476 AChain of Principles; Aph. 6. earth have been and may be laid waffe : fo by virtue of Gods promi- fes , we may be confident that the gates of hell (hall never prevail a- gai.nf' the whole Church of Chrifl; yet may divers particular Churches be ruined (as thole in .4fìa have been ). Noman knows howmanymore may have the fame line of Defolation drawn over them. Mean while the Catholick Church f}ill not one ly continues, but thrives, becaufe like the lea it wins in one place., what it lofeth in another; like the Sun it rifeth to the Antipodes when it lets to our Hemifphere. IL That a particular Church in cafe it degenerate cannot challenge fuck intere{} in them, as it might , if it had continued pure. There was to be a time when the vineyard in E- Ira. s. 4)5)6 fai4s fhould affoard red wine ; then it might look for watering every mo- ment, and being kept from all hurt. But there was allo a time when it de- generated,
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