Fifthly, The earth is_put for earthly minded men, and forthe - ialfe Church, Revel.i^. 3. The Saints are redeemedfrom the tarthyl that is,God hath fetcht them out from amongft falfe worfhippers and impure one's, he hath refcued them from the world, of Idola- terS;5ahd from the fuperltitious multitude. In-this place tank is to be underftood in the fecond, third , or fourth notion,, namely, for all earthly comforts; or for the Provinces and Kingdoms o f the earth ; or for the inhabitant's. and people ofit-he earth, ffhefe art .given into the hand of the chap. p-. AH'B.xpojiiidfittpontheBook.of J!0 B. Verfi 24Given.']The Lord makes(as it wejre>:deedofgift of thele things fcjjjto wicked men. So in the 15/6 of this book, v. ip . Vnto whom alone the earth was given, and noftranger faffed among them', whic h fome expound of the righteous, -No firangerfaffed among themv that isrnone came to invade them : Or^ as others render it, No Jlfange thing, that is, no unjuft thingcame in amongft them, they had the earth in their own‘powef and-rightful pdffelfion. • Kb ldi mm ' To’*>s gwen, n®teth two things s orJthcre is a double ad of . fc„/njtffJani.. jun, f given., There is; a gift by providence, and agift by promife. When the Lord is faidto,givethe earth into the handofthe, wicked, we are, to underftand it of that common providentiall gift whereby he difpofeth of all things to all men ■, no man hath any thing but by the gift of God. Thus wicked Jereboamhad the Kingdome of Iff. Yael given him,and fohad hypocritical! jhteforfour generations, ‘Ibcyfecmd tkefrovidence ofGod, and the providence of Godexalt ed them. (Ad. ij.26-)Hehath made ofone bloodall Nations^ ofmem,for to dwell on-all the face of the-earth^ andhaiffdeteimined'the time before appointed^'aud'the b&unds-oj iheir-habit'atio'n that is, he hath (as it,were ) chalked out, and drawn a line where the hounds and habitations, whither the dominions and pofleflioris of fuch men flaall be,extended, and where1 they {hall be confined. That’s a gift of providence. There, is,aifpecial gift ofpromifopeculiar to'Jttktvett(Ile.8.32«j} He thatJpared not his own Son,but gave him to diefor us,howJhall ■henot with.him alfofreely give us all things ? that is, all worldly thingsjor we may take in whatfoever elfe concerns our fpiritual e- ftite,bdidesChrifr:all the things ofChrift,yca Soil worldly things e onaftinroThe Saints,1as a-gifakf Ghrijl,wboit himfelf the greateft .gift that, everman received, or-that God could befiow, .Howjhall be
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