Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.
Simon Patrick (1848). “The Heart's Ease, Or, A Remedy Against All Troubles: A Consolatory Discourse, Particularly Directed to Those who Have Lost Their Friends and Dear Relations : to which is Added Two Papers Printed in the Time of the Plague, 1665”, p.3
