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R.
12.
Ephefianr,
Chap.2.
279
his
Thoughts
, and fitting as it
were
in
Ccmmiillion
over the whole
man, ruling
and
governing him
in
fpight
of
the power
of
fatan, and
privie confpiracie
of
his
own
flefh.
He that perceiveth this Monarchy
of
the
Spirit,
over- ruling the
tyrannous
aflaulrs aforefaid
,
may well be allured he
is
taken
into
Covenant,
and
hath the Spirit
put
into
his
heart,
and
fo confegaently
that
he
is
no
!ranger
to the Covenant
of
God.
Secondly,this doth
let
us fee,
that the Lord
left the Gentiles
with.
out
the
means
of
calling
them to
falvation.
For
the
clearing
(Alt, we
muff fat
down three
things:
r.
That
the
DoElrine
of
the Covenant
is
the onely ordinary
means.
a. That
the
Lord
did
deny them this.
3.
That
it
was not any
thing,
but
his
meer pleafure, which did
make him
give it
to the Jew,
and deny it the Gentile.
It
was
not the Law
of
nature,if
one could
follow
it,
that
could
bring
him
to
falvation.
It
is
not the book
of
the creature
:
It
is
not
every
mans humour, and fecret whifpering
of
the
Dottrine
of
Chril,
fuch
as
might from
the
Egyptian
bondage,
or
the
Traffique
of
Tome
pri-
vate
perlons,
or the Captivity,be
here
and
there fcattered among the
Gentiles
:
Pfal.147.
He maxifefleth his Word
to Jacob, his
Statutes
and
his
ludgements
to
Ifrael;
he
hash not
f
done
to
any
nation.
It
was
not
any
thing, but his pleafure.
Deut.9.4.
Say not
in
thy
heart, For
my
righ-
teoafnefft
the Lord
bath
brought
me
in,
to
FOP
this
land,
&
ç.
This
made the feparation, and was the fountain
of
all
that.love to
his
peo-
ple, above
the
reft
of
the nations.
It
is
plain
then, how
that the
Gentiles were thus without the
Do.
thine
of the
Covenant, God not
pleating
to
vouchfafe
it
:
The
gald
is
the
power
of
God
unto
falvation,
Rom.
a.
16.
It
'leafed
God,
by
the
foolifhne
/fe
of
preaching,
to
fave
them
that
beleeve,
r
Cor.4.
They
had
not
Chrift
once named
:
It
was denyed
in
every age,before the
Flood after the giving
of
the
Law. God
cal
Cain
from
his
face,
from
the
fociety
of
his,
in
the
means
of
his
pretence;
fo
that a
diftin-
&ion
grew between the
Eons
of
God
, and
of
men
;
the one had the
worfhip
of
God,
the other had not.
After the Flood, the pofterity
of
Cham; in
the Tents
of
Shem
was
the
Lord
known.At.the Law
giving,
we
fee
that the Lord
denyed
the
Ordinance
of
Levi to
any nation,but
to
Ifrael
:
Yea,
in
time
of
Çhril,the
Gentiles were
denyed,
as
dogs,
the bread
of
the
children, Mat.
r
J
am
not
fens,
but unto the loft
fhieep
of
the haufe
of
!frail. Mat.
to.
Ge.not
in
the
way
of
the Gentiles.
Paul
now girt
io
this bufineffe,
is
forbidden
to
preach
in Afta;
As
a
6.
God
fuffered
them
to
walk
in
their
own
ways.
The
fending, or the not
the
fending
of
Labourers into the harveft,
is
belonging
to
Lord
:
the
Lord killed
that
rebellious people
with
kindnefre,
when others
that
had
no
fuch
means, would have been more
fruitful! ;
I
will
have
mer-
cie
on
whom
I
willhave mercie,
Rom.9.
So
that it doth let
us
fee,
that the Lord
may juftly
leave
men with-
out
e
Doe.
Gentiles
left
without
means
of
faltation.