A discourse concerning evangelical love, church-peace and unity with the occasions and reasons of…

And the things whereof we have discoursed, comprise our. Thoughts concerning those Societies of Christians, whose degeneracy from their primitive Rule and Institution is most manifest and notorious. Whilst there is any Profession of the Gospel, any subjection of Souls unto Jesus Christ avowed, or any expectation of help from him continued among them, we cannot but hope that there are in all of them, at least some few Names that are written in the Lambs Book of Life, and which shall be saved eternally: For as a Relation unto a particular visible Church walking according to the Order and Rule of the Gospel, is the Duty of every Believer to give himself up unto; as that which is a means appointed and sanctified to the furtherance of his Edification and Salvation; so where it cannot be obtained through invincible outward Impediments, or is omitted through ignorance of Duty, or is on just Causes refused where opportunities make a tender of it; or where the being and benefit ⟨p. 84⟩of it is lost through the Apostasy of those Churches whereunto any persons did belong, the utter want of it, and that always, is not such as necessarily infers the eternal loss of their Souls who suffer under it.

And the things whereof we have discoursed, comprize our. Thoughts concerning those Societies of Christians, whose degeneracy from their primitive Rule and Institution is most manifest and notorious. Whilst there is any Profession of the Gospel, any subjection of Souls unto Jesus Christ avowed, or any expectation of help from him continued among them, we cannot but hope that there are in all of them, at least some few Names that are written in the Lambs Book of Life, and which shall be saved eternally: For as a Relation unto a particular visible Church walking according to the Order and Rule of the Gospel, is the Duty of every Believer to give himself up unto; as that which is a means appointed and sanctified to the furtherance of his Edification and Salvation; so where it cannot be obtained through invincible outward Impediments, or is omitted through ignorance of Duty, or is on just Causes refused where opportunities make a tender of it; or where the being and benefit ⟨p. 84⟩of it is lost through the Apostasie of those Churches whereunto any persons did belong, the utter want of it, and that alwayes, is not such as necessarily infers the eternal loss of their Souls who suffer under it.