Chap. 19. e/ln fxpofitioso upon the Book of J o B. Verf. 15. 255, Fifthly, This word fgnifies a Profelyte, who was not ori- Eadem viz ginally of the people of Ifrael, but aGentile , or a ítrahger by bsirtior5 nt birth , yet receiving Circumcifion was looked upon as one of eos quo: or &ui them, and admitted to the priviledges of the ?ewes. The word rrecañxad> is rtfed in that fence ( xtiod. 12. 48. ) when a ftranger (hall re- vacant, ilor, f. j'urne with thee aidwill keepe theTaffeover to the Lord, let all his g á ncngenet ,'e , 7h fs d,'Y a : males be circnmci!ed, and then let him come neere andkeepe it. Of tine iniueti inch'C rt í cakes ( 21,1at. 23. .) krae unto you Scribes and prl:rebanutr Pharifees hypocrites, forye compaffesea and land to make one prop- fadaiftnurn,& ly te, ( chat is, to bring one into the Jewish Religion) and when he csrctttnct(on?an ú made,yee make him twofoldmore the childe ofhell thenyour [elves; Bold, for (to open that difficulty onely in paffage) though feducers are fevenfold the children of hell more then the leduced, bare, lv foconsidered in which regard the feducing Pharifees were the elder Ions ofSatan, or more the Eons of Satan then the fe- duced profelytes; yet becaufe young profelytes who drinke in falfe opinions , or fuperftitions , at the p"erfwaftóns of others,: are usually farre more taken with them and more zealous for them , then their perfwaders ( we have feene many novices very violent, and even to out-ad their leaders) hence it is (as I con- ceive) that Chrift faith, that the old Pharifees made the young profelytes two-fold more the children of hell,then themfelves feeing . by how muchany doe the more advance the defigneofhell, by fo much the more are they advanced in their portion in hells Double werke fball have double wages. But to returne ; though fome profelytes were at once converted and perverted, or tun-, ned from what they were towhat they should not be,. yet many were indeed converted from what they were, to what they thould be ; And 'tis fuppofed, that the Pfalmift includes thofe ( Pfd. 118. 2, 3, 4.) Amongall forts that are invited to praife the Lord. Firft, the whole body of the Jewish Nation, (ver.2. ) Let Ifrael now fay, &c. Secondly, thePriefts and Levites (ver.3.) Let the houfe ofAaron fay , his mercy endurethfor ever. Thirdly, theprofelytes, (verf: 4.) Let them now that feare the Lord fay, that hid mercyendurethfor ever. Some who were not either ofthe houfe,of Aaron; that is, of the Priefts or Levites,; nor of the houfe ofIfrael, thatis, native ?ewes, yet might be of the Jewish Religion, and feare the Lord. All fuch were called Trofelytes, and therefore they alfo were invited to praife the Lord. Some under
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