Chap. 2 9. The Old an. d New Covenpnt. 2 .} Thirdly , I fay, the expreflion. mentioned of my people or people of God , is ufed more frequently in the New Teflament in the Old Teftament. latitude , then with reflriccion to the Llec5 Regenerate. That in 2 Cor. b. 16. with me is plaine ; I will dwell with' them and wall¿ in them and I will be their God, and they fall be my People, quoted out of an Old Teflament -Scri- pture, Levit. 26..16. and there .it is a nationall Promife , and here to be underftood of Gods vifible abode in. Ordinances , as may be made out from the context being tendered to thofe that . were over. -bufie to meddle with Idols,. from which he diffw,ad,es with this argument , that they were the Temple of the Lord, fe- parate of God for his worfhip and fervice and the Promife is no more then is made good to vifible Churches ; Chrif: wales in the midi of the, fëven Golden candlefiicIZs Rev. 2.1. and fome of them ( witneffe that of Sardi?) had not all their Members Regenerate perfons. That of the Apoflle, Rom. 9, 25. I will call them my people, which were not my people, and her beloved, which way not beloved , is to be underflood no otherwife ; where that of the Prophet of the call of the ten Tribes, from Hof, I. to. Hof. 2. 23. is applied to the call of the Gentiles into a -. Church-flate and condition. Neither is that of force againft it, that is - objected from verfe 23. where the Apoftle faith That be might makf known the riches of bis glory on the ve ff elr of mercy , which he had ,afore prepared unto glory, God fets up vifible Ordinances , and calls to a Church- ft:ate as is there prophecied , that, he may there work, . to himfeif a people of inviable relation, that thereby hemay make them veffels of mercy , having afore prepared them unto glory ; fo likewife Rev t3, 4.. Conte out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her fnnes , and, t. hat- ye re- ceive not of ber plagues. All profeffours of Faith's and woe fhippers of the true God, are there included in that "ex- hortation to quit Babylon ; fo all Miniflers- of Chrifl are to urge and preffe it ; Men therefore of vifible profefï- on , have this title in compellation from G O D of my- people. It is yet obje&ed, 7eremiah ÿi. 31, 32, 33, Behold the days come ., faith the LORD that I ;Till m k ( "new Covenant with the bah fe ,f lfrael, and with the l/orsíè of Judah -, not 46.4 cording.
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