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276 The Birth- Friviledge and Covenant- bolineg Ch.38 ,ing grace and works, Tier(', 6. to the tt. 2. He fpeaks to the Gen- tiles, and to take down their infultation over the Jewes, he (hews that this reje &ion of theirs is not finali. And this as the former is, F. Aflfe rted, verte t i . I fay then, have they humbled that they jhould fall ? (viz. irrecoverably fall) God forbid. 2. Proved by givin6 account of a twofold end of this rejeaion of the Jewes. I. The call of the Jewes, verfe 2. But rather through their fall falvationis cerne unto the Gentiles, for to provoke ,thcm to jea- lou(ie, z. A mole glorious returne of the Jewes in emulation of the Gentiles, verte 17. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminifhing of them the richer of the Gentiles , how much more their fulve jfe ? Hereupon he falls upon a large difcourfe of his zeale toward them and their reingraffing, verte 13, 14, 15. adding the words of the text, If the firfi fruits be holy, the lump alfo is holy, and if the root be holy, fo are the branches. This Para- ' MI makes a farther argument for proof that the Jewes (hall againe be called; Gomarus makes it an encouragement to the Apottle to endeavour their call, howfoever here is a double fimilitude, on drawn from the CeremonialLaw. I f the firfi fruits he holy, the lump is alfo holy._ The other from Nature, If the .root 4e holy, fo are tbe.branches. The firft is only mentioned, the fécond is;large- ly commented upon. In both we fee; 1. A fuppofìtion. 2. An af- firmation. The fuppolition is of thé holineffe of the firft fruits, the holinefTe of the root. The affirmation is, the whole lump is holy, the branches are holy. This la(t is grounded on aprinciple in nature univerfáll y true, e. ís is the root, fo. is the branch, they are both of one and the fame nature; as is the one, fo is the other. Which he applies to the {fate of the Church of God ; firft to the Church of the Jewes, and that i, In their ancient efface when they were a people of God in Covenant - relation holy, fo Riled of finfrcquentlyin Scripture.. 2. In their prefent {fate for a great ¡part broken off, and fo made no people. 3. In their future con - ditionwhen they (hould be called of God, and as it were rifen from the dead. Secondly, he applies it alto to the Gentiles. Lin their ancient eftate as no people. 2, in their prefent eftate made a maple of God_ in the place of the Jewes. 3. In their pofíible emote and condition to be reje&ed and cafe off. On which we may ground feveraiundeniable Poítions, tome concerning the fubjea, root and branch, fomc concerning the predicate, holy,. Firff,A

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