen in the Church-men themselues a prouoking of God vnto it , for they were all one deadly set against an other , Episcopi in Episcopos , & Pastores repulsa pietatis norma &c. both Byshops , Priests , and people were all fiered & enflamed one against another , & then came Dioclesian , as a fire-brand cast vp out of hell to burne and consume them all : but let peace begin at the Prelates and Preists of God , and then no doubt , but the lowest of the people shall bee annoynted with it . Fiftly & lastly , they are called brethren who be all of one religion ; and in that sense euen Paul , though a Iew and borne at Tarsus in Cilicia , yet calleth the Romans brethren ; I beseech you brethren by the mercies of Christ , &c. Rom. 12. and there is no peace like this , yea there is no peace without this : for let a man not bee at peace with God , and hee is no brother to vs , there is no dwelling with him : and that befalleth two wayes , either when men faile in fundamentall poynts of faith , or when they stray notoriously in wickednesse of life . If any man bring not this doctrine , bid him not God speed ( saith S. Iohn ) for what comfort is in that peace which is entertained with an Infidell , an Atheist , and Heretique , or an obstinate Papist , with whom a man may eat and drink , but not at the holy table ; he may be merry with him , but not sing Psalmes with him ; he may talke with him , but he cannot pray with him ; and hee may walke with him but they must part at the Church dore , yea there is no peace with such , but when wee make peace with them , wee breake peace with God , for all peace and loue is founded first in religion , and in God , and if we agree not first in religion , all other agreement is horrible in the eyes of God . Again , though a man professe the same faith , yet if he liue a wicked life , there is no dwelling or liuing with him . If any that is called a brother be a fornicator , or a drunkard , or a rayler , with such an one eat not . 1 Cor. 5. with such an one eat not , that is , conuerse not ; and why ? first because it is vncomfortable , for woe is me ( saith Dauid ) that I dwell in Meshech , &c. Psal. 120. Secondly , it is not sutable , for righteousnes & peace haue kissed , but what fellowship hath light with darknesse ? Thirdly , it is not safe for infection , for Commisti sunt inter gentes , & dedicerunt opera eorum , saith the Psalmist , euen Gods owne people were mingled with the Heathen , and learned their workes , and if we sleepe with dogges , what maruell is it , if we rise with fleas ? yea , as the coldest iron comes red hot out of the fire , so the best natures are corrupted by ill company . Lastly , it is not safe for feare of confusion , for they which dwell in Babylon shall be partakers of her plagues . Reuel. 18. euen as the marriners in the ship with Ionas , ( though cleere of the sinne ) yet had their part in the storme .

Now for the commendation of peace , it is first reported good and then pleasant : First good , quia omnia fundantur in bono , good is the ground of euery thing ; and it is good first as Tobit commended Raphael , to be of a good stocke : so Peace hath God to her father , who seuen times in the Gospell is stiled , The God of Peace : Againe , peace is good , as Dauid said of Ahimaaz : a good man and bringeth good tidings , So Pax in terris , is the best newes that euer came into the world . Luc. 3. Againe , peace is farre fetcht , for it came from heauen ; and it is deere bought , euen by the blood Christ ; and if it be so , that is , if farre fetcht and deere bought , yee know for whom it is good then ; it shall then befit the greatest Ladies , rather with Pilats wife , to perswade their husbands to peace , then with Iobs wife and Iezabel , to make them fall out with God and man : Againe , peace is good by diuine resemblance , for as God is in persons three , and in substance one , euen so doth Christ pray for the Church , that according to that pattern it may be one . Io. 17. againe , peace is good by naturall comparison , for all other creatures are borne with a kinde of armour into the world , either hornes to gore , teeth to bite , or nailes to rend and teare , but man ( as Iob saith ) is borne naked into the world , to shew a peaceable creature borne into it : Thus God sent peace , heauen bred it , the Angels brought it , Christ Iesus purchased it , when hee died he bequeathed it , and hee died to make it : this must needes bee good : But all these praises are externall : peace is good in it selfe , and In sensu morali , It is good , because it maketh good ; for first it buildeth vs into the Church , yea it buildeth the very Church ; Dauid the souldier might not build the Temple . 1 Chron. 28. 3. but Salomon the peaceable ; and Scotland hath now felt , that they which write Beati pacifici , haue not been the worst friends and builders of their Church ; and when Salomon built the Temple , there was neither hammer , nor axe , nor iron to bee heard in it , while it was a building . 1 King . 6. The Pharisies and Sadduces were not yet come with their hammers to deface and peruert the Law , nor Arrius with his axe to cut off the God-head of Christ , nor were there either Marcionists , Manichees , or Nestorians as yet , to make a a noyse in the Church ; but all was peace : & as the Temple was built vp in peace , so is euery Christian engrafted into the Church in peace , and when wee are once in , it is meerely peace , that holds vs in , for the vnity of the spirit is kept in the bond of peace . Ephes. 4 and what good can we doe , while wee are not in peace ? we come to Church and cannot heare well : for if yee loue on another , then are yee verily my Disciples , saith Christ , Ioh. 13. but not else . Againe , we pray worse , if we be not in peace , for we pray for forgiuenes with a stop ; we say , Forgiue vs our trespasses , but dare goe no farther : and so we make a full point , where Christ made but a comma : but without peace we communicate at the holy table worst of all , for we eat and drink at it euen to our owne damnation . but the peaceable man is free from all this , hee heareth profitably , he receiueth comfortably , & he prayeth deuoutly , euen for his enemies and persecutours , for so did Stephen euen when the stones and the bloud ranne downe by his eares . Acts 7. oh see and behold how good peace is . And as there is no Church , so no Common-wealth without peace , for by peace men multiply into families , family fill whole Countreyes , and Countreyes build vp Kingdomes , but warre kils vp all : for where in peace the sonnes commonly bury their fathers , the fathers in warre oft bury their sonnes ; yea , war kils vp both Lawes and Iustice : When Antigonus entred Asia with a strong and mighty army , one salutes him at his entrance with an eloquent oration in praise of Iustice , but Antigonus tolde him , he was a foole to speake of Iustice to a King with a drawne sword in his hand ; yea , warre and contention kill vp euen conscience it selfe ; for how many bee there , who while they bee not stirred , liue like Saints and Angels , but being once heated , they offend God and man , and fall to plots and fowle practises , and become foxes and lyons in warre , who were lambs in peace ; euen as Dauid , who had hee not smelt too much of the sword , could neuer haue conspired against Vriah as he did : but that and other things , did cleane put him by the building of the Temple ; yea , warre killeth euen humanity it selfe , and taketh from many all sense of blood and cruelty : for was it not a strange speech of Abner to Ioab , Let the yoong men arise and play : 2 Sam. 2. and what was their play ? they went out twelue to twelue , and fought so long that all fell down dead : but it was a cruell heart which thought killing but a play , and it was a miserable play where all were losers : This was nought , but peace is good .

Yea , peace is not good onely , but pleasant too : now good and pleasant to concurre is rare , for many things are pleasant which are not good , euen as Iob 20. wickednesse was sweet in his mouth : againe , many things are good which are not pleasant , yea , few things which are good are pleasant : In medicines the best are bitter still , and affliction , which Dauid said was good , Psal. 119. yet Hebr. 12. is vnpleasant for the time , and though it bee more blessed and better to giue then to take , Acts 20. yet Lawyers and all trades can tell , it is much more pleasant to take then to giue : but good and pleasant doe both meet heere : Now of pleasure , the neerest Iudge to vs is naturall sense , but peace is pleasant , and delightfull to all the senses ; As first and for example to the smell , for which in this Psalme it is compared to a precious oyntment , but that which smelleth sweete , euery man draweth neerer to it , euen as Cant. 1. Because of the sauor of thy good ointments , we wil run after thee . So peace hath an attractiue power , for though men naturally loue their owne Countrey best , yet euery man liketh best to liue and dwell where it is peace ; Izaak left Gerar when they stroue with him , and went to Sitnah for peace , and when they stroue with him there , he went to Rehoboth and Beersheba for peace . Gen. 26. and England can tell , and so I think can Scotland too , what a conflux of French and Dutch , and other strangers hath beene to vs sometime for the shadow of our peace , euen for that peace which our friends haue admired , our enemies enuied , & Sathan hath often pusht at , but God hath so enlarged , as we are become like Nebuchadnezzars tree , a shade and refuge for all the beasts and fowles of the field . Secondly , as peace is pleasant in sent so in sight too ; Dauid when hee wrote this was not ratling in harnesse , nor in the horrid aspect of a souldier , for the garrisons were all dissolued , and the wars now done , but Dauid now was turned reueller , and with a troope of gallants , thirty thousand pickt and chosen men , he marcheth before the arke , and singeth , and plaieth , and danceth , and like a Priest putteth on a linnen Ephod . 2 Sam. 6. oh it was a glorious sight , and the triumph of their new atchieued peace , onely Michol scoffed at it , as many Schismitiques and ill-affected men do now , to see the ornaments and attires of the Church in the time of her peace ; for when the Church came out of Aegypt ( whatsoeuer shee wore before and in the daies of her bondage ) yet then being freed and settled , God would haue her put on silke and scarlet , and fine twined linnen . Exod. 28. and what if Elias and Iohn Baptist liuing in the wildernesse and lamenting the times , went vp and downe in haire-cloth , and girt with lether girdles , must we now do it in the daies of our peace ? no : but as Salomon was Christ , and Salomons house the Church of Christ in figure , so are wee in verity the seruants of that Salomon , and of that Christ , whose sitting , and order , and attire ( though Michol scoffed at ) yet a wiser woman , the Queene of Sheba admired ; 1 King . 10 ▪ and wee , wee I say ( for I keepe not others vine , nor meddle with other Churches ) but wee of the Church of England do serue and minister to God in white , & yet we neither reuiue the dead rites of the Iewes , nor temporize with the popish Churches , but we weare white by the Text , partly to signifie the purenesse and integrity which should be , as Reu. 19. 8 and partly to giue thankes to God , and to testifie our reioycing for the peace of the Church , which is , according to that which is written Eccles. 9. 8. Thirdly , peace is pleasant to the eares too ; for define peace , and it is but harmony , and the best harmony is of high and low , and base and meane , &c. Dauid sayd Psal. 101. Hee would sing of mercy and iudgment . A strang kinde of skill to put mercy & iudgement both i● a song , but it was in musike , & Dauid was the sweet singer of Israel . 2 Sam. 23. and the best Musician that euer was in the world ; and as Musique is nothing else but harmony or agreement of disagreeing parts , so is peace . Peace in the body is a due temperature of contrary humours , peace in the minde is a concurrence of affection with reason , peace in the man is a body subdued to the soule ; peace among men is when the superiours gouerne iustly , when inferiours obey willingly , and equals loue mutually , & peace in the Church is , when there is one God , one faith , one heart : when they whom God hath placed aboue , are obeyed as Bishops , and they beneath are respected as brethren ; when one plants , and another waters ; when one preacheth a truth , and another comes and confirmes it , this is harmony , and this is peace : but Heretiques and Schismatiques still sing out of tune . Fourthly , peace is pleasant to the feeling too , that is , it is profitable , for which in this Psalme it is compared to the deaw of Hermon , which made the mountaines fruitfull . But warre ( as one compares it ) is like the Basiliske , which scorcheth and poysoneth the very grasse , and the ground whereon he goeth , so warre depopulates and destroyes all ; we neede not seeke farre for witnesse ; witnesse in our Scottish and English borders , the woods and forrests wasted , the fields yet vntilled , the townes yet vnbuilt , and for townes and houses meere kennels for dogs , shrowdes fit for beasts , but farre vnfit for men , and yet we see in our trauels no great superfluity of beasts neither , onely they were beasts which made this desolation , and whosoeuer were captaines and souldiers , the Diuell on both sides was leader of the field : Nay , let it be but a suit in Law , and it is wonderfull to see how a man wasteth by it ; one Lawyer must bee feed , Ne noceat , that hee doe no hurt , and another takes a fee , and doth in truth a very little good ; and money runnes while all be run out , and the fees of the suit exceede many times the benefit of the sentence , and many a man becomes poore at the victory , who had beene rich , if hee had forborne the combate , but in peace men plant and build , and sow , and reape , and grow exceeding rich , and as in the peaceable daies of Salomon , Euery man sits vnder his vine and his fig-tree , and there is none to make afraid . Fiftly and lastly , peace is pleasant to the taste too : I speake it in the sense of Dauid . Psal . 34. O taste and see how gracious the Lord is , the taste and relish of a good conscience ; for hee that is not in peace , hath his conscience full of horror : If he but see another prosper , he is afflicted at it , but if hee see it continue , hee plotteth and practiseth how to impeach it : yea , Saul was more troubled at Dauids rising , then at all which the Philistims did against him ; yea , Haman was not ashamed to confesse , that his riches , & his children , and his honours , and all the grace the King had done him , yet did nothing auaile him , so long as Mardochai was in his eye . Ester 5. oh how ill tasted is that , which takes away the taste of all other pleasures from vs : but the peaceable minded man is free from all this , hee tasteth pleasures in his prayers , he tasteth pleasure in his sleep , yea , he lies him down & sleeps in peace . Psal. 4. hee enuieth no man , but saith with Dauid , we haue wished you good luck , euen to the ten Tribes that were against him . Psal. 122. he asketh not the death of his enemy , much lesse contriueth it , but though he haue Saul in the cane , yet he loseth his aduantage , and letteth him goe , and hee that can doe thus , when hee dieth shall finde it true , which Abigail sayd to Dauid , It shall bee no greefe of minde to thee , that thou hast not auenged thy selfe .