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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
.
God
vouchlafed
to
us;
left he take
away
his
candleftick,
and deface
the
face
of
our
Churches,
caufing
us
to want our holy
affemblies.
Thirdly
, let
us
not
leave
our fellowfhip,
and effrange
our
felves
yr
3;
from
Gods
people, from the
affemblies, as
Brownifts and other
No-
Can
not thy
out
velifts
do. To
be difcommoned
a
Town,
or for
a
Citizen to be
ba-
fel
f
blefïed
f of
this
eom-
nifhed
a
city,
is
a
great
evil!
:
But
to
be
an exile
from Gods city,and
mun;ón.
difcommoned
from
the communion
of
Saints, this
is
lamentable
in-
deed.
Why
should
we,
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 pretence
of
Gods
people, the
not
(4k"'
being members
of
Gods Ifrael;
it
noteth
alfo
an
alienation
of
the
afFe-
dtion
from
them.This
word
is
thus
taken,Col.t.2
r.
Ye
being oftranged,
and
enemies
in
underfianding :
and thus it
was
in
this
matter. For ad-
miniffration,
the Dodtrine
of
Ifrael was
a
wall
of
feparatioa, was ha-
tred
to the Heathen; they
were not onely
forth
from being
in
it, or
of
it,
but
in affedtion
were alienated, and hated
ir.
This
Both
teach
us,
how the naturali man
hateth
conjundtion
with
Dolly.
them, where
onely falvation
is
to
be found.
The
wifdom
of
man
Nacarally
we
cannot be fubjedt to the wifdom
of God the
Dodtrine
of
God, the
hate
the means
Difcipline
of
God, the
whole
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
themfelves
as
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
the
hearing of
the
Word,
Sacraments, Difcipline;
but they for
ofcorrupt
na
the molt parr, there
bellow themfelves,where theymay
be leafttrou-
tute in
many
bled
with thefe matters
:
So, where
they fhould have their
eyes
to the
Saints,
who
can
teach
them, who
can
exhort them,
could wifely
and
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,
botanic
their
deeds
are
evil,
Joh.
3.1
9, 20.
Strangers
from
the Covenant
r] ofthe
Law,
and
of
the Gofpel ; for
there
two Covenants were
well known in Ifrael.
.It
noteth
two
things
:
B
b
3
r. That