VEx. 12. ephefiant,Chap.2. 277 Turks and Infidels, (a World to Chriftendom) in Popilli kingdoms, I 4 or in the perfecuted and Schifmaticall parrs of the true Church : It hath pleafed our bleffcd and moll bountiful! Lord God, to put us 5 alto into this little nook of the earth , where the Gofpel dines with fuch glory,truth, and peace. Let us therefore be thankfull,and bring forth fruits anfwerable to this rich mercie of . Godvouchlafed to us; left he takeawayhis candleftick, and deface theface ofour Churches, caufing us to want our holy affemblies. Thirdly , let us not leave our fellowfhip, and effrange our felves yr 3; fromGods people, from the affemblies, as Brownifts and other No- Can not thy out velifts do. To be difcommoned aTown, or for a Citizen to beba- fel f blefïed f of this eom- nifhed a city, is a great evil! : But tobe an exile from Gods city,and mun;ón. difcommoned from the communionof Saints, this is lamentable in- deed. Why shouldwe, like Prodigals, withdraw our felves from our Fathers boufc, and bring upon our felves by fuch fingular fepara- Ling, this great mifery, to be eftranged from them who are Gods truc Ifrael! It is again to be obferved,that this phrafe noteth more in there Gen- àoTe tiles, as being feparated from the pretenceof Gods people, thenot (4k"' being members ofGods Ifrael; it notethalfo an alienationofthe afFe- dtion from them.This word is thus taken,Col.t.2r. Yebeing oftranged, andenemies in underfianding : and thus it was in this matter. For ad- miniffration, the Dodtrine ofIfrael was a wall of feparatioa, was ha- tred to the Heathen; theywere not onely forth from being in it, orof it, but in affedtion were alienated, and hated ir. This Both teach us, how the naturali manhateth conjundtion with Dolly. them, where onely falvation is to be found. The wifdom of man Nacarallywe cannot be fubjedt to the wifdom of God theDodtrine of God, the hate the means Difcipline of God, thewhole policie of the Ifrael of God : Man by RomY8.. nature is fo eftranged from it, that it is hateful! to him. Though the Gentiles were miferabie, and no way to come out , but by joyning themfelvesas Profelytes with the peopleof God,yet they abhorred in hearty affedtion to joyn with the Ifrael of God. And it is even fo now, that men arc even moff averfc from that Y7o. which fhould be mof' beneficial! to them. Men fhould chufe to live Note cóls Feat full brand under thehearing of the Word, Sacraments, Difcipline; but they for ofcorrupt na the molt parr, there bellow themfelves,where theymaybe leafttrou- tute in many bled with thefe matters : So, where they fhould have their eyes to the Saints, who can teach them, whocanexhort them, could wifelyand faithfuly reprove them, Prov. r g. r s. they take fuch companions, as will rather intice and draw them to folly and wickedneffe. So the wilfull Papifts will not be drawn to the affemblies: The fool will not come to the wife; They hate the light, botanictheir deeds are evil, Joh. 3.19, 20. Strangersfrom the Covenantr] oftheLaw, andof the Gofpel ; for there two Covenants were well known in Ifrael. .It noteth two things : Bb 3 r. That
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