Charity follows peace with all men

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Hugh Binning (Treatise of Christian Love), Works, p. 540:

Charity follows peace with all men, as much as is possible, Heb. 12:14. “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men,” Rom. 12:18. Many spirits are framed for contention. If peace follow them, they will flee from it. But a Christian having made peace with God, the sweet fruit of that upon his spirit is to dispose him to a peaceable and quiet condescendency to others; and if peace flee from him, to follow after it; not only to entertain it when it is offered, but to seek it when it is away, and to pursue it when it runs away. (Ps. 34:14, which Peter urges upon Christians, 1 Pet. 3:8-11.) “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another: love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise, blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. Let him eschew evil, and do good: let him seek peace, and ensue it.”
 
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