ofCONFORMIT?. Prejudice, or Paillon, or Hatred, or any worldly deuign hath blinded théir Eyes, andhinder'd them from feeing theTruth, or attending to it, or embracing it. AndI muff entreat them toconfider, That they ought not to facrifice the CommonPeace to their own privateMumours,orFancies; that nothing can excufe them, but a Con- fcience that they have been moll willing and ready to liften toall4rcuments thatcan be offered,and to yield to them,ifthey ap- pear convincing ; and therefore, that, as they love theHonour oftheir Mafier,and the Peace of theSociety they belong to ; as they hope to anfwer for themfelves at the great Day of Accounts, and to be ac- quitted before God and the World ; they are molt ftrongly obligedto feek for Con- viaion,to wifh for fatisfaetion, not to ac- quiefce in the Principles they have been educated in, or have once embraced, as if they were unqueflionable;but to free their Minds from all Prejudice, and Paffion, and candidly to receive whatever is ad- vanced to prove a Compliance with they Terms to be lawful. The EifeE s, and Confequences of Separation are difmal, and horrible ; the EffeEs of Vnity and Conformity, plelfed and Glorious And there- 175 ;
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