hap. 3 r . The Old and New Covenant. j 3 3 not into your' hassle, neither bid him Go [peed, 2 John to. then much leffe may we hold fuch'Comr union with them. It is faid even of Mice, when the houfe through ruines is falling they will be gone; (hall nature teach them to pro- vide for their fafety, and fhall nothing teach Chrifthans to fee to their own falvation? When Jertefalem was to be deftroyed according to Chrifts prediction, and not one Bone to be left upon another; a voice is faid to be heard cry. ing, Get out to 'Pella. Foundation- breaches feen and fuf- fered is as this voice to be gone, fuch a 7erufalems walls are falling. There is a flight too loon, when care might keep up the buildings, when with the poor man we may fave and deliver the Citie, ecclef.9, 15. They that preach- ed Chrift in thofe Churches of Galatia, and preached down Circumcifion, and other points of Judaifine, pleafed the Apoftle better, then they that without fuch endeavour fhould defert it; fo thofe that had preached the refurre ti- on in Corinth, better pleafed then thofe that left the place for their fakes that denyed it. A Church may not onely degenerate, but apoftatize ; may not onely languifh, but lofe their vitali fpirits; may not onely difpleafe her Bride- groom, but fuffer a divorce; perhaps keep the title of a wife, and indeed be a ftrumpet, and want all evidence of relation to the Bridegroom. 2. In the cafe of pollutions of a more inferiour alloy, a Chriftian may be neceflitated to leave. t. When the food of life, knowledge in the word or means to compaffe it cannot be had: In fuch a cafe it muff be fought, they muff refolve with the Lepers, z Kings ;. 3. not to fit _fill and die. When the Prie/fs and Le Lites left their freburhs and po fj'e7ons,( under jeroboam s government being caft out of their employment; and the loweft -of the people, men of felf- confecration, let up in their ftead) then after them out of all the tribes of Ifrael, fuch au let their hearts to (e'el,,the Lord God of Ifrael, came to Jerufalem to facrifice to the Lord God of their fathers,2 Chron.ii. 16. being v shout a teaching Prieft, they were (as the Prophet tells Afa, 2 Chron. r 5.3. ) without the Law, and Wirbout God, and there was no Baying there. 2. When a man by compulfion is neceílitated to give approbation to fuch pollutions, in H h any
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