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SERMON XLI

FOLLOW PEACE

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. - HEBREWS xii. 14.

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ligion, next to the main view of reconciling us to GOD, was to reconcile us to each other; by teaching us to subdue all those unfriendly dispositions in our nature, which unfit us for happiness, and the social enjoyment of the many blessings which GOD has enabled us to partake of in this world, miserable as it is, in many respects. - Could christianity persuade the professors of it into this temper, and engage us, as its doctrine requires, to go on and exalt our natures, and, after the subduction of the most unfriendly of our passions, to plant, in the room of them, all those (more natural to the soil) humane and benevolent inclinations, which, in imitation of the perfections of GOD, should dispose us to extend our love and goodness to our fellow