Stablishing against shaking

But if Mason had well understood the Original word [Greek or Hebrew] here rendered perfecting, he might have known that the word is translated by others, For the gathering together of Saints, by others, the Coagmentation, joining, gluing together of Saints, to Christ by faith, to the body by love: not noting the perfection of the growth, but such a perfection, as when a body hath all its members. He adds presently for the Edifying of the body of Christ. What need of Edifying when there is complete perfection, so that till this Mystical body have all its Members, the Ministry must last. When a body hath all its Members, none wanting, broken, or out of joint, yet then those Members must grow.

But if Mason had well understood the Originall word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 here rendered perfecting, he might have known that the word is translated by others, For the gathering together of Saints, by others, the Coagmentation, joyning, gluing together of Saints, to Christ by faith, to the body by love: not noting the perfection of the growth, but such a perfection, as when a body hath all its members. He addes presently for the Edifying of the body of Christ. What need of Edifying when there is compleat perfection, so that till this Mysticall body have all its Members, the Ministery must last. When a body hath all its Members, none wanting, broken, or out of joynt, yet then those Members must grow.

If he will fetch his strength from the 13. v. a perfect man, &c. ⟨p. 40⟩and that perfect man, to be meant of every singular believer, to what I have said before about perfection, I add, we acknowledge there are thousands (through mercy) of perfect men, in England, as perfect is opposed to children tossed to and fro in ver. 14. saints who stand so unmovable, and firm, that all the winds of Quakers and other Heretics doctrines cannot shake them here upon earth.