Psalms — Chapter 25
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Verse 5
I haue hated the Church of the malignant. Holy Dauid forced by reason of persecution to dwell amongst Infidels the Philistines, lamented how great affliction it was to him to be cast out, that he could not dwell in the inheritance of our Lord where God was rightly serued. His zeale was such that he hated the Church of the malignant, that is, the congregations of all miscreants: and his immaculate religious puritie was so perfect that he would not so much as in external shew conforme his actions to theirs in matters of religion, nor yeeld his bodily presence in their conuenticles. Instructing vs Christians that we must both hate the Church or congregations of the malignant, to wit, of Paynims, Iewes, Turkes and Heretikes, and not sit nor personally be present with them in the exercise of their false pretended religions.