h. ;7. of the gie of °Beleevers. you a call, he had fpoke to Mailer rom6es his purpofe; but laying, To you, and to as many a4 the Lord -ur god fhall call ; it plainly fhewes that he does not limit, but amp :Lie the mercy, extending it not barely to the Jewes (who in prefent by reafon of fruitioc of Ordinances were a people near to the Lord, Pfd. t +g iq,) bu alto to theGentiles,who Ephef. 2.17. were afarre off, 2. In that he faith, this promife belongs to them not (imply as Jewes, but as called, is a full contradiction; A Jew uncalled (at this time be- fore the Kingdome was taken from them) is as much as a convert unconverted,or a Gentile difciple undifcipled : In cafe he think to come off by limiting it to an etfeetual cali,the Scripture by himfelf quoted,doth evidently contradict it,Chrift came to give them:that effectual calling, and not onely to thofe that were thus called, He yet laid, Peter doth exhort to repentance, and Baptifine together, and to the find place perfwades to repentance, then to Rapti/me, which fhewes repentance tole in order before Baptifine. To which I an- fwer,that thofe who had crucified Chrift as a blafphemèr, a fediti- ous perlon, an impollor, mull needs repent before they would ac- cept Baptifine in his name, or hope for remiflion of finne bÿ him; it had Beene loft labour for the Apoftle to have preffed thole that had crucified Chrift, and retained their former opinion of him, to become difciples to him, and to look to be faved by him, to per - (wade them to look for remiffion of finnes in his blood , who took themfelves to be without finne in fhedding of ir; and yet notwithftanding this guilt(of which the Apoftle would have them to repent) he fhewes that they and their feed are under the pro- mile of God, and puts them into a way in acceptation of Chrift the Gofpel- tender, in his prefent way of adminiftration to be continued his people í1i11 in Covenant, and that (as is plainly e- nough fignified) that they might enjoy it in their former latitude, to them and to their children, The promife (of which they were not yet difpo(feft, but flood as a people of God in vilible Cove- nant, and their children) is here brought as a motive to encourage them to hold correfpondency with God (as his Covenant people) embracing the way which their long expelled, and defired Mefliatt had now inflituted and appointed. Matter Tombes hash yet his evaíon, and faith, The text 'peaks not -ex re el of :r, ants but of children indefinitely ; And if infants be not children we will be con- tent that they be caft out of Covenant, and will hold no more plea Nn for i ì i
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