Hoadly - BX5136 H6

( 4 ) obfervatión of all ; and fnce you will all agree, that it is the indifpenfable Du- ty of us all to do whatever lies in our Power towards an eftablifhed Peace and °Unity ; confider whether the way toac- complilli this, be to look after our own Tempers only, without regarding the evil effeas our Practice may have upon others; or to confult the natural tens dencies of our A&ions, and to guide our pra&ice in all lawful things, as we find it rnoft conducive to the publick Peace, and leaf} likely to prove the oc- cafion of Heat, and Difcord, and Vari- ance, toothers. This feems to me plainly recommend- ed to all Chriflians, by the Law of Na- ture, and the Gofpel of Jefus Chrift; tho' they could be fecure of preferving their own Tempers and Pallîons. with- in the bounds of Regularity and De- ceocy, without this. For this refults e- vidently from that obligation Chriffians are under, to regard confcientioufly the Good of their Neighbour, the Honour oftheir holy Profellìon, and the Intereft of that Society they belong to. But in- deed imENNEMIN

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