Evangelical Repentance. they were firft taken intoGodsdove? None eyepiticd thee, (at the ,. verfe) to do any of thefe: unto thee, to have compagion on thee. Verfe the-6: . When Ipafred by thee, and fan, thee polluted in thine owablood, Ifaidunto thee when thou waft in thy blood, Live: ye 2,I*raid unto thee when-thou waft in thy blood, Live. And fo it will be with this people the Jews again, when they fhall be converted in the latter dales of the world: TheLord fpeaks faconcerning them by the Prophet Efay : Iwasfoundofthofethatfought me not. And in the 66. Chap- lfa.65 ter of Epy and-the y. verfe, laid concerning the jewes ''that are yet to be called, and the preventing love of God: towards them : Eefore the travailed, fhe brought forth : before her pain came, foe was delivered of a man. child. Thus iris alio with particular Towns in a Kingdom, Or- in a Nation : the kingdom of grace, of heaven is brought :neer to them-. before they do feek to it: The Apoffits a era & preach't unto feveral Towns; Iconium,& Verbe,& Lylira; 'before thofe Towns did call for the-Gofpel. And if you look into the 4. Chapter of Matthew, you find, That our Saviour chrill came anddwelt in Capernaum (at the 13 verfe) whichis upon the fea-coaft, in the borders ofZabulon andNapb- tali: -That-it might be fulfilled which was ffloken by Efails the - Pa ophet, faying, The Land ofZibulon, andthe Land of Nepbta- li, by the way ofthe Sea beyond 7"or dan, Galilee of the Gentiles: The people which fate in daknefi, fan, great light : and to the whichfate in the regionandJhadowof death, light if _Pang up. While they were fitting fill in their fins, and in the very fhadow of death, Chriti goes among them, and caufes a glorious light to thine upon them they did not go out to the light, but the light did come out to them fitli. So 'tis alfo in regardof a particular Family in a Town : 'tis faid concerning the jailors family, that they were all baptized, they all beleeved : but how ? did the Jailors family come and leek after the Kingdom-offleaven, before. the.Kingdom ofHeaven was-brought unto them ? No, The. Apofiles, were brought into prifon, Godworks a miracle; the Kingdom of Heaven,. ',grace, ancLfree.remiffion is brought' AWmaliMmorwowar.e.n.mesOIRTIMII.01604 22V
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