Icnow'the'ate of the untverfal Church. 267 DIRECT. LVI. Keep Ilia In your thoughts, theBate of au Chrifts Churches upon Earth that you may know. what a people they are throughthe world, whomCbrtfl bath communion with -; and may not be deceived by ignorance, to feparate from allmoll ail Chrtjls Churches wile you think that you feparatefrom none, but the fear that are about you. THoufands of well meaning people live as if England were almoft all the world. And do boldly feparate from their Neighbours here, which they durflr not do,if they foberly considered that almott all the Cbríflian world are worfe than they. But narrow minds who can look but little further with their Reason thanwith their eye-fight, do keep out at once both Truth and Loy. It is point that T have often had occaionto repeat,apd yet will not forbear to repeat is here again; It is but about one fixth part of the known world who make any profeffion of Chritli,anity and are bap- tized : (betides how much peopled the unknown part of the world may be, we knownot.) Of this fixth part the Ethiopians, Egyptians, Syrians, Ar- menians, the Greek Churches, the Mufcovites, and all thePapiils, are fo great a body, that all the Proteffants, or Reformed Churches are little more than a fixth part of this fixth : (The Papifis being about a fourth or ffdh part ; and the other V 4
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