The monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomized together with a description of the heavenly and…The monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomizd together with a description of the heavenly and…

3. It is not drawn up by way of prediction, what should happen in the last and worst times of the world, but by way of Declaration, what was practised in the Apostles days when the Church of Christ was a Virgin Church, flourishing in all its beauty and glory, whilst the blood of Christ was yet warm, and Christians by this warm blood were soldered together in Love and Unity, whilst it was the golden age of ⟨p. 2⟩the Church, even in the Apostles days, All men sought their own, and not the things of Jesus Christ. Had these words been a Prophecy of our times, which are the last and worst times, the iron age of the Church, in which it is crumbled into a thousand fractions, it had been no wonder; but to charge them upon the Primitive Apostolical times, that in the infancy of Christianity, all men should seek their own, and not the things of Christ, this makes the complaint not only very true, and very heinous, but also very strange and wonderful.

3. It is not drawn up by way of prediction, what should happen in the last and worst times of the world, but by way of Declaration, what was practised in the Apostles dayes when the Church of Christ was a Virgin Church, flourishing in all its beauty and glory, whilest the blood of Christ was yet warm, and Christians by this warm blood were sodered together in Love and Unity, whilest it was the golden age of ⟨p. 2⟩the Church, even in the Apostles dayes, All men sought their owne, and not the things of Jesus Christ. Had these words been a Prophecy of our times, which are the last and worst times, the iron age of the Church, in which it is crumbled into a thousand fractions, it had been no wonder; but to charge them upon the Primitive Apostolicall times, that in the infancy of Christianity, all men should seek their owne, and not the things of Christ, this makes the complaint not onely very true, and very heinous, but also very strange and wonderfull.

4. The charge it self in its own nature, is higher than any other in all Saint Pauls Epistles, and (if I be not mistaken) I may truly call it, the blackest bill of indictment, that was ever drawn up against the pure primitive Apostolical age; which that we may the better understand, we must consider,