Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

1. The thing not to be forsaken, imports either, 1. Our own Conventions for public Worship; in the general, our open meeting together, as an Organized Congregation: Or Assembly wherein Pastors and their Flocks assemble statedly to speak to God, and to hear from him, and Sacramentally to eat and drink before him; and so to recognize and represent our Christian state with all solemnity in open view together. Or, 2. Doing this without dividing distances and separations each from other, under the notion of Jew and Gentile, or of persons differing each from other about difficult or trifling things. 3. Or our gathering others unto the Church of Christ, by our orderly and alluring Carriage, in this and other points of Christianity; and so the additions, which hereafter God will make hereto. Or 4. The great Assembly of the completed, and Triumphant Church of Christ in the great day of his Appearance and Kingdom, ii Thes. ii. 1. The only place that I remember in the New Testament, besides my Text, that this Noun occurs: And in that place the Word (as here it is) being a decompound, it fitly may be rendered an after Synagogue, or gathering, and how far thus rendering it in the Text is countenanced by the last clause; [that day] I here determine not.

1. The thing not to be forsaken, imports either, 1. Our own Conventions for publick Worship; in the general, our open meeting together, as an Organized Congregation: Or Assembly wherein Pastours and their Flocks assemble statedly to speak to God, and to hear from him, and Sacramentally to eat and drink before him; and so to recognize and represent our Christian state with all solemnity in open view together. Or, 2. Doing this without dividing distances and separations each from other, under the notion of Jew and Gentile, or of persons differing each from other about difficult or trifling things. 3. Or our gathering others unto the Church of Christ, by our orderly and alluring Carriage, in this and other points of Christianity; and so the additions, which hereafter God will make hereto. Or 4. The great Assembly of the compleated, and Triumphant Church of Christ in the great day of his Appearance and Kingdom, ii Thes. ii. 1. The only place that I remember in the New Testament, besides my Text, that this Noun occurs: And in that place the Word (as here it is) being a decompound, it fitly may be rendred an after Synagogue, or gathering, and how far thus rendring it in the Text is countenanced by the last clause; [that day] I here determine not.