Amisommoi 320 The Birth- Pr°iviledge.and Covenant- bolineJ Ch. 3 8 Firft, That of a Tent which is the habitation of fojourners, Gen. 9.27. God 'hall inlerge Japhet, and he 'hall dwell in the Tents of Shem and Canaan 'hall be his fervent. Shems Tents muff be poffeft by 3aphet, and not others built for their habitation.; The Tents of Shrm of his pofterity by eflbraham (which lappet, that is the Gentiles by a fpeciall bleffing did poffeffe) is the Church vi- fible as needs no proof; Shems and 3aphets are one and the fame , 3aphet comes to Shems, not Shem to lappets. Secondly, That of a Sheep-fold, Job. i o, 16. Other 'beep 'have which are not of this fold , them alto 1 muß bring, and they !hall hear my voice and there (hall be one fold, and one fhepherd , The Sheep that in prefent were in the fold and thofe not yet taken in all . make up one and the fame fold ; which though fome may limit to the Church invifible becaufe Chrift gives notes of thofe that are indeed his fheep,but that is no Argument at all; Ch (peaks to thofe that were Difciples only according to profeffion, and -gives notes, lob. 8. 31. of Difciples indeed; and it is agaitift all reafon , that Chrift fhould in difcourfe point out the invifible Church with the demonitrative This, and that to thofe that were. Malignant enough in the Church vifible the Pharifees, as appears in the clofe of the former Chapter. And the mention of theeves creeping into it , hirelings e /nployed in it Both contradict it. The vifible Church of the Jewes and Gentiles, in which Chrift bath true fheep for whom he dies, and others that theeves and hirelings do deceive , makes up one fheep- fold. Thirldy, By a natural body, z Cor. 12.13. Mans body molt aptly to our purpofe, that one new man, Ephef. 2, 1$. is the vi- fible body compact of both Jew and Gentile. Fourthly, To adde no more, that of a Kingdome, Mat.8.i r. illany (hall come from the Eafl andwefl,and'hall fit down with Abra- ham, Ifaac and Jacob in the Kingdome of Heaven. The fame King- dome that Jewes leave, Gentiles enter , Matth, 21. 41, 43. The Kingdome of God fhall be taken fromyou, and given to a Nation bring- ' ing forth the fruits thereof. That can be no more then the prefence of God in Gofpel - Ordinances , which is without fruit among Jewes (all invifible Members bring forth fruit) and upon that account is given to the Gentiles ; neither is it of force that Mafter Tomces fayes, "`Then we noun be Circt mcij ed. As though we may not be in the fame Kingdome, and yet under a new way of Ad- mini-
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