36 ) Ieffer Concerns to thefe, and to recede from what we imagine to be due to us in Juf}ice, or from what we might, in ftrianefs of Right, lawfully infift up- on ; to recede, I fay, from this, for the fake of a great anduniverfal Good. And the Excellence of this Chriftian Grace, in its Influence upon humane Society, ap- pears from hence, that it leavesnot Men at liberty, and indifferent to Peace, and Concord, till they are all fatisfied in their Judgments, fo far as to be of one Opini- on, and to think the fame things tuft and reafonable in themfelves. This would be endlefs : And no one could hope to fee Peace in any one Society in the World, upon luch Terms ; there be- ing little reafon to hope for an univerfal Agreement in the fame Notions. But Moderation, as it was fincerely deGgned topromote the peace ofSociety, fo it takes a more effeaual Courfe than this, to ac- complifh its Delgn. For it teaches, and obliges, thofe that differ never fo widely in their Opinions concerning let- ter Matters, to unite, and agree, for the fake of fomething that is of more Weight and Importance. Modfration, it
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