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4. Secondly, another reason to evince the ne∣cessity of this duty of contending for the Faith, is mentioned in the end of the verse, and is this: be∣cause this Faith hath beene once delivered to the Saints. God will make no such solemne revelation of it, as hee hath done, the holy Ghost shall bee no more sent downe from heaven in cloven and fierie tongues: therefore it
stands the world in hand now they have it, to look to it, to keepe it safe; a thing of moment that is not to be recovered, if once lost or gotten out of our hands, requires all care and diligence in keeping; and as this reason hath a truth and waight in it as it concernes the world in generall; so I thinke it may hold, if we confine it to particular Nations, Ci∣ties, &c. if God hath once given them the Gospel in the truth, power, and sim∣plicitie of it, and they let it goe, it will hardly bee delivered unto them the second time.