290 r. 2. 3. 4 Oneneffc of all people, what. OhjeEi. r. 2. Epbefian.e, Chapa. Vim .I q.. i. When it begun chiefly. 2. In what it flood. 3. Before whom. 4. How long it indured. Ir begun after the peoples return out of Egypt, and when they were nowby lot under lofhua affigned toCanaan for their polity and place, inwhich they were bounded. There was a feparation from thebegin- ning, of faithful' and unfaithful', Cain and vibe', fons of God and men; fo after the Flood, sham and laphetfrom Sem; but this entred after, and was moreconfpicuous. It flood not onely in things temporali , but fpirituall, they having Chrift looking on them, through the Lattice-windows oftheir Cere- monial) worfhip : The Law a School. mafjerto Chrift, an intraduSlion of a betterhope, Gal. 3. z4. Theyhad light and life, when the ref were indarkneffe and fhadowofdeath. God was the Author of it fee Detet.32. 8.9,ro. It indured until' the death and refurre&ion of Chrif. Now it fol- loweth, to confider of the unitingof th; 1,-w and Gentile by meanof Chrift : Thus the Prophets did fore ell this taking of the Gentiles to fcllowfhip with the Church : 1b Chrift all the nationsof the earth fbcaldbebleffed, Gen.22. r 8. All the nationsfhoaldflow unto thehour of God.andfhould worfhiip one god with Iacob,Ifa.2.2. And God faith,that He will make a path from Egypt to vifhar ; and Afhur fhall come into Egypt, and Egypt onto - fhur : fo the Egyptians (hall worfhip with Afhar, Ifa. r 9.23. Now in Chrift thefe promifes were Yea and Amen, all of them accomplifhed, when Chrift faid, It isfiniJhed, Joh. rg. 3o. Whereupon prefently,he that had forbidden his Apoffles togo into the way of the Gentiles, Mat. ro.5. he doth bid them Co teach all nations, Mat. 28. 19. Now fecondly confider, in what this one-ment ftandeth; it is a lirait conjunction, even into one man myflicall, of which we (hall fpeak hereafter. In the mean while, the fourth chap. of this Epifle will open unto you the contents of this union; they were not now worfhippersof Diana, but had one God with the Jew, they were joynt worfhippersof thetrue God, one in fpirit; an effect ofwhich in them was, to be of one heart and minde, in one hope, in one Faith. It may beobjected, that Chrift his making way for the Gentiles, was the occafion of rejecting of the Jew, as concerning the Gofpel; They are enemiesforyear fake, the calling away ofthem is the reconcilia- tion ofthe world, Rom.r Secondly, we fee that fill there are differences, as of Jew, Turk, and Chrifüans. For the firft, the rejecting of Ifrael is but in part, and for a time., z. This is though Paid to be done , becaufe itis in part done ; for the full accomplifhment fhall be, when all Ifrael, all the peopleof Jew and Gentile are called. 3. Therefore we areone, not that the Jews and we now go hand in hand, but that the ancient Church and wedoconfpire . For
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