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( 16 ) or be ruined and consumed for ever. Some will be ready to say, alas I cannot abide by a Bush all in a flame; if that's your Bush Moses, farewel, the back of my hand to it; seeing this is the case I'll have nothing ado with the Bush of Christ for there‘s nothing about her but flames of error and persecution. My advice unto you is, O take up you quarters here or be ruined to eternity, do not take up your lodgings here, hell fire will seal your condemnation to a long eternity; and then you will not have such good company as the poor Bush; Well, man I cannot give thee a better advice and you will think it very strange to take up your abode in a fiery lodging I doubt not but some will think it a paradox. Yea, but it is a heavenly one and a true one too

6 the Church of Christ is compared to, or called a Bush. Why? Because The owner thereof dresses  may not go  'Tis just so with the Church of Christ; there was never a  so well taken care of, never a plant so well ordered and dressed Of this you have figurative or metaphorical account in the, where the  thus sing, "Now will I  to my well beloved ; My well beloved . And he fenced it and gathered out the stones thereof; and planted it with the choicest vine and  a tower in the midst thereof, and also made a wine  therein." &c Verses and 9 O what pains was he at with  vineyard, the  ground of his holy and heavenly Bush The Holy Ghost is the, the principal  this Bush hence he is promised, as the comforter to come to the poor Bush, when the Jewish flame was ready to burn it up—". will send the comforter, the Holy Ghost unto you, and he shall guide you in all truth," &  xivi  He is called a