Ch. 3 6. óf the : ue ofrnee2}ers. upon the rejeffion of.themm : And becaufe ipefhaps it may better take with Máfer lombes ; I fnall give him an Expofition of this Text from a more able Penne, above the fufpicion of an 1.,4rmi- pian, namely GomarnA , who (having in his Analyfis on that ,C hap. fpokento the J2wes objeftion and the Apofiles anfwer) makes this inference ; a F, o ;, r'her,ce (faith he) the Apof les a Unite per p/ conclufon (in which he denies that cods word concerning the Cove- cua eft Apoftoti slant pith Abraham and his f ed 5 and the blt ff ng and falvaticn by f eatentia , gill the promifed Mefliah, Gal. 3. 17. di ai fall, or become void) ú rani_ alegatur excide felt, though thegreatell rart of the 'Jews be /hut out from Chrift' and rc (éu it n reddzSermonem accurfed. e.-Ind this he proves by diflinguifhing- Ifraelitesandthe de federe cum feed of Abraham ; and thereby flews that the prom re of God, re e:. Ab. ahamo &ive to the efficacy of it, it is indefinite, and therefore particùlar not femine illiva, univerfall, and fo an univer fill promife cannot rightly from thence Eione & Mute be concluded : For though the Ifraclites for a great part perifb , yet per pro42iffuns that the promife of goad m not thereby made voide appears, in that it Mefliam, Gal. bath its efficacy in i he Elea ; for as he faith vert. 6, All which are 3 17. gtrarnv,r of Ifrael (borne according to the flefh) are not true Ifraelites, to a whom not only the tender of the Covenant of Grace with condition of piss performed; fflo be- duty to be but the heavenly o e "tun and inheritance only nediaione ex- belongs, as in verf. 7. and Rom. 2.2879. tc more fully Amen; Na.. clufa fit Ani - ther becaufe they are the feed of Abraham, are they therefore all chil< tliema. Idqùe dren, or heirs of that ble ng and partakers of the fame race and probatdifa niti onc glory, ae Rom, 4. 12. Gal. 4.2 8. For though thefe things Teem rum &f femi nk contradictory to themfelves and to that alto which was delivered he. Abrahami: e£- Ifore, lehere the eApo/lle affirmes that the unbeleeving 7ews are A_ que ratione o brahamites,and Ifraetlites; not only by reafon of their birthafterthe Rendit Aromia fionem Dei ra tione etficaci illius effe indefinitam ac POI o particularem, non auteur univerfalem, at propterea uni- ver/alem perperam indé conftitui; nom quamvis Ifraelitre plerique pereant , promilionen tarnen Dei minimi reddi irritam indé conftat, quia in electis eft d'cax. Non enim omne,, ut ver. 6. ait, qui runt ex Ifraele -pa tre - prognati fecuudi rn carnem, font.veri illi linerta ad quos fcderis gratia Dei non folúm oblátio cumcondicione offlcii prafiandi ; fed etian callaoio C.9.' hare itas cceleftis reipfâ ,pertineat, ut ver. 7 exponitur clariús, & Rom. 2, 28. 29. wee quc quia en Abraha ìi -f£uo , ides omnes funt frlii feu heredes benedic7ionis illiu,s, cju fle yt gr a,. tia gloriaque participes, Ro. 4. i z. Gal. 4.28. uaravis enim bac videantur 0, inter fe cg' cura fuperioribm pugnare , quibtos docuit Apoftolus judos incredulos elfe Ifraelitas 0' Abrahamitas,non folim origine carnis ,fedetiamratione fcederum 'promifonumacceptarum; nulla eft diifentio. rtfi enim ad omnes Ifraelitas 0' pitres adoptio & federa ac pro3 iIliones pertineant; non propterea tarnen fient omnes veré filii C9 haredes falutis. Illa cairn qua objec7autur, Judxis it delibuz ab Apoftolotribuuntur, guidon ratione vocationis externa (quia fakes its fitb conditions obedientiie MM fie
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