All having the same Father should unite us
If we would live in peace, let us remember our relations to God — as children to a father, and to each other as brethren. Will not the thoughts that we have one Father quiet us, and the thoughts that we are brethren unite us? It was this that made Abraham propose terms of peace to Lot (Genesis 13): ‘Let there be no strife,’ saith he, ‘between us, for we are brethren.’ And we read of Moses, in Act. 7:26, using this argument to reconcile those that strove together, and to set them at one again: ‘Sirs,’ saith he, ‘ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?’ A deep sense of this relation, that we are brethren, would keep us from dividing. [John Bunyan]



















