/ ~~-~~--~~~---·--------------------~ ·~JS t :Q F T H E ..---"----...-..,... ' ' ' '' ' " ··-····---. ' - 1 fitter condition, and it farregoes beyond ail o. · Nott<Jtake fcandall at the low cllateof theCliurcb. ' . ·th~rtcrnporall felicitie; that rcachetl:t not to the,inward man, it makes not him' that is the GQveniour ofthewotld to he l1is friend; other· friends h~ may haue, thar may m.:i.ke him potetl~ upon the .earth, but Gad, in whofe hand is– his lift dlld iill his wayes,.it makes not him his friend. Leatne thus to judge·ofthe condition of the Church.You thinke the Church is in a miferable eftate, when you fee it a little under hatches, when you feeitaowne,whenyoufee it harrowe<;I and plowed by the enemies; the cpn– dition ofthe Churchin the new Tefiament is to be fo ;they haue a poore outfide, yet m~tking mttny rich; th~y baue a •forrowfull omfide, thoug~nlwayesrejllycing, as Chrifi hitnfelfe,and ~lltheA_polHes wete herein exempbry for after– Ages ofthe Church, yet we mufl: notthink~,becaufe theChtrrc,h is downe a little, hecaufe it Wants that outwardpro.lpe!'itie that before it en– jo-yed/hattherefo'l·e it is thewo.r(e: It isa true -oBferv~tionofone;When there were but wood . · den Chalices, then there were golden Prielts; andinaftertirne, when therewere golden Cha– lices, theyhad woodden Priet1s: fo it is, when the Churchis in alowercondition, commonly itprofpers bell:; and indeede properly the pro– fperitie of the Church confifrs in thefe better promifes,the outwardpeace is not fo properand peculiar to it. · Andasofthe Church;fo I tnayfayof eve~ ry particular man : Thinke -not with your - felves
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