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A REPLY to the aforesaid ANSWER of Mr. Cotton.
In a CONFERENCE betweene TRVTH and PEACE.
CHAP. I.
IN what darke corner of the World (sweet Peace) are we two met? How hath this present evill World banished Me from all the Coasts & Quarters of it? and how hath the Righte∣ous God in judgement taken Thee from the Earth, Rev. 6. 4.
'Tis lamentably true (blessed Truth) the foundations of the World have long been out of course: the Gates of Earth and Hell have conspired together to intercept our joyfull meeting and our holy kisses: With what a wearied, tyred Wing have I flowne over Nations, King∣domes, Cities, Townes, to finde out precious Truth?
The like enquiries in my flights and travells have I made for Peace, and still am told, she hath left the Earth, and fled to Heaven.
Deare Truth, What is the Earth but a dungeon of darknesse, where Truth is not?
And what's the Peace thereof but a fleeting dreame, thine Ape and Counterfeit?
O where's the Promise of the God of Heaven, that Righteous∣nes and Peace shall kisse each other?
Patience (sweet Peace) these Heavens and Earth are grow∣ing Old, and shall be changed like a Garment, Psal. 102. They shall melt away, and be burnt up with all the Works that are therein; and the most high Eternall Creatour, shall gloriously create New Heavens and New Earth, wherein dwells Righteousnesse, 2 Pet. 3. Our kisses then shall have their endlesse date of pure and sweetest ioyes? till then both Thou and I must hope, and wait, and beare the furie of the Dragons wrath, whose monstrous Lies and Furies shall with himselfe be cast into the lake of Fire, the second death, Revel. 20.
Most precious Truth, thou knowest we are both pursued and