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Ephefaanf,
Chap
z.
j
291
For the fécond
,
r.
God
hath even
a
hidden
Church
in
Turky:
2.
They
are
not
of
Gods fetting, but
of
mans
taking
up,
to
diflingulfh
them
that gather them
(elves
to the Churches from
other.
But
their children are
unholy.
O6ietl;
It
is
good to
be fober here for
the
prefenc
citate
of
men
cut
off
-lam
from the
Church,
Both
not
prejudice their children
:
The
right to the
Tables doth not
require the immediate parents faith
of
neceflity,
but
any
within the thoufanth generation
;
neither would the Apoftle,find-
ing
Infants
of
deceafed parents
(where
they planted
Churches)
have
den yed
them
Baptifine.
Ir doth
binde
us
to
thankfgiving,
if
we could
recount
the
great
pp,
comfort
of
this benefit, we fhould break
out into
thankfulnefTe;
the
Union
of
men
union
of
two kingdoms, the
union
of
any
Churches
of
the
Papifts
'n
the
Church,
aacr
of
with
us,
would it not rejoyce
use
Every
good
fubjeét will
feels
the
thankfulncWe.
inlargement
of
the
Kings
territories,
and
the rooting out of all oppo-
fires,
that
fet
themfelves againft the welfare
of
his
Kingdom: How
much more fhould it be our
joy, to
fee
the
Kingdom
of Chrift
propa-
gated,
and our
(elves
with the
Saints
of
all
the earth
linked
in one
Bath
broken down
theJlop
of
the partition
wall.]
Obferve,
What
is
the Dotlr.
r.
way
to
peace ;
namely,
to
take
away
that
which debars
it.
Cart
out
the
way
Co
fence
to
mo
whifßerers. What peace,
faith leha,
can there be, while the
fornicatiens
of
hsi,
ndranreces.
ve
lezabel are unrevenged
? a
Kings
9.32. A
folly to meditate
of
peace
between
God
and us,
or
man
and
man, out
of
this
order:
As
if
one
would
make
two
rooms one, or
make
Ciofes into
one
,
he muff
beat
down
the wall, and pull
up
the hedge that maketh the partition.
Secondly,
mark what was
the
ufe
of the ceremoniall worfhip, to
Doïlr.
z
hem
the
Jews
in
among
themfelves,
and
to
feparate.
them from
the
ufe
of
the
Ce-
mon.all
wor-
Gentiles, rjal. 3.
23.
Before
Faith
came,
we
were kept
under the Law,
>h;p-
rc
and !hut
up
unto the
Faith
which
lhauld afterward
be
revealed.
It
had
many ends
:
To
teach
them their
guilt, it
was a Bill againft
them to
drive them
to
Chrift,
to
typifie
out
Chrift
in his
offices, they
were
fhadows
of
him
the
body,
finews
to
tye them together
,
to
be exer-
cifes
of their faith
and
obedience, to be
rules
of
their diftinétion,
to be
as
a wall
about them,
keeping
them apart
from
the nations,
and
the
nations
from
them; that
is
to
be marked
of
the Ceremonies of
Sacri-
ficing, and
of Circumcifion.
The
Morali
Laws were not
a
wall
of
partition, for the Gentile
was
bound
to them,
did in fome
things the
work
of
them,
was
plagued
from
heaven in
all
ages
for the breach
of
them
:
Yea,
if
the
Gentile
had
come amongft the Jews, he might have
been forced to
the work
of
them,
as
Neb.
13.
2
r.
the
forein Merchants
for breaking the
Sab-
baths, are
brought to order.
It
was
not
the
Judiciall, founded
in na-
turall
equity,as the letting their land reftevery feventh year; or touch-
ing
perlons,
as
the Law
of
Divorce,
felling children ;
or
of
Ceremo.
nie,as
the Judiciall,of
flying
to
a
city
of
Refuge,in
cafe
of
involuntary
Murther:
But
thefe,
Circumcifron,
this made
the
Gentiles let
Aye
creartt
iraáRJSr
names at
them
:
Sacrifices,
thefe were
an
abomination to the Egyp-
apda,uon
ego
flans,
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