A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

6. This would hence make us earnestly covet an entire Union in all the things wherein we differ and contribute greatly to it. We are too prone many times to dislike things, for the disliked Persons sake who practise them. And a prevailing disaffection makes us unapt to understand one another; precludes our entrance into one another's mind and sense: which, if love did once open, and inclined us more to consider the matters of difference themselves, than to imagine some reserved meaning and design of the persons that differ from us: 'tis likely we might find our selves much nearer to one another than we did apprehend we were, and that it were a much easier step for the one side to go quite over to the other. But if that cannot be,

6. This would hence make us earnestly covet an entire Ʋnion in all the things wherein we differ and contribute greatly to it. We are too prone many times to dislike things, for the disliked Persons sake who practise them. And a prevaling disaffection makes us unapt to understand one another; precludes our entrance into one anothers mind and sense: which, if love did once open, and inclined us more to consider the matters of difference themselves, than to imagine some reserved meaning and design of the persons that differ from us: 'tis likely we might find our selves much nearer to one another than we did apprehend we were, and that it were a much easier step for the one side to go quite over to the other. But if that cannot be,

7. It would make us much more apt to yield to one another, and abate all that ever we can, in order to as full an accommodation as is any way possible, that if we cannot agree upon either extreme, we might at least meet in the middle. It would cause an emulation who should be larger in their grants to this purpose. As it was profest by Luther when so much was done at Marpurg towards an agreement between him and the Helvetians, that he would not allow that praise to the other Party that they should be more desirous of peace and concord than he. Of which amicable conference, and of that afterwards at Wittenberg, and several other negotiations to that purpose, account is given by divers.