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

Another is from the common duty of pleasing others for their good and edifying. 25. Another is from the example of Christ ⟨p. 152⟩himself that pleased not himself. 26. Another is from Gods patience to us. 27. Another is from our great obligation to imitate Christ. 28. Another, because indeed this is the true way to Love and unity, that with one mind and one mouth we may glorify God, while we lay not our concord on impossible terms. 29. Another is in the concluding precept, because Christ receiveth us and it is to Gods Glory: therefore we must thus receive each other. If all these moral arguments signify no more than this [Receive and tolerate such till you make Laws against it] I cannot understand the argumentations of God or holy men.

Another is from the common duty of pleasing others for their good and edifying. 25. Another is from the example of Christ ⟨p. 152⟩himself that pleased not himself. 26. Another is from Gods patience to us. 27. Another is from our great obligation to imitate Christ. 28. Another, because indeed this is the true way to Love and unity, that with one mind and one mouth we may glorifie God, while we lay not our concord on impossible terms. 29. Another is in the concluding precept, because Christ receiveth us and it is to Gods Glory: therefore we must thus receive each other. If all these moral arguments signifie no more than this [Receive and tolerate such till you make Laws against it] I cannot understand the argumentations of God or holy men.

§. 13. III. And to conclude, Paul spake by the Holy Ghost and by Divine authority himself, and his words recorded are part of Christs Law indited by the Spirit; and no man that cometh after him or to whom he wrote, had power to contradict or obliterate it. All this methinks should satisfy men of the meaning of so full a decision of an easy case about things indifferent, which it's strange that so many yet for nothing do oppose: And that the authority of an Apostle in Sacred Scripture, the peace of the Church, and the souls and peace of all dissenters and doubting persons, should seem so contemptible to them, as not to weigh down their humour and domineering will, in an unnecessary and indifferent thing? But it is the nature of sin, especially Pride, to be unreasonable and unpeaceable, and the troubler of the soul, the Church, the world.