T he fin/ulne/Je of LSinne, 3ZI from the inequality of Chriftians and unbeleevers, Be not yee unequally yoked with unbeleevers,yer.74. It bath á relation ro thz. Law of (A/toles, which prohibited to plow with an Oxe and an Affe, cr to put into one yoke things difproportionable. Secondly, from their contra- 'riety, and by confequence uncommunicablene ffe to each 1 other, there is as everlafiing and unreconciliable an ha- tred betweene Chi and Bella!, righteoufiee fe and un- righteoufnejre,as betweene light and darlçne fle,ver.14. I S. Thirdly trom thole precious and excellent Tromfts which are made to Chriltians, they are the Temples of God, his people, and peculiar inheritance, hce is their Fa- ther, and they his Sonnet and danghters, vrrfe 16.17,18. And there are many reafons in this one argument drawn from the Promilès to inferre the Apoftles conclufion. Firfl, by that unction and confecration whereby they are made Temples unto God,they areleparated from pro - faneufes, defigned to Divine and more noble employ- ments, foaled and let apart for God Himfelfe, and there - fòre they mitt not be profaned by the uncleane touch of evil! fociety. Secondly by being Gods Temples, they are lifted to a new 1lation, the eyes of men and Angels are upon them, they offend the weake, they blemilh and deface their Chritlian reputation, they jultifie, comfort, encourage, fettle the wicked in their finfull courfes, by a deepe policy of the deceitefull heart of man, apt to build ungrounded prefumptions of fafety to it felfe, by the fe!- lowiliip of filch whom it conceives to be in a good condi- tion. Thirdly, they involve themfelves in the common calamities With thole with whom they communicate. If Ifrael had not feparated themfelves from lEg,ypt by the blood. of the Pafchal l Lambe , but bad communicated with them in their Idólatry, they Ihould have felt the (word of the deflroyingAngell in their houfes, as well as the Egyptians. If upon hostility betweene nations,war- ning be given by an adverfary to all ftrangers to voyde Y the Difeanua ex {lac parteJan- Clam /'uperbiam, / ° Zamd!? nos P rlpcs meliore.r, Hierotn. Ep, Pfalm. 4.3. Greg. S'holof, de Repub.' lib. 11.
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