The fountain opened, or, The great gospel privilege of having Christ exhibited to sinful…The fountain opened, or, The great gospel priviledge of having Christ exhibited to sinfull…

4. Those to whom it is thus to be dispensed, live mixed among other men. It is Gods good pleasure, that his Chosen shall be scattered up and down in the World, and have their dwelling among those that are his Enemies; he therefore calls them from the Lions dens, and from the mountains of the Leopards, Cant. 4. 8. There are indeed some places in the world that are wholly in darkness, and we know not of any of those that are given to Christ among them; but in other places they dwell one with another; in some places there are ⟨p. 52⟩more, in others there are fewer of these, b• there are no places where Christ hath a Se• but there are wicked men dwelling with th• Godly. The Apostle therefore tells us, th• we must go out of the world, if we would •• wholly separated from such, 1 Cor. 5. 10. An• we are acquainted that God hath some, who• he will sooner or later make sharers in th• benefit, in every Nation; Rev. 5. 9. Thou •• redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of ever• kindred and tongue, and people, and nation. T• tares and the wheat must grow together till th• end of the world; then will a separation b• made between the one and the other, an• not till then, Mat. 13. 40, 41. And these n• only dwell together in one City or Town but oftentimes they live in the same house and lie in the same bed,