C B A P.5.6. of the Church,&c. notwithaanding1nlian the e4politt4maybee an exafL ple,againfl whom the Prayersoi; the Church were fim- ply tocut him off. % Seuenthly It is an utter reuolt, not fromChrifl , or any good thingwee haue_ in him , vpon which Rocke, whofocuer is finely built,.the gates. of Hell cannot preuaile againfl him,though tliey may forely (hakehim; but from a loue and t ioy in iorne fweet thing whichyet neuer had roote in their heart. Therefore they that once beleeue in Chrifl , and by faith are rooted in him, can neuer come within the compaf 'eof this finne. With this finne againfl the Holy (;boll, a u final! vn. repentance is vnfeparably ioyned; fo that they which commit it, can neuer come toFaith and Repentance, nor euer be in Chrifl, which maketh it x vnpardonable. C H A P. V. Of the Church tinder the LAW And CHAP.. VI. Of the Church in the time of the ggo/pel. 387 t Mat.13 tO,tT canneuer be repayred. u Hcb.6.6. x Mat.1z.3z,. H E Church is one , and cannot beediui. The Churrch. ded. But according to the difference of is one, and the times, it is to bee diflinguifhed into the cannot bedQ- Church vnder theLaw (l meane the Ce.. aided ;but ha. to remoniall Law, whilefl the romife was t egar p di uerfirie afoot) and theChurch id the time ofthe ofGods dit_ penfation,it may be diflinguifhed into the Church vnder the OldTeflament, and the Church in theNew. That vnder the OldTeflament haddiuers Rites, Ceremonies and Sa- crifices: Figures of Chrift, andof the good things we haue in him. Efpecially a naongthelewes ,histhenpeculiarpeople, whereby the difpenfarion of there times wasmore obfcure, and`iefre accompanied, withKnowledge and other Graces. But.of all thefe things, as a!fo of their Sacraments ( which in regard, of the out- ward Signes, were a part of the Legali Pxd igogie ) and likcwife of the Milsifteries that wereamong them both that of Prophets (i fpired by whom were written, theBookes of the OldTcfument.) and of other, I haue written at large i!-1 a Trea tile intieuled, TheOld Teflament, or The Promit. To the Church of the NewTca..- men; the difpenfation is. in all cleeren :ffe Aid petfelion. Co f
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