Chain of Principles. 433 moves it f tfaright. So as we are here Exerc. zé by it to underftand a reformed Church. Suchat this dayare thePro - teftant Churches come out of Popery: For we may diftinguifh a four-fold face of the Chriftian vifible Church fpoken of by Divines. The firít fair, in theApo(tles time the was then a virgin undefiled : the fecond Spotted, in the fucceeding age of Fathers and He- reticks wherein traditions began to prevaile , fhe was then a Wanton: the third Deformed , when Popery oven fpread all; thewas then an Whore : the 'fourth Deformed fince Luthers time : the is now a Matrone, and may ex- fpe&, fo far as it [hall be for her good and her keepers glory that continual) irrigation , and conftant cu{tody , which is here fpoken of. Such as with and proje& (as fume have done the total and final ruine ofthe. vifible Church ) mutt effea it in a time that neither belongs today nor night : for the Lord bath here promife.d to keep it, Kkk z lc(
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