the world So is this Uniformity in actions of Worship also necessarily included in this Apostolical Exhortation to speak the same things and that there be no divisions amongst us Indeed this would be a perfect and blessed Unity for all these three to meet together unity in judgment unanimity of loving affection and uniformity in action and this perfection ought to be both in all our aims and endeavours but if while we faithfully endeavour it in our several places we cannot through our own weakness or others waywardness attain to the full perfection hereof yet pulchrum erit in secundis tertiis ve it will be our comfort and commendation to labour and attain so much after it as possibly we can and therefore nevertheless whereunto we have attained Phil 3.16 let us mind the same things Let us labour after this unity of judgment affection and action I beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions amongst you but that ye strive perfectly to be joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment To quicken you hereunto this being so needful a duty and we all so dull unto it let me offer these following forceable Motives to your serious consideration 1. The seasonableness of the Exhortation for are not these the last and worst days the dregs and Lees of times of which our Saviour prophecied when Christian Love should grow cold which is the Bond of Peace and Satan knowing his time but short should double his diligence in sowing his Tares of cursed contentions in Gods Fold Heb. 10.24 25. â—ude v. 11. the proud and malicious hearts of men being too fruitful soils thereof and of which the Apostle prophesieth and Saint Jude Read the places and see if the men of this Age be not therein exactly described Alas when was the Christian World ever more out of quiet when was Gods Church ever more dangerously rent and torn when was Schismes and Separations ever more greedily and dangerously made and prosecuted when was Gods Church on Earth more Militant or had more Enemies forreign abroad intestine at home more Satanical spirits to hate it more Lucians to scoff at it more Rabshekah's to rail on it or Balaam's to curse it when were there more Atheists to scoff at Religion Ridemur decathimmur saith Tert. more Hereticks to reproach revile and slander it more Schismaticks studying divisions affecting parties carrying up-sides and factions and being out of danger of the Kings Laws and contemning the Churches pious Edicts and Censures like unnatural Children rending and tearing their Mothers Bowels Inimici Domesticiâ— Behold the Churches Foes are those of her own Family Rom. 3.17 her Sons disturb her peace and the way thereof they will not know Mistake me not my design is not to rail or reflect on any sort of men but only to warn you as a faithful Watchman to take heed of these deceitful ways and the very design of this Complaint and Lamentation that there should be such Troublers of Israel abounding amongst us is only to shew the Exhortation in the Text as necessary so seasonable even that we all hearken after the things that make for peace to speak the same things and to avoid if it be possible these divisions amongst us So from the seasonableness pass we 2. To the reasonableness of the Exhortation also and that in almost infinite respects 1. Listen to Gods Commands search the Scriptures Brethren and find any duty if you can more peremptorily commanded more highly commended by the Holy Ghost more frequently pressed by the Prophets and Apostles than this How often doth the Gospel of Peace call upon us to follow peace with all men Eph. 5.16 Heb. 12.14 if it be possible and as much as lyeth in us to live peaceably with all men How much more with Brethren 2 Cor. 13.11 2 Cor. 13.14 2 Tim. 2.23 men of the same Nation and Church and Faith and Religion with our selves for to such it is written Be of one mind live in peace follow Righteousness Faith Charity and Peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart It were endless to give you all the strict Commands of the Gospel to this purpose without obedience to which we are not real but nominal servants of Jesus Christ unless we study Unity and be careful to maintain peace and love and speak the same things and avoid divisions and those that cause them the World may question our Christianity which will further appear in all the following considerations whilst we look upon God whom we pretend to serve and worship 2. It is the Apostles Argument amongst many others Eph. 4.1 2. I the Prisoner of the Lord beseech you that you walk worthy of the Calling wherewith ye are called How With all lowliness and meekness and long-suffering endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace For saith he there is one Body one Spirit one Hope one Lord one God and Father of all There is but one God and great reason then we should endeavour unity and unanimity and uniformity in the worship and service of this one God Those that have several Gods may well have several ways and several forms to worship them as the Marriners in Jonah called every one upon his God When several Gods are afoot all Games must go forward but now we all profess but one God unchangeably one the Maker of Heaven and Earth the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and he is always of one mind he is not for one thing sometimes and another thing other times like a distempered Stomack but God is still of one and the same mind and therefore that which pleaseth him at one time the same words and things if they proceed from the same heart must needs find the same acceptance always No marvel if dissentions arise amongst wicked ones betwixt Abimelech and the men of Shechem seeing they serve divers Masters have several lusts one raigning in this another in that man all commanding contrary things but shall not Christians speak the same things without divisions that all serve one Lord and that one being so far from commanding any thing that may occasion discord that his very livâ—â—â— is the Badge and Cognizance of Love and Peace More particularly being we profess to worship the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity let us consider each Person in the Blessed Trinity 1. God the Father he is one there is one Father of all If God be our Father Eph. 4.6 then are we all Brethren to each other If a man coming into his Neighbours house by chance should find them all together by the ears would he not think them disorderly and ill-governed children how much more if they should be observed to be ever and anon snarling and quarrelling one with another and beating and kicking one another Here Joseph
unto you Pharisees saith Christ for ye tithe Mint and Rue and all manner of Herbs and pass over judgement and the love of God these ought you to have done and not to leave the other undone Well if men will submit to the word of God the antidote against this strange partiality in the matter instanced of Christian union and concord is easily provided there being almost innumerable rules and precepts in the Scriptures to convince us of it Amongst which this Text is as full as any Now I beseech you Brethren by the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there â—e no divisions amongst you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgement Thus St. Paul wrote with his Brother Sosthenes to the Church of God which was at Corinth nor wrote he so to them onely but b verse 2. with them to all that in every place call upon the name of the Lord Jesus both theirs and ours The words then are spoken to us also and all Believers in all places to the Worlds end Now the Apostle intending to condemn many vices in these Corinthians that he might not seem to do it out of malice or spleen or envy he begins first with a true commendation of their gifts and vertues that they were inriched in all knowledg and in all utterance that they came behind others in no gift c verse 7. But alas as knowledge is apt to pusse us up so these Corinthians began in their pride to divide themselves from each other So that d verse 12. one cryed I am for Paul another I am for Apollo and a third I am for Cephas therefore to make way for a sharp reproof hereof the Apostle brings in this grave obtestation in the text Now I beseech you saith he though I might be bold in Christ to enjoyn and command yet for love sake I rather beseech you I beseech you Brethren I do it in the bowels and affections of a brother Nay and by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that is by the power and authority of Christ and for the honour and glory of Christ I Paul so speak as if Christ himself did speak unto you For alas how the name of God and how the Doctrine of Christ is blasphemed through your divisions he that runs may read it and therefore for his sake I beseech you By the Name of our Lord that is by vertue of that commission and authority I have received from him who is our Lord and if he be our Lord where is his honour and in the Name of our Lord Jesus he who is your Saviour and as you hope for Salvation by him Our Lord Jesus Christ he that is the anoynted of God anoynted to be our Prophet Priest and King every word in the obtestation hath a sufficient weight to awaken us to attend it What even this exhortation I beseech you Brethren by that Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions amongst you but that ye perfectly be joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgement It is a strange kind of earnestness and importunity the Apostle useth as elsewhere so here in this matter He was deeply sensible of the evil of divisions how they prejudice Gods truth for whilest they that profess it cannot agree in it the Fool is ready to scoff at it and to say in heart there is no God and how they endanger the Church and weaken it no engine that Satan and Anti-christ can use more than this the cutting of it into shreds like the Levites Concubine the blowing of the Coals of contention in it yea how they endanger the Souls of men by separating them from the Church and so from Christ who is the head thereof The Apostle was deeply sensible of the evil of divisions and therefore is strangely and more than ordinarily importunate in this Exhortation ushering it in with manifold obtestations See Phil. 2.1 2 If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort in love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any compassion and mercy fulfil my joy that you be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind Ephes 4.1 I the Prisoner of the Lord beseech you that you walk worthy of that vocation wherewith you are called with all lowlyness and meekness with long-suffering forbearing one another in love endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Rom. 16.17 18 Now I beseech you Brethren mark them that cause divisions among you and avoid them for they serve not our Lord Jesus But to name no more this in the Text is full enough Now I beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing c. that there be no divisions among you Which words being apparently an exhortation must be handled in such method as best sutes with the nature thereof 1. I must explain and propound it 2. I must enforce and urge it by explication I shall lay open the nature and extent of the objectum quod or duty to which we are exhorted And then for the enforcing of it I shall press sundry powerful motives upon your Consciences to engage you to endeavour to practise it and lay down wholesome rules and directions for the better performing it if the Lord inable me the time permit and your christian patience give encouragement 1. To propound the Exhortation I need not at all insist upon the words they are so plain and intelligible in themselves that being read they may as easily be understood and to offer to give any sense of them particularly one by one might render them more dark and obscure Let it suffice to tell you that the matter of duty in them contained is the unity of the Church and the concord of Christians An universal accord amongst them is to be endeavoured so far as is possible in judgment affection and action this is the sum and substance of the Text. 1. The Exhortation is to an unity in judgement so the Apostle expresly prescribes it in the latter words that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and the same judgment It is a thing much to be desired and by all good means to be endeavoured that according to our Churches prayer God would give to all Nations Unity Peace and Concord but especially that all that do profess his holy Name may also agree in the truth of his holy Word at least in the main and most substantial truths thereof and so that they may be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgement But if this cannot be hoped for and attained in this life yet 2. That we must be sure of to endeavour to preserve an unanimity in heart and affection Desired it must be but hoped for it cannot
thought he need say no more to his Brethren to prevent their falling out by the way than to remind them that they were all one mans Children and Brethren to each other Gen. 45.24 And Abraham to procure an everlasting Amity and utter cessation of all Debates thenceforth between himself and his Nephew Lot and their Servants made use of this one Argument the most prevalent of all others that they were Brethren Gen. 13.8 Psa 133 1. Ecce quam bonum Behold how good and joyful a thing it is Brethren to dwell together in unity Prophane Esau durst not avenge himself on Jacob lest he should vex his Father Isaac Gen. 27.4 And shall not Christians then who are Brethren not only by Generation but by Regeneration much more tender the displeasing of their one Father by disagreements and molestations of one another the nearer the dearer we use to say and there are few Relations nearer than that of Brotherhood but no Brotherhood in the world so closely and surely knit together and with so many and strong tyes as the Fraternity of Christians in the Communion of Saints which is the Brotherhood in the Text And therefore as we are Brethren and tender the glory of that God who is the Father of us all it concerns us to speak the same things and that there be no divisions amongst us 2. Consider also God the Son we are all redeemed by that one price of his precious Blood and methinks that calls for love and unity It 's implied in that of the Apostle One Faith Eph 4.5 One Faith is fixed on one and the same object the Mercy of God and Merits of Christ or Gods Free Grace in Christ and being ingrafted into one and the same Vine should we not all bear one and the same fruit We are all Fellow-Captives redeemed by the same Saviour Fellow-Patients cured by the same Physitian even Jesus Christ the object of our Faith Hence he that redeemed us did in like manner pray for us that we may be one John 17.21 23. perfectly one that the world might know that God sent him but this can never be if we speak not the same things but there be divisions amongst us 3. There is also but one Spirit and that 's the Apostles Argument also There is one Body one Spirit Eph. 4. and therefore endeavour the unity of the Spirit The Spirit is a Spirit of Unity this Spirit is the very Essential Unity Love and Love-knot of the two Persons the Father and the Son of God with God yea it was the very Union and Love-knot of the two Natures in Christ of God and Man he is the Spirit of Unity and therefore cannot delight in us unless we keep the unity of the Spirit That Spirit the Soul of man that gives life to the natural body yet can it not animate and give life to members dismembred unless they be first united and compact together Ezek. 35.7 8 9. We read there of the dead and scattered bones that to the end they might be revived they first came together every bone to his bone then the sinews came and knit them then the flesh and skin covered them and then and not before the Spirit came from the four Winds to give them life So the very natural Spirit the Soul doth not inform the body unless there be an accord and unity in it much more is this required as a proper disposition to make us meet for the habitation of the Holy Ghost even this quality that is like that his Nature and Essence Unity and Unanimity for us to be of one mind and judgment and to speak the same things and that there be no divisions amongst us divisions are a token we are led by divers Spirits and not by this one There is a Spirit indeed in these divisions but it is an evil spirit such as was between Abimelech and the men of Shechem Judges 9. And such as are for a toleration of such divisions we may write upon them as our Saviour did upon the man possessed Legion for they are many pretend they to the Spirit as they will of walking and praying by the Spirit we need not believe them unless we list to be led by any other than a devillish spirit The Devil shews himself to be a Devil by his Cloven Foot if we would receive and not grieve nor quench nor dishonour the one Spirit by which we pretend all to be governed let us speak the same things that there be no divisions amongst us As we tender the glory of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost we must do this 3. So while we look upon the Church of God for that is but one body which is the Apostles argument also It is but one and only one My Love my Dove Eph. 4. Cant. 6. my undefiled is one she is the only one of her Mother So are we Christians made all up into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one mystical body Eph. 3.6 and that by such a real though mysterious incorporation as that we become thereby 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as all of us members of Christ Rom. 12.5 so every one of us members one of another Noâ— the sympathy and supply that is between the members of the natural body for thâ—ir mutual comfort and good of the whoâ—e The Apostle setteth it forth elegantly and applieth it very fully to the Mystical Body of the Church at large 1 Cor. 12. It were a thing prodigiously unnatural and to every mans apprehension the effect of a frenzy or madness at the least to see the head plot against the tongue revile the hands buffet the teeth devour his fellow-members No if any one member be it never so small and despicable be in anguish the rest are sensible of it There is a mutual sympathy and communication betwixt them there are no terms of bitterness stood upon in the natural members I am better than thou and I than thou no terms of disgrace heard I have no need of thee nor I of thee but they are all ready to contribute their several supplies according to their several measures and abilities to give ease and relief to the grieved part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That there be no rent or schism 1 Cor. 12.25 saith the Apostle using the very word of the Text no division or disunion of parts in the body And as we may consider the Church as one Body so as one Houshold and our selves as fellow-servants of the same Family Gal. 6.10 the same houshold of Faith So ought we then to behave our selves in the House of God 1 Tim. 3.15 which is the Church of the Living God as becometh fellow-servants that live under the same Master We all wear one Livery 1 Cor. 10.3 4. having all put on Christ by solemn profession at our holy Baptism and we are all fed at one Table eating the same spiritual meat
loth to deny themselves as in effect to acknowledge they was formerly in an error and in the wrong It s pride that make some desire to go in some singular way and loath to go on in a beaten tract wherein they may be obscured in the throng with Theudas they are ambitious to be some body with Simon Magus to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some knowing or Zealous person they would be taken notice of by their neighbours as a stricter sort of livers and would be eminent though by the infamy of Schism or separation To be called of men Rabbi Rabbi is inchaunting musick to any Pharisee and the very essence and constitutive parts of a Schismatick is the esteem of himself and the contempt of others I am not as this Publican was the Pharisees voice whose very name signifies separation and our modern separatists do but eccho the same note when they pronounce these Church assemblies and the members thereof heretical or carnal from whom they withdraw themselves r Esa 65.5 they say as those in Esay Stand of come not near me for I am holier then thou But let it be remembred that while the Pharisee lookt so fastidiently on the poor Publican he renounc'd communion in prayers much more acceptable to God then his own and the observation is truly applyable in our case The Transcendant purity and Saintship and holiness which our Separatists boasts of being if brought to the touch but a more sublimated wickedness And their pretence for spiritually being onely verified in spiritual pride By their fruits of rebellion disobedience to and contempt of Magistracy and Ministry rash censures mallice evil speakings and bitterness headiness treasons high maindedness and the like fruits you may know them So this pride is another partition wall that Satan useth to divide us from God and one another and to make men forsake the Assemblies of the Church 3. It is the manner of some also to forsake them out of curiosity this is that baneful weed which the divel made shift to steal even into Paradise which hath ever since affected the richest soils the most pregnant understandings I do not altogether mean that speculative curiosity about the mysterious parts of our religion though that be a notorious mean also to propagate Heresies when men will not be soberly wise but will attempt to find out the depths of those mysteries which God hath thought fit to make secret prying into the Ark of the secret counsells of God But that curiosity of men which is usually about those little trifling notions and thin aerial speculations which do not at all tend to make men wiser to salvation Men are not content to know those divine truths which tend to Godly practice therefore they think such preachers as insist of them dry and insipid and forsake them to follow those who will offer them nicer speculations be they never so unprofitable to the great end of Salvation s vide The Decayes of Christianity in the causes of disputes Besides there is another curiosity that is deep in the guilt of drawing men from the Assemblies to which they belong A curiosity to hear strange preachers they have itching ears their ordinary food do not please them a new besome sweeps clean an uncouth bit is for their palates a Minister of the best gifts cannot please them long as the Athenians were all for enquirng of news so are these men all for novelties In a short time they distaste the ministry of their ordinary Pastors and so to please the distempered palates of their fickle souls they must needs be gadding abroad to hear every upstart Mountebank that is near them and so this is one great reason of their forsakeing their ordinary assemblies as the manner of many is 4. Another reason hereof is covetousness and interest the great Idol to which the world bowes as the Apostle saith they that will be rich fall into divers temptations so do they fall into this sin among the rest Some men will be rich therefore out of respect to their profit they absent themselves from the Assemblies of the Church they must needs spend some Sabbaths in going to Fairs or going jorneys or makeing bargains or meeting customers or looking to some house business they cannot get their living they say by coming to Church and when they come they must needs leave a great part of their family behind them for some worldly advantage or other These are like those in Malachi t Mal. 3â—4 That said it is in vain to serve the Lord and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances And others there be in the world that make a show of religion and piety that have no other end in their broaching and maintaining Schisms and separations from the assemblies of the Church then their proper advantages They make divinity an handmaid religion a stalking horse to a policy Jeroboam made the Golden Calves become more venerable Deities when he found them sit to serve his jealousies and Matchiavels policy that states and persons should secure themselves of religion was a common practice long before it was a rule In the Old Testament we read of mercenary Prophets that turned the office into a trade that divined for money and even for handfuls of Barley and pieces of Bread And in the New St. Paul speaks of deceivers that speak things they ought not for filthy Lucres sake u Titus 1.11 And the same Apostle declaiming against the love of money as the root of all evil he reproves it from its having made men erre from the faith x 1 Tim. 6.11 And it is St. Peters prediction that the most damnable Heresies even the denying of the Lord that bought them should be introduced by those who through covetousness should make Merchandize of their Proselytes y 2 Pet. 2.3 And is it not plain how mens itching ears in this Age do invite many Mountebanks in Religion to try experiments upon them when men Nauseats Old truths and Old teachers because they are acquainted with them and embrace Doctrines and broachers of them because they are new when men love such teachers and are bountiful to none but such as they love how can it be doubted but some will suit themselves to their disciples humours to gain money to themselves when by sowing tares they can immediately reap Gold our age hath given us sufficient experience hereof would God that this way of divelish traffique were at an end And doubtless as there be many leaders so are there many Disciples in the separation in whom covetousness and self interest reigns exceedingly and by it they are animated in their obstinate continuance in their erronious waies so as to stop their ears to the charmes of sound doctrines charme they never so wisely Now O that such would consider what the character of infamy is that remaines yet upon Achan that he troubled Israel to inrich himselfe And on Balaam that he
world take heed hereof then I beseech you 2. But for Church Assemblies I beseech you labour to love them and delight in them and be more thankful to God for the liberty you have to frequent and enjoy them than hitherto you have been Consider the cloud of witnesses that is gone before you i Prov. 2.20 Walk in the way of good men and keep the way of the righteous They have ever highly esteemed and diligently frequented the Assemblies of the Church Christs Parents being poor dwelt far off Jerusalem yet did they go up every year to the passeover which was the most solemn Church Assembly that Gods people in those dayes had Behold a witness against them that pretend poverty for their excuse The Apostles after Christs ascention were continually in the the Temple k Luke 24.53 And Anna the Prophetest departed not from the Temple but served God with prayers and fasting night and day l Luk. 2 37. And the Primitive Christians continued dayly with one accord in Temple m Acts 2.46 Yea our blessed Saviours custome was to the Synagogue every Sabbath day n Luke 4.16 And did constantly go to every passeover at Jerusalem o Joh. 2.1 3. behold what witnesses you have against those that pretend they have knowledge and grace enough they have no need to go to Church they canno profit by it but can as well serve God at home Hezekiah the King you see resolved so soon as ever he recovered to go up to the House of God p Esai 38.32 David loved the habitation of Gods house and the place were his honour dwelt q Psal 26.8 He counted Gods Tabernacles amiable his soul longed nay fainted for them r Psal 84.12 He made it his choice to be a constant companion of them that feared God Å¿ Psal 19.63 He was glad when they said unto him let us go up to the House of God Behold what witnesses you have also against those that being great and rich take state upon them and think it a kind of debasement to be constant in attending Gods house and service Let us in the fear of God follow these excellent examples and of what ever degree we be poor or rich wise or learned let us never forsake the Assembles or neglect them If we do we may easily provoke God to gives up to our own hearts lusts or to hardness of Heart in sin or to the delusion of Satan to believe his lies And therefore let us prize the having oppertunities of attending Gods house Let us count it one of the greatest blessings that our candlestick is not removed nor is there a famine of the word in our daies not is it persecuted but that we may securely and openly worship God in our Churches and Temples and not as our miserable fore fathers be glad to do it in hills and holes in Dens and Caves of the earth Let us labour to walke worthy of this blessing while we enjoy it and to benefit by it lest we provoke God continually till he be weary of long sufing and so he at length destroy his Tabernacle as a garden and lay wast our congregations t Lam. 2.6 Let it be our daily prayer for the continuance of our solemn assemblies both here and in all places of our divided land u Psal 122.6 pray for the peace of Jerusalem They shall prosper that love thee Thus let us do every one our selves 3. Nay let us according to the latter part of the verse wherein our text is Let us exhort one another hereunto let every one call upon his neighbors and friends and draw them to frequent the Church assemblies when the Lord had prophecied x Esa 2.2 That in the dayes of the Gospel all nations should flow unto the house of the Lord he addeth y ver 3. that by this means it should be done Many people shall go and say come let us go up to the house of God Especially let Masters of Families and Parents be exhorted not to think it sufficient to come to Gods house themselves but see that their Children and servants come also A Godly Christian cannot be content that they should attend him in his house that will not attend and go with him to Gods house z Exod. 20.10 you see the commandement runs that we do not onely keep the Sabbath our selves but must look that our Sons and our Daughters our men servants and our maidservants and strangers do the same And Joshuahs piety runs thus a Jos 24.15 I and my house will serve the Lord. And David saith expresly b Psal 101.7 there shall no deceitful person dwell in my house no prophane contemner of religion And c Psal 42.4 he speakes of this as one of the greatest comforts he had on earth that he went with a multitude of them that kept holy day and led them into the house of the Lord This if we do not if we walke not after these excellent patterns and examples if we do not with chearfulness go into the Lords Courts and serve the Lord with gladness and come before him with joyfulness if we do not account our dayes and hours pretious that are so bestowed if we be not forward to take all holy opertunities redeeming our time from the world that we may spend them in these assemblies of Gods people if we have neither delight nor appetite to the words and Sacraments or the duties of praise and invocation if we be dull or lumpish heavy and spiritless in them if we be not much agrieved to see or hear of the congregations being unfrequented or neglected and glad to see and quick to promote the frequency and fulness thereof It is because we do not understand our own happiness in enjoying the benefit of them As Christ said to the woman of Samaria we do not know the gift of God d Joh. 4.10 We are sottish and insensible of the greatness of that priviledge we may have in waiting upon the assemblies And therefore we are so prone to forsake the assembling of our selves together as the manner of many is From which grievous sin God of his infinite mercy preserve us making us evermore to delight in his house and presence For Jesus Christ his sake to whom with the father and the Holy Ghost be ascribed all honour and glory might majesty and dominion now and for ever more Amen FINIS