66 Ejrhefian.r,C;hap: I. `7E «could not be faid rejected ever before, in this manner which did be- fall them, and is here lamented : This rejection intimated, he preveo- "teth anobje&ion, which fome might make againft it, in this manner : " That which wouldmake Gods word to Ifrael, and that feed ofAbra- " barn fruftrate, that is not tobe granted :But the rejection ofthe Jewes " from being Gods Ifrael, and the feed whom he will bleff'e, maketh «his word in vaine,Ergo.The reafon which confirmeth thisaffumprion "is to be gathered from the Apoftles anfwer fuch as are the Iitael, "whom Godhath loved, and chofen, and promifed to bleffe or ever, «fuch cannot be rejected, but the word of Godwill be made fruftrate; " but, Paid they, we areGods Ifrael, we are 16rahams feede; which "are plainely to begathered from verfe 6. and 7. From thefecircum- "fiances, well marked, we may fee that the word here meant, is that " word which opened Gods gracious election'ofthis people, to be his «people and children,and which promifedhisperpetual! prefence with " them, and bleffingtowards them : The word here meant, is fucha f word as taketh effect in that part ofthe Lewes whom Goddid know "before, and is ftill madegood in them ;but thewordofthe legali cove-. " nant is abrogated ro all thechofenofthe Iewes. Secondly;leremie de- "dared the word of the legall covenant tò be made in vaine, yet did "not this give place to fuch anobjeétion,that Godsword tohis people "was made ofnoneeffeót. Againe, the Apoftlehis anfwer wasdirect, the word is madebymans finne in vaine ; and to have informed thew "in the true endof the wordofthe Law, and not to anfwer them, that "theword ofthe Gofpels covenant is not fruftrate, when they object, " that the word of the covenant of the Law is come ro nothing ; this " were but being asked of Chalke, to anfwer ofCheefe. Againe,wefee " thatPaul dothnot intimare the rejection oftheLewes, asfrom righte- « oufneffe and life, asthey were followersofthe law, which is a point " he commeth to in the beginningof the next Chapter; but he confide- " reth them, aspart ofIfrael, and thefeede ofAbrahamoncly : for had « this beene the thing in which theygrounded themfelves, ifthofe who "follow the Law be rejected, Gods word is come to nothing, then fhould notPaul haveanfwered, all whoare from Ifrael, are not Ifrael; " all whoareAbrahams feede, are not children ; but all who follow the " Law arenot the truelfrael to whichGod did rye himfelfe by promife. " Secondly; Ir is plaine, heintimateth their rejection, as they were the " people ofthe Iewes, as they were denominated the Ifrael of God, " which may be gathered from the firft verfeof the eleventh chapter. « Hark God raft away hit people? Godfrbid. laman Ifraelite, ofthefeede «ofAbraham,afthe tribe ofBenjam in.Thirdly ,Nogodly faithful) ones "could thinke the wordof God falfified, iffuch as did feede juftificati- "on in the Law by the workes of it, were rejected; but the Apoftles " and godlieft awhile were exercifed with this doubt, they could not " fee how it could ftand with Gods word,that Ifrael fhouldbeforfaken, " and the Gentiles called : It is certaine therefore, that he doth intimate "the rejection of the Iewes, as thofe who had beene the Ifrael ofGod, and
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