then, in what we know, unite, that we may put it in practice,
remembering, that if we know these things, we shall be happy if we
do them.

4. This unity and peace consists in our joining and agreeing to
pray for, and to press after, those truths we do not know. The
disciples in the primitive times were conscious of their
imperfections, and therefore they with one accord continued in
prayer and supplications. If we were more in the sense of our
ignorance and imperfections, we should carry it better towards those
that differ from us: then we should abound more in the spirit of
meekness and forbearance, that thereby we might bring others (or be
brought by others) to the knowledge of the truth: this would make
us go to God, and say with Elihu, Job xxxiv. 32, "That which we know
not, teach thou us." Brethren, did we but all agree that we were
erring in many things, we should soon agree to go to God, and pray
for more wisdom and revelation of his mind and will concerning us.

But here is our misery, that we no sooner receive any thing for
truth, but we presently ascend the chair of infallibility with it,
as though in this we could not err: hence it is we are impatient of
contradiction, and become uncharitable to those that are not of the
same mind; but now a consciousness that we may mistake, or that if
my brother err in one thing, I may err in another; this will unite
us in affection, and engage us to press after perfection, according
to that of the apostle; Phil. iii. 13-15, "Brethren, I count not
myself to have apprehended: But this one thing I do, forgetting
those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things
which are before, I press toward the mark, for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus. And if in any thing ye be otherwise