268 Separation tendeth to Apoffafe. to infidelity, and to the renouncing of Chrif} him Pelf ? you little fufpe& that your extraordinary frianefs, for the purity of the Church .loth tend to your turning heathens , and denying the whole Chhfrch ? But remember, that the nature ofGod is fa infinitiy Goad, as well as 3u!1, and the Gofpel is fuck 714d tydings to all the world, and Chrif} cal- led, the Saviogr of the world, and God is faid fo to love the world ingiving him, Job. 3. r 6. that if you auld fay God woaald fave bur one my; in the world, or ten, or a thoufand, anddamn all the rent, if you did in your bravado believe your fe4ves i.1.714° year, by the next you might be like enough to believe that the Gofpel is but a fable. I have much adoe to forbear naming force high Profef- fours (known lately at (Forager, Exeter and other parts) whod,ed Apof}ate-infidels, deriding Chri- ilianity and the immortality of the foul,whoonce were Separatiffs. And I muf} profefs to you that for myown part, if I did believe that Chrill, Church were no more numerous than all the Se- paratìís on earth , it would make the work of faith more difficult : For as he is no King that hath no K ngdom ; fo he is next to no King whole Kingdom is next to none He that would prove that our King is only King of Iflington, or Hackney andno more, would by deriding him to day, prepare for the depo(ing him to morrow. They are glorious things that are fpoken of the Kingdom of Chrifol ; even that the Kingdoms of tle world are become his Kingdoms. And ifyou will take from him all lave two or three Cot- tages, I mean the feparated Churches only, it is but a little addition to your treafó:i to take the rely,
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