The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…

§. 5. V. The Love of our neighbours souls obligeth us to this: That which is best for us is best for them. Alas, carnal minds deceived by sin need not to have the way to heaven made harder, nor to ⟨p. 77⟩be tempted by the discords of Christians to despise them: Their own malignity and the devils temptations, when we have done our best may suffice to deceive them and undo them: Every Christian should be a helper to the salvation of all about him, and a soldier under Christ, to fight against Satan as he is the great divider and destroyer. As ever therefore we pity the souls of sinners, and would not be guilty of their damnation, we should keep the Unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.

§. 5. V. The Love of our neighbours souls obligeth us to this: That which is best for us is best for them. Alas, carnal minds deceived by sin need not to have the way to heaven made harder, nor to ⟨p. 77⟩be tempted by the discords of Christians to despise them: Their own malignity and the devils temptations, when we have done our best may suffice to deceive them and undo them: Every Christian should be a helper to the salvation of all about him, and a souldier under Christ, to fight against Satan as he is the great divider and destroyer. As ever therefore we pity the souls of sinners, and would not be guilty of their damnation, we should keep the Unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.

§. 6. VI. Our Love to the Church and Sacred Ministry doth oblige us. Our Discords unsay too powerfully what Christs Ministers say, when they set forth the power of grace, and the excellency of Christianity! All the opposition of the arguments and reproaches of Quakers or malignant profane enemies is of far less force against the Gospel, than the discords of professed Christians. The labours of many worthy Ministers have been hindered, and their hearts even broken with such sinful and scandalous divisions; when the enemies hit us in the teeth with these, we are ashamed and cannot deny the fact, though we can deny their false conclusions. How much of the designs of Satan and his agents have lain in dividing the servants of Christ? Some of the moderate and peaceable Emperors in the more flourishing state of the Church and Empire, by the discords and mutinies of factious Christians were made a-weary of their Crowns: Yea some of those that the hasty hereticating Orthodox party too hastily pronounced heretics and heretical (such as Theodosius junior, Zeno, Anastasuis, Justinian, &c.) were tired out with labouring in vain to keep the Christian Bishops in Peace, and by Historians are recorded to be men of better qualities than