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But 1.¹ we are speaking here but of a visible Church, a people or kingdom in external Communion with God, a mixed multitude of professors, the major part whereof for want of root in themselves, (with the stony ground) may make a total and final Apostasy from the worship, truths, and commands of the living God, to Idolatry, Heresy, and Profaneness; and go a whoring from God, so as never to return to him again.

But 1.¹ we are speaking here but of a visible Church, a people or kingdom in external Communion with God, a mixt multitude of professors, the major part whereof for want of root in themselves, (with the stony ground) may make a total and final Apostacy from the worship, truths, and commands of the living God, to Idolatry, Heresie, and Prophaness; and go a whoring from God, so as never to return to him again.

1. 1Answ.

Formal and ungrounded profession is the road to final defection and Apostasy.

Formal and ungrounded profession is the road to final defection and Apostacy.

2. Yea secondly, even of them who are living members of the invisible Church, who are betrothed unto Jesus Christ in an everlasting Covenant, even among these may be some, who for want of a discerning eye, of Spiritual watchfulness, may for a time, and in some degree, be carried away with the error of the wicked, ¹