l i Gods children 1 ar.e b\lt few. i. ' l I '!, I 'The Saints Jure · -------- ' an&'gazed upo.n,, as fl:range creatures. wee are made ('fayth Paul, 1-Cor. 4· '9• ineaning birn- · felfe ,, and .other of- Gods faith full fervants.) a· gazing-floc·ke untrJ the world, and to the Angels, . · and to men. Arid ·no rnarvell though it be fo: · · For,.beficles that all propbane and unregenerate mea are na:tutally ineagered, a-nd imageel with . implacable malice and hatred againfl: Gods Children ; · they are, in al~ places , but few in:. number ; which makes th~m more noted, and; pointed. at·. ' ,, ' . . . . That .they ·are ·but .few; beudes· many cer– taine demonfhative Reafons out of Scripture: 3 · ir may thus plainely appeare : ~s a goqd Divin'c tells us. . ,. . ~ Firft, let there be taken ··ft'0tn atndngfl: us, . all Papiil:s; Arheifts~ and fcomets Gf goqlineffe> ' and Religion. · · , . Secondly, let there.be,removed all nowrious . · and infamous -evillllvers .· as $\vearers,· Drlm- . ' il' bm.+s,\iVhoremoilgers,V'farers, W~rldlings, Del cei\·<,!rs, proud pcrfons, propl·1aners of the Sabb<Hh) Garneil:crs, and all the propbane and ignorant multiwde. r . •• . ' • , Third·ty , Jet -a11 thofc be:paffc.d overrtha't are · bmondy civill honcfl: rncn,;1:nd meddle not with ; any. profeffion, or-praetife ofho~ineJfe; .without 1 whtcb,nomao muflfee ·God. · · Fourthly, fct -afide.al.l groffc Hypocrites; who for adv~Ultage, or by-refpecrs, are ounvardJy reli- . gio_us,·but inwardly corrupr,.!1ollow.;.hearted,.and · abominable. . - . · F:i(thiy,. .
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