I • • 68 qhe conjirmt"ng Work mofi firm and entire.Unity amongft all · ' the Followers of. , C~nft on the Earth.· II. rfhat no Oppofition is made there– to, but what bath been foretold; as one · of the greate{t Trials of the Church un. der the New Teftatnent, and the Spirit . -of GOD doth. rn?ft exprefly point at in thefe ·latt 1 er Tunes. · . Ill. Becaufe the· fur~heft Oppofition thereto~ can be no .1nqre Caufe for any to ftumble, or que(!1on the Truth b"'f"this Demonfiration, than whether there is a · Devil, . whofe greatefi Defign bath ever been to divide and break Chriftians .a– mongft themfel ves. IV. Becaufe this Union, ·\vhich is .chiefly, myftical and invifible, is much greater often, than what this Way may ~q)pear t~ the 'Y orld, ,and and ~f that Kind, as Is not Interrupted by Dti1ance of Place, or any. want of local Corn- . 1TIU111011. V. That fucb a Guard is fet by .the Lord, ~nto this Piece of his Glory, ·to oppofe any Invafion thereon, that there ftands an Angel with a fia!ning Sword, _upqn ev~ry Hand in th~ Cointnands an~ Threatntngs of the Gofpel, to fecure th1s i ... blefied Unity of the Saints a1nong the-tn· -- , !~Ives~ I I ,.
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