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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 would
make
Gods word to Ifrael,
and
that
feed
of
Abra-
"
barn
fruftrate,
that
is
not
to
be granted
:But the
rejection
of
the
Jewes
"
from being
Gods Ifrael,
and
the
feed
whom
he will
bleff'e,
maketh
«his
word
in
vaine,Ergo.The
reafon
which confirmeth this
affumprion
"is
to be gathered from the Apoftles anfwer fuch
as
are the
Iitael,
"
whom
God
hath loved, and chofen,
and
promifed to
bleffe or ever,
«fuch
cannot be rejected,
but the word
of
God
will be made fruftrate;
"
but,
Paid
they,
we are
Gods 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 promifed
his
perpetual! prefence with
"
them,
and bleffing
towards them
:
The
word here meant,
is
fuch
a
f
word
as
taketh
effect
in
that part
of
the
Lewes
whom God
did know
"
before,
and
is
ftill
madegood
in
them
;but the
word
ofthe
legali cove
-.
"
nant
is
abrogated
ro
all
the
chofen
of
the
Iewes. Secondly;leremie
de-
"dared
the word of the
legall covenant
tò
be
made
in vaine,
yet
did
"not
this give place
to
fuch
an
objeétion,that Godsword to
his people
"was
made
of
noneeffeót.
Againe,
the Apoftle
his
anfwer
was
direct,
the word
is
made
by
mans finne in vaine
;
and to have
informed thew
"in
the true end
of
the word
of
the Law,
and
not to anfwer
them, that
"the
word
of
the 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
of
Cheefe. Againe,we
fee
"
that
Paul
doth
not
intimare
the
rejection
of
the
Lewes, as
from righte-
«
oufneffe and life, as
they were followers
of
the law, which
is a
point
"
he
commeth to
in
the beginning
of
the next Chapter; but
he confide-
"
reth
them,
as
part
of
Ifrael,
and
the
feede
of
Abraham
oncly
:
for
had
«
this beene
the thing
in
which theygrounded themfelves,
if
thofe who
"follow
the Law be rejected, Gods
word
is
come to nothing, then
fhould
not
Paul
have
anfwered,
all
who
are from Ifrael, are not Ifrael;
"
all
who
are
Abrahams feede,
are not children
;
but
all
who
follow the
"
Law
are
not the truelfrael to whichGod
did rye himfelfe by promife.
"
Secondly;
Ir
is
plaine, he
intimateth their rejection,
as
they were the
"
people
of
the Iewes,
as
they
were denominated
the
Ifrael
of
God,
"
which may be gathered from
the
firft
verfe
of
the eleventh
chapter.
« Hark
God
raft
away
hit
people
?
Godfrbid.
lam
an
Ifraelite,
of
the
feede
«ofAbraham,afthe
tribe ofBenjam
in.
Thirdly
,No
godly
faithful) ones
"
could thinke
the word
of
God
falfified,
if
fuch as did feede juftificati-
"on
in
the
Law
by the
workes
of
it, were
rejected; but the
Apoftles
"
and
godlieft
a
while were exercifed with this
doubt, they
could not
"
fee
how it
could ftand with
Gods word,that Ifrael
fhould
beforfaken,
"
and
the Gentiles
called
:
It
is
certaine therefore,
that
he
doth
intimate
"the
rejection
of
the Iewes,
as
thofe
who
had beene
the
Ifrael
of
God,
and