"The Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness
of thy rising." The light and beauty of this city, these only shall
engage their hearts and overcome them.
Indeed, if any shall, out of mistrust or enmity against this city
and her prosperity, bend themselves to disappoint the designs of the
eternal God concerning her building and glory, then they must take
what follows. Her God in the midst of her is mighty; he will rest in
his love, and rejoice over her with singing, and will UNDO all that
afflict her. Wherefore, associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye
shall he broken in pieces; for God is with us.
WARNING TO THE PROFESSOR.
He that sins himself out of the church, can find no good in the
world; and they that have sinned God out, can find no good in the
church. A church that has sinned God away from it, is a sad lump
indeed. You, therefore, that are in God's church, take heed of
sinning yourselves out thence; also take heed, that while you keep
in, you sin not God away, for thenceforth no good is there. "Yea,
woe unto them when I depart from them, saith the Lord."
CHURCH-ORDER.
It is hard to have all things according to rule in the day of the
church's affliction, because of the weakness and fearfulness of
some, and because possibly those who have most skill in that matter
may for a time be laid up in chains.
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