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So it was in the Primitive times, they were very hard times for Gods people, and the people of God, and Christians were discovered by their meetings together; if so be all of them would have separated one from another, and kept their Religion to themselves, they might not have been discovered, but though it were with hazard of their lives, they would join together, and meet together; and therefore when any was converted, it is said, they were added to the Church. And S. Paul, Heb. 10. 25. lays a charge upon them, though it were at such a time as they hazarded their lives, Not to forsake the assembly of the Saints, as the manner of some is. And Mr. Calvin in a Sermon upon that Text, Seek ye my face, interpreting it thus, The face of God is Gods Ordinances; as a man is known by his face, so God maketh himself known in his Ordinances; and so he urges that place, Seek my face, that all Christians in conscience are bound to go where Gods Ordinances may be enjoyed, if possibly they can: And he says further, It is better they should scrape the ground with their nails, then to be any where else, where they should not join with Gods people in the ways of his Ordinances. Certainly, it is a great blessing to be with them, though upon ⟨p. 246⟩never such hard terms in regard of afflictions.

So it was in the Primitive times, they were very hard times for Gods people, and the people of God, and Christians were discovered by their meetings together; if so be all of them would have separated one from another, and kept their Religion to themselves, they might not have been discovered, but though it were with hazard of their lives, they would joyn together, and meet together; and therefore when any was converted, it is said, they were added to the Church. And S. Paul, Heb. 10. 25. lays a charge upon them, though it were at such a time as they hazarded their lives, Not to forsake the assembly of the Saints, as the maner of some is. And Mr. Calvin in a Sermon upon that Text, Seek ye my face, interpreting it thus, The face of God is Gods Ordinances; as a man is known by his face, so God maketh himself known in his Ordinances; and so he urges that place, Seek my face, that all Christians in conscience are bound to go where Gods Ordinances may be enjoyed, if possibly they can: And he says further, It is better they should scrape the ground with their nails, then to be any where else, where they should not ioyn with Gods people in the ways of his Ordinances. Certainly, it is a great blessing to be with them, though upon