,_ on D6ves : Thus Gods Dove, Gods Church is 1 ufed. · , . Hur,W/Jasdefenceht~thGodsfOOre ~htJrch?why ·. no defence: But : Firfi,jlight, eveft as the iDove hath nothil!lg : but f11ghr, it bath no talents .to wotuJ.,d, hu~ ir ' ·hath flight : fo we are to .fly .t0 God as,toour mountaine, fly to the JrkethatGed tnay ta.ke us in. The Churc.h of God bath no other refuge ' but to behoufed in God and Chrift, he is our · ;drke. · . ·Secondly,and.to mourne, as He.zekiah faith of himfelfe, Ifo. 38. He mourned t11 aD'(}ve,andchat· tered like" Crttne. The fi:ate of the Churchof G~d is like the Turtles, to rnourne-inall affiiCli– ons;defertions, andmoldl:ationsofwkked men, .to mourneto God who hearesthe\bernonings of his owne Spirit in theJ1l \; andwoe to all other 1 birds, ·the birds of \'rey, when tbe'Turtludoe mourne (becaufe of their cruelty) it is aprefage ofruine to them, when they forc;e the Turtle to forrow and,mourning. , And then .thirdly, they have anoth~rr~fuge - •Ss ! S.tu.•VII. j I ProV,l8. xo, I • bdides flight and-mourning, which-is to 6t~·ld ,high ftom vermine that W'lluld otherwife molefi them.Infiintl:teacheththem thus toefcapetheir enemiesby building high,and fo to fecure.them· felves : So there is inGods children a,gracious infiinet put, an Antipathy to theenemies of it, which tends to their fafety, in that they mingle notthemfelves:with th~m. And likewife, Gcd ·b _r_e_ed_s_i_n_th_e_m_a_r._am-il-ia-ri-ty_w ___ ic_h_h_im-fe_I~_e, __ an_d_ ____ \.' Rirs
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