What They Said

"Let me persuade you to believe, that the gospel is not entailed upon England. England hath no letters patent of the gospel; the gospel is removeable. God took away the ark and forsook Shiloh, and he did not only take away the ark, but the temple also. He unchurched the Jews, he unchurched the seven churches of Asia, and we know not how soon he may unchurch us. I know no warrant we have to think that we shall have the gospel another hundred years. God knows how to remove bis candlestick, but not to destroy it, God doth often remove the church, but doth not destroy it. God removed his church out of the east, as the Greek churches were famous churches, bat God removed them, and now the Turk overspreads that country."

Edmund Calamy