Chap.. 3 p . The Old and New Covenant. 2 35 Jefus Chrift in his E piffle, then the Laodicean State in 'Ilia then exiflent; yet how zealous is he againft feparation from thefe Affemblies? having largely let out a double and fin - gular honour in that .hurch , viz, Chriffs entrance into thofe that open to him, and his fveet reftdence and abode be :ng enteredwith them , he break's out into thefe words. a Therefore their errour is aSce/eftus igitur bla[phemuseorum wicked and blafphcmous, who fo forfake the error uaffeftr, iJ1v4 h prorfusl a aree ,uned Church, at if Chrifl were altogether ba- ulla fpes falartismanentrbusejfepojfet.Co- nifhed thence, and no hope of falvation left gitent hic Ghriftem convtvantcm cum juif for thofe that do remain. Let them think An ptdebit cos illic difbumbcre, ubi vi- upon (shrift , as feat ing here with his. dent Gliriftum non pu ere. An illo fan- be afhamed to fit dozen where they cony :ncuntttrso ipforrsm ufu grtN n fe po f- Will they Chrif as not afhamcd ? Will they be funs it ciari gain pries in chriftumcre -- more holy and pure then he ?wherfore do they diderint , gttàm fecerunt nobif. di- not . convince themfelves in. their own pra- vortium ?unde h ec illi fides ?,/!noon cas. cfice ? they cannot deny but they believed prædicationein noffra.eeclefa?_ Nunquid in Chri ,be are they made a divorce from aute'm prædicare quis pore ft nifi mittatur? fl f f IZom id ergo verbum pro - from so? whence had they this faith; came pter labem aliquam ujuis vocationis tam: it not by the preaching in our Church ? and perverè refpuunt, cujus vim d%via,am -in can any one preach unlee he be fent? Rom. cordtbres feutiunt ? ntamobrem redite ad unira em ecclef x qua vos genuit(alu- i o.. t . wherefore then do they fo pervert- /7 fi fugiaris hone Ghrifrum qui cum e- naufeate the word upon any pretence of lecis in noftris cætibv cænat, aeeos. vi blot in an external caging, When they are cifinexcipit,profeffo nufquamainvenietis. fen1ble of its divine power in their hearts ? Wheretore returne to the unity of the Church, Which hath be- gotten and bath nourifbed on; if you lay from Chrif -who feafl's with his dell sn our Congreation, entertaining them mutually, truly you will finde him, no where. How doth Reverend Nlafter Orton in his preface to Matter: Hilderfhams work. upon the fourth of 7ohn (whom without honour I cannot . mention)fet forth his .renoune,forstbis -work of oppofing fe- paration: of which he ftill.appeares to be tender though he feeme pag. s 3. of his Treatife of holineffe of Church - members to be over - indulgent to it; fpeaking in excufe of thofe that withdraw from Communion in publick ordi: names of Ch rift, when Church-Officers receive in for.mem bers of the Church thofe that are moftfcandatious and wic- ked , and, not fuck Saints as writeth to, at Rome, U h. 3 Corintl4.
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