Sermon 1f· Ofthe N AT 1vI TIE. btarers, to all theGentilt<, that came in after. Vponthis,I beg leave to ftand a little, fince it is ourtenure, Weholq by. . . . And, that G 0 o would thus doe, call the Gentdes m, there was fomc little Ecce ·(frill) fome [mall sw;ftghtfrom the begmmng. . . · Byway of Promife. Somuchpromlfed, bythePatrtarchs. ?{ge; rhatlaphet . 1 . jhould at tht l".ft dwellin the Tents ~fSem. vfbraham! that,inhir ~eed(_~ot any one G:n.~ • •7...; N 'ltion but) allthe nations ofthe earth bebtejfed. fat ob; that Shzlo scommingfbould •8 · be~ expeflatio (ay fome, and fome, aggregatto} Gentlflm: All '1{,-.ttons !Mkefor Him. '49.' 0 '. allbeg•thtredtohim. ·. . . . · .! Jly way of Figure. :"fmuchwas !hado\v,edmtheLaw;the~abernacle, and th_e z. Temple: all figr~res of thtngs to come. TheLaw : Where was lt g1v\n ~ Was tt Heb.r6.r. notinSinai, 'a <.Mountainein Arabia(faith tireApoftle,) and fo up'onheathengror~nd? o>~+•s: Irrufr we may haveleavetocome uponou(owneground•. And by whom ~ ·was it not 'by 01-lofes? And we cliime to Him by alliance : His wife was the daughter Exod.•. 1 s; of rbe Prieft ·of Madian : So, of a heathen woman; and his children, hwheiJ of · ~w , . . . . The Tabernade; Was not theJilke,andgold,and rzches,It was made of,theJJoyles Exod.r q .r; ()f .£gypt, and fo heathen ltuffe ~ ' . . •s->,&c. The Temple : was it not founded upon thethre(htng jloore of Ornan the Jebr~Jite, r Chro,.,,,s•. a heathen man~ So, on heathen foile; and, «dijicium cedit folo. Thetimber and . . tnaterialls of ir, came rhey not fromHiramscounrrey, A Heathen Kihg ~ And, the 'Rcg.po.r: chiefe workeman, in ir (t6e Spnne of amanof Tyre) Heatber1 alfo. So, the Heathen !l• &c, Were never wholly out. rtnmmt, they came,rbeymad~ their proffers; SomeEm, fomelittle.fiarfrill. . ; , 1 _ . NowtheProphets, whentheycame, had wenot·hdld there, too~ Atthefame j time that G o D gave <.Mofesto rhe Iewu, who wrote of C H a r s T, did he not iike~ife give Balaam, to the Gmtiles, who, inthemounfaines of the Eafl, prophejiei!Num.>i,.•7:; ofCH R 1sT, Starre,here~ Greatodd5 (Iknow)ber~eenethernen; Nonebetweene their Prophecies : Both, alike true: both their pl<tcesalike, in the Librarieof the Holy Ghojl. Afrcrrhat, Ionas: howfoeverhis booke ltandm the volume of the Prophets, yet (when ti(newas) ir_was fl1ew:ed, that,in time,he was the'lirll:oftheli~~ teene Prophets; before, and anctentto them all'. And thts was afa1reStar, that Hts firlt Prophet of all Go o !em to N.,inive, thegreat Cirie of the Gentiles, then: And Iohn u; fem him, beforeHe fentany of the other fiftecneto his owne people (then) in !hew, - · the People ~f the Ierm. . But, even of them He fentto rhe !ewes, faith not Efay direCtly, the Root ofIejfe jhould be as aStandard,af!the Nations gather rmto Him? Sairh not Go o there, It was Efay r i.to; toopoorea.fervice for CHR 1sT to doeto Him, to draw to Him a fort of filly Shepheards ;' Hewouldgive fi im ,a< alight to lighten the Genti!es ,to bringtl1em,even the very bell: of Efay 4>.1. · them,fromtheendsofthe earth. That light to lighten the Gentiles was thisStar(here;) 43 .;; Simeon had it revealed to him, whereto this Star referred, and what it meant· For, it k lighted them indeed. And this, ll:anding theftr.fl Temple. . And, faith n~r Aggee, Lu ·'l'· (flandmg thefecond Temple) The dejire ofall 'J'VtiomJhat~ldcome, (meanin" chrijl ;) Agg.i.S, rh~ defire, not of one Nation alone, but even of ~ll. So,theProphets wilfnotbe a. gamlt this venerunt: they are (all) for it. And was nor alfo thisVenerttpt dayly fung in their ~ur l TheP.falme of the . ~twrtte : I will thinke ttpon Rahab (that is .£gypt) and Baby/on, among frtchtH 4 foal/ know mee, Behold yee the .Philiflims a!fo, and themof Tyre, with the p.,ia11s i Pf>i.s 7 .H; Lo,. there was Ht bo~n;. 7/orne, mall thofe places; rhat is, His birth concernes them all.all,thetrmtere!hntr. In the Pl:1lme of His Pafion: All the ends of the earthfba/1 PC>I.••·•t; remember them{elves, and jhall tttrnt ttmo the L 0 R n vfnd aft the kindreds of · ~ttons Jhallworjhip before Him. In rhePfalmeofrh; Re{rmeflion: Thar, Hee· ~ ould then become the Head-Jione of the corner and joyne both Inves and Genttles ;zo,ecetne, or angle, ARd, in the Pfalme of His Afcenjion : Thart.he Princes of Pi,!.uS..&; - & 'l{jttomJh01d~bejoyncdto the People of the Gon of vfbraham. And, mthe Pfalme Pf,I.t"'~• . ---- ··-· l)f N
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