most important principle to be appealed to in support of benevolent enter- prises. It comes in aid, and gives its sanction to all other right motives, but we find the sacred writers appealing most frequently to the benevo- lent and pious feelings ; to the example of Christ; to a sense of our obli- gations to him ; to the mutual relation of Christians and their common connexion with the Redeemer, &c. as motives to self-denial and devoted- ness, vs. 15, 21.
9. As the religion of the gospel consists in the inward graces of the Holy Spirit, all who have these graces should be recognised as genuine Christians ; being acceptable to God, they should be loved and cherished by his people, notwithstanding their weakness or errors, vs. 17, 18.
10. The peace and edification of the church are to be sought at all sacrifices except those of truth and duty ; and the work of God is not to be destroyed or injured for the sake of any personal or party interest, vs. 19, 20.
11. An enlightened conscience is a great blessing; it secures the liberty of the soul from bondage to the opinions of men, and from the self-inflicted pains of a scrupulous and morbid state of the moral feelings ; and it promotes the right exercise of all the virtuous aflfections, and the right discharge of all relative duties, v. 22.