CÇodo People o'iftinguifhed f cmOthers. ( 3) i Lewes, language,. habit, priviledges, &c. The Church of Chrifl is feparate anddeftinguifhed from all the refìdueofthe world ; theyare calledout ofthe World, they are at royallPrief#- hood, a chefen generation, apeculiar_people,calledoutofdarhrefie "Pe" Pet.z q, intoA marvellorst light. They are a holypeople unto the Lordtheir p`ut's' God, the Lord their Cod hath taken them to be a ffeciall people unto himfelfe, above ail the people that are upon the face ofthe earth : Ada they are -diffinguifhed from all otherpeople by their Originall, they are borne of God ; by their Countrey , they are Citizens of the new }erufalem j by their language, they fpeake the language of Canaan, God bath returned to them apure language By their habit,they put on righteeufnef fe asa garment, their adorning isnot the puttingon ofgold, or plaitingof the haire, but the adorningof the hidden manof the heart : To be glorious within is their choife, and fpcciall or- nament; they are d iftinguifhed from others as the living from the dead, as thevine from the thorne, as the lambe from the wolf, as light from darkneffe : God is their God, and they are his children, and they havepriviledges which no other people have befides them. 7. In refpeti of unity. A còmmon-wealth confifling of many particular perfons, makes but one politicke boly. All true beleevers ,rebut one niyfficall body in.Chrift ; therefore the Church is called One. My beloved (frithChrif) is one, and there is one body, and one s` irit (faith the Apoflle) one Calling, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptifme, one GodandFa- ther of for all. TheChurch is of one Lord, byone Baptisme, intoone myflicall body, underone head, ruled by one spirit, bound with onebondof hope and love, profeiling onefaith, and called with one Calling, to-one heavenly Kingdome, built upon the foundation of one Doélrine.As one (Jule doth quicken the many members of the body : fo the Spirit cloth animate and enliven the whole Church. As in one Pome- granate there are many kernels within one rinde : foBoth one Church containe innumerable people, through the unity of faith; having one Father regenerating them, one 4irit en livening' them, one light guiding them, one rituallfootti sfi nourishing them , one Law binding them , and one Head f Dd 2 ruling
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