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'Chap. V. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 217 s. " Becaufe of God's commandment to go forward to perfeEtion, Ileb. Queen " vi. I. 2 Cor. vii. I. Palm lxxxiv. 1. Ephef iv. 15. Alfo to avoid them, Elizabeth, " Rom. xvi. 17. Ephef. V. I I, I. The: V. 22. r 2. " Becaufe they are an abomination before the Lord our God, Deut. " xxvil. 25, 26. and xiii. 17. Ezek. xiv. 6. 3. " I will not beautify with my prefence thofe filthy rags, which bring " the heavenly word of the E TERNAL our Lord God into bondage, fub- jeftion, and flavery. q.. " Becaufe I wouldnot communicate with other mens fins, john ii. 9, Io, 11. t Cor. vi. 17. Touch no unclean thing, &c. Sirach xiii. s. 5. " They give offence both to preacher and hearers, Rom. xvi. 17. " Luke xvi. 1. 6. " They glad and ftrengthen the papifts in their errors, and grieve the " godly, Ezek. xiii. 21, 22. Note this 21/l verfi. 7. " Theydo perfecute our Saviour Jefus Chrift in his members, AtIs ix. " 4, 5. 2 Cor. i. 5. Alfo they reject and defpife our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, Luke x. 16. Moreover, thofe labourers, whoat the prayer " of the faithful, the Lord bath fent forth into his harveft, they refufe " and alto rejeft, Matth. ix. 38. 8. " Thefe popifh garments are now become very idols indeed, becaufe " they are exalted above the word of the Almighty. 9. " I come not to them becaufe they fhould be afhamed, and fo leave " their idolatrous garments, &c. 2 The.. iii. 14. Ifany man obey not our " ° fayings, note him. " ° Moreover, I have now joined myfelfto the church of Chrift, wherein. " I have yielded myfelf fubjet to the difcipline of God's word, as I pro- " mifed at my baptifm, which if I fhould now again forfake, and join " myfelf with their traditions, I fhould forfake the union wherein I am " knit to the body of Chrift, and join myfelf to the difcipline of anti- " chrift ; for in the church of the Traditionaries, there is no other difci- pline, than that which has been maintained by the antichriftian popeof " Rome, whereby the church of God has always been affliEted, and is " until this day, for the which caufe I refufe them. " God give us grace Rill to ftrive in fuffering under the crois, that the " blefl'ed word of our God may only rule, and have the higheft place, " ° to call down prong holds, to de/lroy or overthrow policy, or imaginations, " and every high thing that is exalted againfl the knowledge of God, and °` to bring into captivity or fubjeñlion, every thought to the obedience of " Chr, 2 Cor. x. 4, 5. That the name and word of the ETERNAL " our Lord God may be exalted, and magnified above all things, Pfalm viii. z. Finis. Vox- I. F f To

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