( 37) it is true, doth not oblige us to alter our Judgment about the Reafonablenefs, or lJnreafonablenefs ; the Juflice, or In- juftice, of any particular Matter: But it doth what is much more likely to con- tribute to the happinefs of the World ; for it obliges us to give up a Right, and to recede fromwhat appears to us to be a reafonable Demand, rather than to give the leaf} occalon to the difturbance, and unhappinefs, of Society. So that it appears to be the great bufinefs of Mode- ration, to induce us to praElife all larv- ful things for the fake of Peace, and Concord amongfl Chriflians. And con- fequently, your conflant Conformity to the etablifhed Church, being, in your own Judgments, lawful , Chrifian Mo- deration is fo far from inclining you to refufe it, that it doth, it felf, lead you to it ; as it leads you to all APIs of Com- pliance, and Condefceníìon , for the fake of a great, and univerfal Goode This, I think a true Account of Chriii- an Moderation, and particularly of that Place in the New Teftament, where St. Paul prefcribes to Chriflians, that. their Moderation be known unto all Men. )r But 4
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