( 3) know the Goodnefs and Charity of their own Tempers) may be apt to judge fully fufficient for thisendwithout either of the former: And that is, the univerfal praaice of Love, and Chari- ty, and mutual Forbearance, amidft our different Modes of Worfhip. And I would to God, that there were any thing in the Tempers of Men to incline us to hope for an univerfal PraEice of fuch God-like Virtues. But where is there any ground for us to expea this ? Some few, it may be, imagine them- felves poffefs'd of a true Chriftian Tem- per : But of how (mall importance is this to be efteemed, when we confider the great numbers of thofe who are wholly unacquainted with it ; when we daily fee, how much heat and violence is entirely owing to our Religious Di- ftinaions ; and what a handle they give as well to defigning Men at Home, as to our profeffed Enemies Abroad, to inflame us againif one another, and to make us the Inftruments of bringing about their Deigns ? Since, therefore% this is fo very evident, and open to the obfer.- I:
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