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 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 is 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 your quarters here or be ruined to eternity. If you do not take up your lodging 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 it is dreſſed and pruned, the owner thereof dreſſes prunes it, that it may not go back and wither. 'Tis ſo with the Church of Chriſt. There was never a ſociety on earth ſo well taken care of; never a plant ſo well ordered and dreſſed. Of this you have a figurative or metaphorical account in the fifth Chapter of Iſaiah, where the prophet thus ſings, "Now will I ſing to my well beloved concerning his vineyard; my well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill and he fenced it and gathered out the ſtones thereof and planted it with the choiceſt vine, and built a bower in the midſt thereof, and he made a winepreſs therein," &c. Verſe 1 and 2. O what pains was he at with his vineyard, the ſoil and ground of this holy and heavenly Buſh. The Holy Ghost is the prime, the principal dreſſer of this Buſh; hence he is promiſed, as the comforter to come to the poor Buſh, when the Jewiſh  was ready to burn it up- "I will ſend the comforter, the Holy Ghoſt unto you, a he ſhall guide you in all truth," &c. In Pſalm xlvi. 4. He is called a river