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aud the alter- native of returning unto ttie Lord. Aud we do pray and eatr^ai you that you would not any longer »er\'e Uic Lord by double ways, but cleave .unto Uim with all your heart and £oul ; and have a good hope for the land, and encourage them \ but, ah^ they need little eacouragemeo&p beiaf; lifted up with vain confidence and glory. The church hidetJi and confesfneth not; «hc covcreth tad dcclarcth not her infirmity. And the n&tiob is lifted up iu ita might, and full of its atrengtli: Slid there is everywhere a apinl of glorying, but aot ill God, which needelh to be repressed. p. Fourthly, Let U9 observe God> ti$e of his peo- ple, UtOLt we may understand our calling. When a church wa^ called out by the Holy Spirit it wan east almoftt immediately into controveray wiUt tha power of 8atan: it wa^ culled to warfare and IQQl Oa THE 7EI« TRtAKS. 1180 militancy. Ertry miui Wfts a soldier, and thehigb^' e«t offices were ihc most dangeroufi offices in thtf service ; and every one of the leaders and oom- muidexs of the peoplt? clii-erfid)y &bcd lik blood for the righteous and holy cause, Soree indeed at- tempted a league^ and they canted Peter and James also avray with tbeirditisiinulati<»n-. but only for a momeat^ and during at) thia century the bcresi<:s which nrofn^i in the cl^urch vrere an filloy of Judaism with CbriKtianity. But nil xhv^e at-^ tempts at atnalgamaiioD were abortive, erroneous ID principle, and in issue most calamitous, dia* honourable to Chtiat, aod dcstractive orholtne^M; teaching ua that there can he no feHowithip be* (wt-ien a inie and an ajiosttite church. Now, aee- ing that we never doubt but that there is an ap<K fttasy in the Christian church, even now present, which I think, since the Reformation, and by the Reformation, haUi been declared to be the Papacy, by the manifestt finger of God, I do clearly per^ cirire that we arc called out, and mattitained of God for the very end of ccvntcndtng againftt the £ame, and ^varrinq: a ^ood v'arftire umo the last. And aeeing that in the absence of such a faithfiit witness, there hatti grown up an apostasy among:st our5elvcs, which I call the Socmian or Unitarian, or, if you please, the liberal and Tnfidel, we are culled upon especially to testify againjtl the same. And he who doth so tlie most eflectually, vhall have the greateitt favour in the i^ight of Uod ; not for alliances and compmmiscs, but for bold and resolute resistance unto the dtath. This is the use Oodmaketh of the church, to testify agarnM Satan everywhere, but