See how St. _Paul_ sets forth the true church.――_Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life._――Here we have the one true church infallibly described.――He goes on. _For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection._ Therefore to be in Christ, or in his church, belongs to no one, but because the old man is _put off_, and the new man is _put on_.――The same thing is said again in these words; _Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed_, That (N. B.) HENCEFORTH _we should not serve sin_. Away then with all the tedious volumes of church _unity_, church _power_, and church _salvation_. Ask neither a council of _Trent_, nor a synod of _Dort_, nor an _assembly_ of divines, for a definition of the church. The apostle has given you, not a definition, but the unchangeable nature of it, in these words. But now _being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life_. Therefore to be in the true church, and to be in Christ a new creature which sinneth not, is the same thing. *Look at all that is outward, and all that you then see, has no more of salvation in it, than the stars and elements. Look at all the good works you can think of, they have no goodness for you, but when the good Spirit of God is the doer of them. For all the outward works of religion may be done by the _natural man_, he can observe all church duties, stick close to doctrines, and put on the semblance of every outward virtue; thus high can he go. But no Christian, till led by the Spirit of God, can go any higher than this outward formality; to which he can add nothing, but his own natural, fleshly zeal in the defence of it. _My little children_, saith St. Paul, _of whom I travail again in birth, till Christ be formed in you_. This is the whole labour of an apostle to the end of the world. He has nothing to preach to sinners, but the absolute necessity, the true way, and the certain means of being born again. But if dropping this one thing he becomes a disputing reformer about words and opinions, and helps Christians to be zealously separated from one another, for the sake of being saved by different notions of faith, works, justification, or election, he has forgot his errand, and is become a blind leader of all who are blind enough to follow him.