272r VERSE2. The Churchofthe levees ......fsw.w.../M aw....1.0.4* V.ten**1/0..elm, for wehave heard that God is with you. The Church of leru laical was let up as abeacon, or an enfigne or a publike fan6luary to which the nations fhould die, as doves to their windowes.Ofthis merciful purpofe fume evidences and declarations the Lord gave before in 'Ra- flab, leb,Ninive, the Wife-men, andothers, who were thepreludes and firfl Fruits of the Gentiles unto God : and did after fully manifeft the fame in his unlimited conirniffion tohis Apoliles, Goe preach the Goffiell unto every creature. And now alas, what were we that God fhouldbring us hitherto ? Saint P4/1/ faith that we wcrefilledwith aff tenrighteoufivefe; that wedid neither underftand God, nor lecke after him. All our faculties were full of fume, and the fulneffe ofall tinne was in us; wewere ruled by no lawes but the courfe of the world, the Prince of the aire,and the lulls ofthe flelb,without God in this world, and without any hope for the world to come., Here vef- felsof lull andpoyfon,and.fitted to be hereafter wife's ofdefiruaion andmifery.We were no nation, a foolifb people,a people that fought not,nor inquired after God; and yet hisovvnepeople bath he fit by andcalled us to the knowledge of his love and mercie in And that, not as manyother Gentiles are called, who beate of him indeed, and vvoribiphim, but have his do nine corrupted and overturned with heretic, and his worfhip defiled with fuperflitionand idolatry; but hee bath for us purged his floore, and given unto us the wheat with= out thechaffe, he bath let the light ofhis glory to Chine purely upon us onely in the face ofIefus Chritl, without any humane fupplements,or contribucions.How fhould wepraife him, for it, and as wee have received Chrift purely,fo labour to walk worthily inhim ? HowMould we runne tohim that called us when we kneWhim not How fhould we let forward, and call upon one another, that we may Elie like doves in companies unto the win- dowes
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