122, The Reaf hablenef is a thing of that moment, that nothing ought to divert us from preífing towards it. But then, on the other fide, would any who ferioufly defire this Accommoda- tion, and with for fuch Conceffions, take fuch Methods to procure them, as, in the ordinary andconítantcourfe ofthings, mutt refft and hinder them ? Would you anger and incenfe thofe whom you would have yield and comply ? Would you provoke and irritate Men whom you woulddifpofe to agree with you ? Would you, in any affair in the World, be ever inveighing againft the Caufe, or Behaviour of Perfons, with whom you defire to fettle a biting Concord, and from whom you hope for fore favour- able Conceffions? I believe not ; yet here you aE after that manner. For there is hardly any thing that hath the lealt ten- dency to obtain this defied Union, and in order to it, to (often the hardneffefs, to cool the heats, to engage the affeEti- ons ofany on whom this Concord mutt depend ; there is hardly any thing of this Nature that you have thought fit to do. But there is hardly any thing that tends to keep us at a diltance from one another, and hinder this Agreement, that
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