It is for Christian statesmen, as the world is now circumstanced, to secure their common basis, and not to risk the subversion of the whole fabric by pursuing these distinctions with an ill-timed zeal.
Burke calls for Christian statesmen to focus on common ground rather than risking the stability of their governance through divisive zeal.
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