Chap. 3 t . 'in the foundation wonderfully dangerous, not alwayes damnable; the cafe of the Galatians , f whom the Apoffle flood in feare, was jealous over them , through a godly jealoufie even of their revolt from Chriítianity to Jutiaifm, from Chrift to ¡Voles, from the Gofpel to the Law : Thefe yet he calls Churches, the members, brethren ; yet in a way to be no Churches, delivering thofe doctrines that cut off from Chriff,Ga1.5. 3. Here all thofe that are builders in Chrifts work, that are pillars, or any part of his bode muff be zealous, as we fee Saint Pod in this Epiftle quoted ; who will fee the foundation of the houfe where be lives that every day it threatens ruine undermined ? much leffe may we fuffer the foundation in Chrifts houfe to be thus ufed> This faith once delivered to the Saints is the com- mon falvation, for this we muff earneftly contend, Jude 3. for this we mull ftrive together,Ph:a. t.a7. Truths deny - ed, abjured, and refolved against ( as it was with Hymene- ms and Philettu, and the Apoftle law the Churches in Cla- latia in danger, as we heard before) is a ruine and rotten- neffe, that is irremediable and irrepairable, Befides breaches in fundamentals, there are breaches in fhperifru- &lions, and . thefe either more veer to the foundation, or i at a greater diftance. The neerer the foundation, the more danger, a breach is more f_ifferable neer the top, then at the bottome of a tower, or . caftle. There are errors of more I affinity with. thole that overthrow bottorne- truths, and there are thofe that ,are not fo nigh, and therefore not fo dangerous, fuck crept into the Latine. Church before Anti - shrift was raifed to his height and ffrength in his delufions, and Antichrift Rill holds them of all forts and fazes ; ei- ther of both of thofe maybe Negative or Pofitive. Nega- tive are luch where. the Do&rine of Faith is not laid, pofi- tive where it is miff- laid ; where edifying doftrines are not preached, and where they are mif- preacht, both tend to the Churches danger; a houfe never compleat or built up entire, but defective in feverall parts, little differs from that which is ruinous : The Apoftle who is worthily Wi- led a wife Mafter- builder, r Cor. 3, 10, mates .known . the whole counfell, of, God, Aas zo.27., The Old and. New Covenant. 2 3'
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