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16 principles of religion, than to ſpend your time about matters debatable, and leſs neceſſary to be known; ſee you do nothing that may break the peace and unity of the church: go not without the bounds of your ſtation, under a pretence of zeal and a public ſpirit. John xvii. 3. 1 Pet. iii. 15. Pſ. cxxxi. 1.

Exh. 34. Carry a due reſpect both to magiſtrates and miniſters; obey them in all things lawful, if in any thing you be public faulters and offenders, willingly ſubject both to civil puniſhment, and to church diſcipline and cenſures: regard and reverence rulers as your ſuperiors. Rom. xiii. 1,—8. Heb. xiii. 13.

Exh. 35. Do all you can in your ſtation for promoting the intereſts of the goſpel, as God doth call and enable you: join not at all with ill men and perſecutors, to trouble any body for their religion and conſcience: Sympathize with the perſecuted people of God in foreign churches, alſo ſympathize much with the blinded Jews, and Heathen nations, daily pray that God may pity and convert them, and make the light of the goſpel ſhine through the world. Acts ix. 26, 29.