Jerusalems glory breaking forth into the world being a Scripture-discovery of the New-Testament Church…

Now every one that makes but any profession of Religion, O they should labour to walk exactly, and humbly, and faithfully, and conscionably, that ⟨p. 112⟩they may win others, and so others being won by their conversation, why then the People of the Land might join together, and say, Well, verily it is these are the servants of the living God, and we will join with them, and set up their ways, for we see them to be the ways of God; I, this were very hopeful, that Jerusalem were lifting up indeed; if so be we would convince men by our holy conversation: But now when there appears so much folly and baseness of Spirit in those that are Professors, why it makes men hate Religion more than ever they did; and indeed, but that we know God can bring the greatest good out of the greatest Evil, one would think that there were as great a stop to the glory of the Church in these times, as ever there was, but woe to those that are the stoppers. And howsoever some cry out, such men stop it, and such men stop it, but the Lord I hope will come ere long, and will make it appear who hinders the glory of his Churches; whether it be those that in the sincerity of their hearts labour to raise up Godliness to the strictest form of all, or those ⟨p. 113⟩that will content themselves with a form.

Now every one that makes but any profession of Religion, O they should labour to walk exactly, and humbly, and faithfully, and conscionably, that ⟨p. 112⟩they may win others, and so others being won by their conversation, why then the People of the Land might joyn together, and say, Well, verily it is these are the servants of the living God, and we will joyn with them, and set up their ways, for we see them to be the ways of God; I, this were very hopeful, that Jerusalem were lifting up indeed; if so be we would convince men by our holy conversation: But now when there appears so much folly and baseness of Spirit in those that are Professors, why it makes men hate Religion more than ever they did; and indeed, but that we know God can bring the greatest good out of the greatest Evil, one would think that there were as great a stop to the glory of the Church in these times, as ever there was, but wo to those that are the stoppers. And howsoever some cry out, such men stop it, and such men stop it, but the Lord I hope will come e're long, and will make it appear who hinders the glory of his Churches; whether it be those that in the sincerity of their hearts labour to raise up Godliness to the strictest form of all, or those