to dr'owße SAINTS. 195 vere juPr with thee to cut rice a finder with Hypacrìtes, and fo fling me downe to Hell. R n v'1 Z.: 3.I. Ind art Dead. Hefe words are a part of the Epiftle,7bat Chrii fins to the Mim/ers and Cbnrsh of Sardis. Yee have heard the Infcription, to the Angeli of the Church in S Arke write. Yce have heard too of the Subfcriptios Thefe things faith hee, that hash the fevsn Spirt* of God, And the fevex Storer. Wee are come to the Subje& matter, and therein firíl to the reproofe in generali, } know thy worker : and fecondly,to the particulars of the reproofe. The firft particular was tins, Trott haft A Maple that those liveft : all thefe have been delivered already, now followcs the fecond particular reproofe, And Art dead. Here the qucftion is, what Chria meancs by Dead, By dead, lice does not mcane dead in Errors and liereles, though thefe bee calk(' deadly Poyrons, and may make a Church dead. Forthe trxth is called theword of Life, Phil.a. 16. and wholfome Do&r ne, as the Apoale cals it, and ergo Errors and Herefies,thefe poylon and dead any people that drinke them in. But this cannot bce the meaning here for wee fee no fuch thing here layd to their charge , it fhould feeme this Church was an orthodoxe Church ; nei- ther by Dead , does bee mcane prophetic wicked spanners, though they make a people dead too, as wee fee the pro - digall Sonne that lud Beene given to prophase and diffo- lute courfec Fs Father (ayes, Nee war dud ix thole darer, Luke, i S . ,. ^ . Yet this cannot bee the men Ming neither ; for this t. hutch had a Name to live, and it had this name CC a among i
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