26 CHAPTER, XVII. How theSaines gather into communion , andgrow up unto a body or church. TH E calingof the Sains into corn- monion , we haue feene to confit} oftwo branches. Firft,a feparation from the wickedof theworld ; fecond, and a colle&ion or gathering togither ofthem felues in faith and loueof Chrift.Which two things were alto implied in the firft callingofour fatherAbraham, when aGe».xz,r. he was willed;firíl,to get ahimout from his countrey, kinred, and fathers houle, b IoJ:24,2, (which were b idolaters:) fecondly, and tocome to the place which God would thew hint, ( where he and his pofteritie; cPfIo5,44 c might ferue and obey the Lord. It re- q s. dent. 4, mayneth yet further to be fpoken,of the 5. covenant & cómunion , that the Sains enter into & keepe among themfelues. 1. This' congregation of Saints , when it is at the greateft , is but a title flock and (mall remnant; being compa- red with the multitudes of the world : but the beginnings hereof, are marve- loufly
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