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Rules
for
neighbour-peace.
commend
the
caufe
to
God,
and
therefore
God
leaves
them
to
themfelves,
to
bring
fuch a
deale of trouble, both
to
them
-
felves
and.unto others.
Fourthly ,
Let
nothing be brought into publike view, be-
fore private
means
have
been ufed;whatfoever
offence
there
is
between
one
neighbour
and
another,
yet
obferve
this rule,
it's
a rule, that
Chrifi tells
us
;
If
thy
Brother offend thee,
tell
him
his
fault
between
him and
thee
alone
;
And
if
yet he-con-
tinues
in his
evill, then
take two
or three privately
;
After-
wards
bring
it
to the
Church.
So
that
this
concernes Chrifli-
ans,
that
whatfoever
offences fall
out,firo
private meanes
is
to
be
ufed
,
and
we are
not to
make
any
infirmities,
any
faults
of
any
of
our
Brethren
known
in
publick, untill we
have
tryed
private
meanes
:
Indeed
if
the
fault be publick,then
there
may
be publick meanes ufed
without
any
more adoe, but
if
the
thing that
is
done be
private, doe not
you
bring
it
into
pub
-
lick,
before
you
have
ufed private
meanes
to helpe.
A
fifth
meanes of peace
is
this
:
O
labour
to
Ingage
one
another
in
duties of love,make
account
that
'tis
a
great bene-
fit to
you,
if God
offers
you an
opportunity
to
Ingage a
neighbour
to
your felfe
:
we
fhould
fludy peace.
When
men
or womenare Ingaged
one
to another, then they
will
not ea-
fily break peace
;
But when they live
as
ftrangers one
towards
another ,
then
every
little
thing
makes
them break.
the
peace.
Sixthly,
Another rule
is
this
;
If
my good croffes
my
neigh-
bours commodity, or conveniency,
if
any
thing
that
I
would
have
doe
crofie
the mind
of
my
Brother,
let
me account
it
an
affli
&ion
to
me
;
though
it's true,
I
may lawfully
delire
my
right, yet if I
find
I cannot
have my
right
without
contention
with
my
Brother,
I
fhould make account
of
it
as
a
great
af-
fli&ion
to
my felfe
;
Indeed God
doth not deny
men
to
Peek
their right,
but
if
they
fee
they
cannot
have
it
without their
Brothers
affli
&ion
, they fhould
account
it
an
of
liótion
to
themfelves.
Seventhly
,
Farther, Delight
thou in doing good thy felfe,
and
rejoyce to
fee
others doe
good, that's the
way
of
peace.
If