.. I(ir.8.Ji. 7"heSaints fore ~ fromour Chl1rch, as though Gods true woriliip and falvation were not there to be found. You fee how Sathan by fpirituall Pride may carry and .call: aman, from a fetled and' found courfe of ho– line!fe and finceritie,upon thedangerous Rockes of fingularitie ·and feparation. But und.erftand · me arighr,what I meane by fingularitic. I meane that onely whxch arifeth out of privie Pride, is . u.pholden by !elfe-will, and obfi:inatenelfe, ·and many times ends in feparation ; and hath neither gro.und'nor defence from found judgement, fpi- . .rituall wifedome, or true tenderneffe of Confci- . ence, joyned with humilitie, and willingneffe to be rightly informed. I meane not fingui~tritie,in refpeCl: of holineffe and unfpott~dneffcof life, in refpeC\ of difference and difi:ance from the finfull fafhions of the times : For in this fenfe, every man that will fave his foule, muft be fingular•. Hence it is, that our Saviour asketh his follow– ers, in MAt h. 5. ~hatJingular thing theydoe, if they ·doe but as the Publicans doe? As if hee fhould have faid: You that will be Chriftians, muft be of a more heavenly temper, and higher ftraine, than the moft men, and the greater part of the World:You mufi be 6ngular,and lhineas Lighu amid a naughtie an~ crooked generation. Hence is it, that Gods children ever were, and everwill be, signts and wonder.rJ Miraclu andMonHers, in· the opinion and ccnfi.ue of moft,amongftwbom they live; gazing. fiockes, both by reproaches . and affiitl:iom, He~. to . 33. Bel:o/el (fairh l[11i~h, Ch11p.8. I 8.) J and the children whom the Lord k"th 1/1)(11
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