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SECT. II.
Contains a Collection of divers remarkable Te∣stimonies, suitable to the Subject treated on.
MAny other Convincing Motives and pacifick Arguments upon divers accounts, might be used and urged, to perswade you to the aforesaid Noble Resolution; but it would be too tedious to insert them here: However to pro∣mote and encourage the same, consider further these following Testimonies in the first place, and afterwards some pressing Con∣siderations to excite all towards Peace, &c.
I. Eusebius de vita Const. 67. Constantine saith to the Bishops you are not ignorant, the Philosophers all of them, do agree in the profession of the same Discipline, but do oftentimes differ in some part of the Opinions that they Dogmatize; but tho' they do dissent about the Discipline that each † several Sect obser∣veth, they nevertheless Reconcile themselves again, for the sake of that Common Profession, to which they have con∣curred.
II. J. Hooper in his Ecclesiastical Polity, saith, The Time will come when three words with Charity and Meekness, shall re∣ceive a far more blessed Reward than 3000 Volumes written with disdainful sharpness; or he might have added twice 3000 Sermons framed from Mens inventions, and delivered with the greatest Eloquence or Acuteness of Wit. A late Ingenuous Author, says, I trust in the Almighty God, that Contentions with us, are now at the highest float and that the day will come (for what cause is there of despair) when the Passions of former Enmity being allayed, Men shall with ten tiems re∣doubled tokens of unfeigned reconciled Love, shew themselves each to other the same, which Joseph and the Brethren of Jo∣seph were at the time of their enterview in Egypt.
III. There was a long feud between Themistocles and Aristi∣des: But being both imployed in the service of their Country,