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n the inidvt of uj speculating like politicians, arguing like sdGsl and ungodly lookers on, without feeling that wi have any care, or that our God bath any care coneem In the whole matter "Whereas it ia hti doing, and it is^ all done by him for the sake his church. And bow hath this indifference ti his working in the world for the church cui Vr^ OH TH K T£K TRt SIS. I 193 about, if it be ui>t from ondcrraluing Uie study md the diKTourse of hii formerdoin^ in the world and the church, which hare been all written ftml ialer|)ret^d by the Itoly Spirit, for our learning, that we, ihrough patie&ce and comfort of the Scriptures, inif^ht haTohope? And what hath bflon the coniiequonce of such mdlHcrcncc to this ouV^ ward ob^rratiOQ of how (ictd rulctb amongst tM nations, aod how he jadgcth in the great congre- gation? Thi«i hath beeo tb« consequence^, that we Iiwve vliikuHt rurm>Itei> th<^r« i« 4 church ni all ; and the apostasy in the church we have lost the faculty of dijcemmg: Christ and the belioveMhtll' It all. Christ in flc«h, and Christ in us, that is the whole Mjbstancc of our theology, theorciical and pfaeticjd. Hut i^ U>at at! ? No, thi& lackt^th the Tloly Spirit, and the chnreh wlitcb is bis temple. The elcclion, according to grace, which are the body of Christ, and the outward visibie church, against which wrath is heaped ap and horrid judgments written. The Communion of Saints, the Holy Cathohc Church, arc dead letters in the Creed: their meaning is understood, their comfort ia felt no more. Save himself who can t ami work the mo^t you cun \ These are all the practical idea*, if 1 may call ihem ideas ; bnt they are, the former a selfish instinct, and the latter the spirit, the bustling spirit, of worldly business, which hlleth.posseaseth.andruleth overall things. And will churches erer thus be built upT will the swetfi influence of lore thus descend tike dow on Hermon ? will a national church ever thus be t^^ formed, or a fast ap<h<tatiKinj^ nation saved I Nct^r while the world la-stA, never while the word of God is fiiithful, never while the HolySpirit work* 4 K J 194 THZ KIN05 OF THE EAST. [ eth through ih^. a|i|)i>int^d 0f(lin3iic«& and fellowi abip orthecliurcfa. Now, hreUirun^ I fcci ualc! a Z61lI ctirring up my soul to search into God't mystery of providence by h\^ church aud world, than the desire <>f rcdccmiDg my mintsti from a disgrace that 1 feel it to underlie, «ih1 yoi fmin a sXate of ignorance, in which, I make doubt, you are a& williikg as 1 am to coolness yoon sel