The Bl fednef of the Peace-makers. 393 right of eftablifhing, and bath aftually eft a- SE R M. blifhed, in that cafe he would not give place, XIV. by fubje&ion, fo much as for one hour; nay, `"^' and withftood to the face men otherwife of great and juft reputation in the churches, who in that inftance weakly yielded, charging thetn with diflïmulation, as we read in the ad chapter of the epiftle to the Galatians, We may then conclude, that the peace which our Saviour would have his difciples to promote, is not built upon the furrender of our religious principles and privileges, or upon the ruins of honefty ; filch a peace would rather be a confpiracy againft him; but every man by a faithful adherence to his own particular duty and the regular dif- charge of it, is a preferver inftead of being a difturber of peace, provided always he aft - eth with charity, and all the condefcenfion to others, which confcience can allow. Seconde, Another ingredient in the cha- racter and fpirit of a peace -maker is a zeal- ous affection to the intereft of fociety as fuch. As the inflinEts of nature and our reafon di- red us to enter into focieties of various forts, which bath been already obferved, and the ends of the chriftian religion and exprefs declarations of fcripture teach us to form the focieties
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