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espeinally against Satan in the church : and I do exhort you with all my 1190 THE KIVO& Itr THR KABT, f^^ might to doeo. For then hm you luinK well your prosem portioD, and yon may look to h&\e u ia due time etilargcd and iDcrcased. Fifthly, 1 entreat you to obserrfi the rich re- w^ of his people's faith and piit>ciic« iti Kubvert- iDf^, by thar meatis, tliu enurmous wicktdncsH into wbioh that Jewish nation had turned. How At leog:th, af\or making manifest ^hat au abomi- nable thin; an apo^tany ia. by the cruelties which it cat! inflict rj]>oi; thctrucchurcb.hcdid atleugth case the earth nf it& groaning iniqutty. For, U' wo can believe the Jewish hitttoriAn Jo$epliu», there was DO such seat of wickedness upon all tbeeartk as Jerusalem; proving the truth of the old pro- verb, that the corruption of Uic bti^t thing h al- ways the wor«t kind of corruption. Which 1 take to be the case with these two citiea of Home and Fari«i; wh^^reuf thcfurmor i« the head of iho Papal, and ttie latter was the head of the luhdel apof^taay. And it ia diligently to be ob«crvod, wliac a deli- verance God gave unto hU church, in thu mighty overthrow, who were previounly ^'athercd oulof Jt into tbe town of Pclla, where they remained, as in a uesL nf safely, in the mi^lst of the atorm of fire and blood. Whi'rcby. I think, we arc taught that the part of the churcb who suffer pa- tiently for righteousiiCM sake, will a& ttur<^y bo delivered* as wilt that which yieldeth to uorigbtc- 0UJSUC5« be de^lroyrd : the w]i<rat gathered inlA the gamier, when the laren are contiiin^d. Tbia ought to be a very comfortable reflectioa lo the tflrranu of God amon^t u&, whom he hath anab- led to discern the apoala»y. to continue patiently to witness, and to autfcr for thii» witucad, and, Dotwilhataudiug their nuticnnga, to wi^Mi tHrj VL] OH THt T£K THlBJHAai tl91 uutil the CQ<1. and look for <lGUv<;mDCc in the day that the Lord visits wiib judgment. I can auure you, bre-Lhren, ihjtt the v-tni wbicb li;ith gone forth towardi the heathonp gives us tar less delight ibaii it doth to many otbert ; becautve it h^ith Dot been accompaDitid v;ith ft greater 2«al ai^QBt ihc two fornns of the apostasy m the church, but rathor, on Lhc othtr hanti, with a progressive indiifercnce to the matter* in dispute, and leaning towards the error. For> he &»»ured thai the judgment will begin at the house of God now as it did tlien> The Jewish apostasy was visited before the pagan idolatry was visited : and eo now the Papacy and the ln6dclity will both be consum