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AN Olive Branch, found after a Storme in the Northern Seas.
2 THESS. 3.16.Now the Lord of peace himselfe give you peace alwayes, by all meanes.
IT is the happinesse of the Church of God, that although they cannot give peace, yet they may get it: and although they can∣not settle it on earth, they may seek it from heaven: and they have this of Gods own minde, for their incouragement; that he thinks thoughts of peace towards them, and to give them an expected end, Esa. 29. ver. 11. and what is at any time most improbable to sense is visible to faith. And my present vision is a ladder reaching from heaven to earth, and this ladder is Christ, by whom all our prayers have their passage to the Throne of grace: and their rich and faithfull returnes made from Gods Treasury to supply all our wants. Which hath put me upon this designe in the travell of my soule, and I