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Rules for
Nfighbourly-
pesce.
471
friends
together. O
take
heed
of
entertaining
any
thing
meer-
ly
by
hearfay;Confider, this peace
between
me and my
neigh-
-
bour,
it
is
precious,
and
I
am
loth
to
lode
the
benefit, the
fweetneffe
of
it
for'nothing
;
Therefore
I
will
inquire whether
it be
trite or no
;
and
if
need
be
I
will
rather
goe
to
him
him-
felfe
to
know
ir, then
I.
will
entertains
grudges
,
and that tha¡
may
breed
Contention
between
us
:
That's the
firff
rule.
Secondly
,
Take
heed ofbeing peremptory
in
thy Judge=
ment
in
thine owneCaufe,
but be
willing
to
hear thofe
that
are
not
intereifed
-n
the
Caufe
:
And above
all
times take
heed of
your
Judgement
in
time of
paflion
:
Though men
are
never
fo
refolute
as
they are
in
time
of
paillon,
yet the
truth
is,mei
are
never fo
unable
to
judge
as
they
are when they are
-angery
;
of
all
times
doe
not believe your
ovine
judgement, if
anger
be
once
got
up
:
When
once
the
thing
is got into the
af}e
&ions,
Pe
°Iom
1R``
the
judgem
nt
that'vanithes
Men have
the
weakefl
judge-
tÿ`,ß
fr
of
ments
in their
paillon, and
yet they
will be
the moll
peremp=
awn.
tory in
their
judgements then
;
That's
the fecoüd rule.
If
you,
would have
peace
among
Neighbours;
be not
too peremptory
in
your
judgtents
in
your owne
Caufe,
and efpecially
be-
lieve
not
your
judgements
in
your
time
of paillon,
but rather
goe
and think
ofit
pray
over
ir.
Thirdly, (
That
may
be
a
diflin& one
)'
doe not
fall-
our
with
any
neighbour,
till
you
have
been
before
at
prayer,
that
God
would
dire&
you in this
bufrnefe
O
here's
a
bufineffe
falls
out that
is
dike
to
bring
á great
deale
of
difturbanee,
Lord
dire&me; Lord
help me, guide
me
in
this, that
I
may
doe
nothing:dilhotiourable
to thy
great
Name
-;
-nothing
dif
agreeable
to thy
will:
I
appeale
to
your'Confciences
in
this,
you
that
have had
to
deale
wi
h
neighbours,
rappeale:but
to
your
Confciences in
this thing, Can
you fay
thus
;-
There
was
never any
falling
out
between
me
-and
any
neighbour,
but
r
Went fi
Pt
to God
to
dire&
me
in
the.bufineffe
,
and
to teach
me how
I
fhould
behave my felfe about
it
,
with
arefolutioti
to walke
according
to
what
dire
&ions
God
should grant
tq:me'
by his
Word
,
and by his
Spirit.
Certainly,
Your
contentious
-men; and
unpeaceableinen,-they feldome pray; they feldotne
carte-