Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the ancient…Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the antient…

Sir, have we Gentiles a Worldly Sanctuary, a holy external Temple, a Land flowing with Milk and Honey, a Political Government and Governors from among our selves as we are a Gospel-Church by God's Ordination, as the Jews had? Are we under the Promises of heaping up Gold and Silver, and if we are obedient to live in Peace, and to be saved from our external Enemies, for many such like Privileges and Promises the Jews and their Children had under the Law? The truth is, your External, Federal Holiness, Root and Olive-Tree will-afford but little Fatness either to our selves or Children, considered distinct and apart from Spiritual Blessings and Holiness. What is a simple external Profession good for, without true Grace and a saving Interest in Christ, and Assurance of Eternal Life? What more doth it serve to do than to blind and deceive the Souls of such external and carnal Professors? What is an Ordinance without the God of the Ordinance? What is the Sign without the Thing signified? What is the Lamp without Oil, or a Cabinet without the Jewel, or a Shell without a Kernel, or the Name of a Christian without the true Nature of a Christian?

Sir, have we Gentiles a Worldly Sanctuary, a holy external Temple, a Land flowing with Milk and Honey, a Political Government and Governours from among our selves as we are a Gospel-Church by God's Ordination, as the Jews had? Are we under the Promises of heaping up Gold and Silver, and if we are obedient to live in Peace, and to be saved from our external Enemies, for many such like Privileges and Promises the Jews and their Children had under the Law? The truth is, your External, Federal Holiness, Root and Olive-Tree will-afford but little Fatness either to our selves or Children, considered distinct and apart from Spiritual Blessings and Holiness. What is a simple external Profession good for, without true Grace and a saving Interest in Christ, and Assurance of Eternal Life? What more doth it serve to do than to blind and deceive the Souls of such external and carnal Professors? What is an Ordinance without the God of the Ordinance? What is the Sign without the Thing signified? What is the Lamp without Oil, or a Cabinet without the Jewel, or a Shell without a Kernel, or the Name of a Christian without the true Nature of a Christian?