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Rules
for
Neighbourly
i.eace.
473
If
once
a
fpirit
of
envie
loth
prevaile
in
the
hearts
of
men,
there's nothing
tivil
keep them at peace.One
man
envies
atano-'
ther;he lees
such a
man
gets
more then he,iuch
a
man
gets
the'
credit
and honour
.et
inch
a
thing
more
then 1.;
Now
when
a.
fpirit
of
envie
prevailes,
there
will
come
a
fpirit
of
contenti-
on: But when men labour
to
doe
what good they
can
in'the
places
that
Gòd
bath
fet
them,
and,
they
can,
reloyce
in
what
good
they fee
God
makes other§
to be
an
Inítrument
of
;
they
can
appeale
to
God,
Lord
thou knoweft what 'a
joy
it
is
to
náÿ
heart
to hear
or
fee that thou
rakeli
others to be
an
Infiru-
nient
of
good
as
well
as
I
:
this
is
acceptable.
to
God.
Eighthly, And
theta
the läft thing
that I
would
propound is
this,
That there
it ould be often neighbourly
meetings for
the
keeping of
peace, and the
Making peace.
where
there
'is
ally
breach
of
it
and
fpecially thofe
that
are
of
the
chiefe iti'places
and
Townes
:
And
these
meetings
ilaould.
Abe
in
their
owne
houles,
'tis
molt
honourable
and
cafe
and
'comely,
and
like
to
be
molt
profitable,
for
men
in
Pariihes
and
Townes
to
meet
together at their
owne
houles, and not
to
make
the
place of
their
meetings
to be
in
Tavernes; For
though
it's true, it
is
hot
limply unlawful! in
it
felfe for
Friends
to
meete
there,
iut
though
it
be not
in
it
felfé
Limply
unlawfull,
yet certainly
it's
more honourable for
thole that
are chiefe in
Townes,
that
they,
can
meete
together
in
their
own-
habitations,
and
there's
more
love
in
meeting together at their
own
houles, then
at
the
Taverne
;
and
there
is
nor
fo
much
dai
ger
there;
though
they
inrend
no
hurt
when they- goe,;
yet there
is
a
greater
temptation
there
;
although fotnetinacs
it's:
but
little
that is
dither
eat or drunk,
vet
eit
,foie
other tithes there
may
be
e
cell
,
And
fo
the
btlflnefft
of peace
and love
may
run 'Ate
the bùfinéffe
Of
escelle.
in
elating;
;ind
drinking, and pleating
tip:
;fief a, andyfo
no
good,
t
_all.
done,
but rather
`before,
they
hart
one from
another,
fill
-out one
'veth
-another,'-wheíi
they
tuve,tticen fomewh<t
too
liner'!!
of the ufe
ofthe
creature
41
the;refow.
tthogh
the
thingbe
not
m
it
sown
nature
evii1,`
yer
youlcnow. What
the rule of
the;
`,Apo!tle is
;
Whatf
eve,'
phi!,
4;
s;
if
¡m
4TG
Itr,
14,;,,
4.1[9eNT,
tliint
s,
are
hm4efr,
;whatfoevev
-things
are
jref/l
,
wìatfoever things are
pas,
e,
wharf
ever
things
Pp
p
arc