The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the…

We have hitherto, professed our selves, A Country of Puritans; I beseech you then let us have the wisdom to be first pure, then peaceable. Every man should count himself liable to follies, & mistakes, & Misprisions not a few. Are you so, or are you not? If you are not, what do you here in this Lower World, where you can find no more of your own Attainments? If you are so, then be patient and peaceable towards those who see not with your eyes! Let us all condescend one unto another; and let no man be in a foaming Rage, if every Sheaf do not bow to hi•. There is one ingenious ⟨p. 32⟩way to unite this people, if it were so heeded as it ought to be. I remember, an inquisitive person of old, that he might know which was the Best Sect among all the Philosophers, he asked one and another, and every one still preferred the Sect which he was of himself: But he then asked them, successively, Which do you reckon the next best? and they all agreed, that next to their own, Plato's was the Best: upon which, he chose That, as indeed the Best of all. Thus, We all have our several Schemes of things, and every man counts his own to be the Best; but I would say to every man, Suppose your Scheme laid aside, What would you count the Next Best? Doubtless we should be of One mind as to That: And if we could act by the common measures of Christianity, we should soon be united in it. O that we could receive the Word of the Lord Jesus, in 2. Cor. 13. 11. Brethren, live in peace, and the the God of Love and Peace shall be with you.

We have hitherto, professed our selves, A Countrey of Puritans; I beseech you then let us have the wisdom to be first pure, then peaceable. Every man should count himselfe liable to follies, & mistakes, & Misprisions not a few. Are you so, or are you not? If you are not, what do you here in this Lower World, where you can find no more of your own Attainments? If you are so, then be patient and peaceable towards those who see not with your eyes! Let us all condescend one unto another; and let no man be in a foaming Rage, if every Sheaf do not bow to hi•. There is one ingenious ⟨p. 32⟩way to unite this people, if it were so heeded as it ought to be. I remember, an inquisitive person of old, that he might know which was the Best Sect among all the Philosophers, he asked one and another, and every one still preferr'd the Sect which he was of himself: But he then asked them, successively, Which do you reckon the next best? and they all agreed, that next to their own, Plato's was the Best: upon which, he chose That, as indeed the Best of all. Thus, We all have our several Schemes of things, and every man counts his own to be the Best; but I would say to every man, Suppose your Scheme laid aside, What would you count the Next Best? Doubtless we should be of One mind as to That: And if we could act by the common measures of Christianity, we should foon be united in it. O that we could receive the Word of the Lord Jesus, in