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R.L.
Epheflans.Chap.r.
S
head,much
more
to
fo
great
a
benefit,
as
the allotting
of
our
cal-
lings
is.
Yea, it mull
be
a
ground
of
contestation
in
every
Gate
of
life, and
of
retied
perfeuering in
fuch callings
in
which
wee
haue
been
trained, remembring
that
who
fo
changeth his place
vnaduifedly,
is
like
a
Bird now from her
neaa,
who
may
be well
weather.bearen before
Thee
returne
:
Yet
when God doth orderly
leade vs
to more
free
and
comfortable
conditions,
we
are
rather to
vfe
them.
t cor.7.21.
Saints
at
Epbefru.
]
From this, that
he calleth
the members
of
this
Church Saints,Obferue,that
all
the members
of
the
vifible
Church,
are
to be
Saints.A
Saint
is
inwardly
a
Saint, or by outward profef-
fion
:
Now
Saint
Pawl
was
not
ignorant, that
there were bad
fifh,as
well
as
good,Chaffe,as
wellas
Wheate,in
this
vifible
Church;
neuertheleffe,
be
doth
well callthem
Saints. Firft;
Becaufe
they were
all
by outward
profeffion
fo,yeá, &confprmitie,
for
ought
we
know:
Secondly
;
Becaufe
there were
many
true Saints
:
Now
the better,
part,
not the bigger, giueth the denomination.
Wine
and
water
is
called
wine ; Gold and Silver
Oare
vnfined,
is
called
gold
and
fluff,
though yet
much droffe be
intermedled with
it.
Looke how
a
ciuill
vertuous man doth
not
like
to
haue in
his
houle vnciuil rake
Thames,
fo
the
moil holy God
willnot
Allow
any
in
his
family,
openly vn-
holy.Like
matter,
like man,
at
lealI
in outward
conformity
;
and
looke
as
no
man can thinke
well
to
have
Swine
in his
houle, or Dogs
and
Swine come
to bourdwith the
teaof
his
family
;
So here,
open
finners,who after their names
giuen to Chrift,returne
to
their vomit,
they haue no allowance
from
God to be
in
his
houfehold
:
When
we
fee
it
otherwife,
it is
through
f
nfull
neglect
of
due
cenfures,
& fuch
ashaue
the
power
of
them
fhall
anfwere
it.
But
here
the
Bromnifs
mua
be
anfwered,who reafon thus
;
Emery
true vifible
Church
flandeth
ofvifible Saints
;Oar
Cbarches
Hand
net
of
vifible
Saints;
Ergo,Tbey
are
rot
true,
and
by coafequent
to be
feparatedfrert.. The
propoftitm
bath
a
double
feofe
:
Firft,
euery true Church
hash in it forne vifible
Saints,thus it
is
true;
but
then the frcond part
of
the reafon
is
falfe;
ours haue in them no vifible
Saints.The
fecund fente is,euery
true
vi-
fible
Church ifandeth,or
bath
in it onely vifible
Saints,itandeth,
in-
tirely
of
thefe,no
others
any
way
intermingled
:
Now
if
one
vnder-
f'land
this
de
iare,viz
:ofwhat
kind
of
perlons
tkeChurch
should
Ttand,
it
is
true;
but
if
it
be vnderllood
of
that
which
through
iniquity
of
forme
tnen,falleth
out
in the
Church,then it
is
falfe;For,the
Church
of
Corinth
was
a
true
vifible
Church,
while
the
incelluous perlon re-
mained
vncafl
forth,though
he was
of
right tohaue
beene excommu-
nicate;
And
how abfurd is
it
that
one finner,by the
negligence
of
form
vncatl
forth,Thould degrade
a
thoufand
from the dignity
of
a
Church?
This doctrine then,that themembers
ofthe
Church
are
to
be Saints,
dothlet
vs
fee
the
feareful
eaate
of
many amongft
vs
Who
like
as
they
telofHalifax Nuts,which
are
allfhels,no
kernels
;fo there
profefle
thë-
felues
Saints,but their ignorance, their idle courfes, their
riots, their
blafphemies,proclaimethat
there
is
nothing within
which
belongeth
to
a
Saint.
Nay,
many
will
not
flicke
to
profeffe
they
are
none
ofthe
holy
brother-hood, to
ica
at
fuch
indeauour to holineffe; faying,
B