Comely as Jerusalem.] In process of time the Church wore out the suspicion and disgrace of heresy, and separation and rebellion, and was countenanced and adorned by Royal Laws in the days of King Edward the sixth, and by Laws of the Empire tolerating the Protestant Princes, so that the Church seemed as Jerusalem, the state of Princes, the true ⟨p. 176⟩Church of God,1 & at unity also within it self, wherein the comeliness consisted: for, as Jerusalem had been three Cities, Zion, Salem, Millo, and all three were knit together into one Jerusalem: so the three differences between Lutherans & Calvinists in doctrine and discipline at Geneva, were all compacted together in brotherly love, in their harmony of confessions.
Comely as Jerusalem.] In processe of time the Church wore out the suspition and disgrace of heresie, and separation and rebellion, and was countenanced and adorned by Royall Lawes in the daies of King Edward the sixth, and by Lawes of the Empire tolerating the Protestant Princes, so that the Church seemed as Jerusalem, the state of Princes, the true ⟨p. 176⟩Church of God,1 & at unity also within it selfe, wherein the comelinesse consisted: for, as Jerusalem had been three Cities, Zion, Salem, Millo, and all three were knit together into one Jerusalem: so the three differences between Lutherans & Calvinists in doctrine and discipline at Geneva, were all compacted together in brotherly love, in their harmony of confessions.
- 1Psal. 12. 2, 3—5.
