(will ye+fay)_doe thou turtre7eavA Pod forbid.I dreame not of that rcturue which as yet they do,,:hat they may renew the Tern- pie, reftore the Ceremonies, and pioffeffe the land in tinges ¡nit, promifed and given as an earneft, of theheavenly, (Zhge things are eternally buried, not .worneoútbytime, but utterly aboli4ed by Chrift.) But I fpeak of a reoring to their. Country,wherin they . exalt worlhip Chrift according to his Ordinances: which isnot con- trary to Religionevery one knoweth, and all the Prophets feeme to foretell it with one confent.When I think hereof,it feemeth no light Argument, that until! this day that people remaine (although dn.- petted through the whole world) divided and teparated from the Nations with whom they live. A thing truely wonderfuil marvel- lous, but that it appearesplainely tobe Gods doing. We know the. Gerhe.r, Vandals, Hunnes, and very many other Nations, forfaking their Countries, have alto changed their fpeech, names, and natures. So that (were it not for letters) theycannot be difcerned fromshe people of the Country with whom they live. But the /elves, (like the River Roane in the poole Lau/sne) tuffer none of our cuitomes tobe fanned on them, but in the midet of us,.keepe their old name and Ordinance : would we know the cautè r Fire Grid would have them; for the fate of his.defpifed Sonne, be a ffeaacle to the world : then alto to advifeus , lea the people commonly accounted fiaperffitious, fhouid perhaps make faving doctrine fufpecîed by their contenting. Laftly, that he might make plaine his infinite and unmearurable favour and, truth at length, in .refiaring this people. 4 ëtWe far dïgrefted from our ,pu.tpofe, but not altogether i a nto .ya ge matter, and . whereof a briefe Declaration was nece.ifary. `' ërñg then that HeJhbon is to beproperly taken ; know that it was once a City beyond Jordan, common to the Gadite.s and the Rube- nires, Plumb. 21. 26, 27, 28. At firth Noble, known by the Pro- verb, and once the Palace of Sihon : which City feemcrhtoteact the recovery of their old pon1ion, ofwhofeEaltern coaff this City is placed as it were the Metre-Bone.. Andmoll fitly are the eyes compared toFiíhpooles, not fo much for the cleereneffe, which flaeweth the brightneffe.of the water, as for the abundance of teares flowing from true repentance. Jere. 31, 9, 18, 19. Ifay. 6.Lrch4r. a 2. 1o. Neither v ithout cause, likewiseare the gates mentionedby which thefe Fifhpooles are fea- red : which as they are called Barhrabbim , the daughters of many, or ofa multitude, moil frequented by refort ofpeople: fo they teach that
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