ObieE ions takenfrom teJ?:monies mfScrípture,asrered 70 ele6ted to faluation. Andverf.7. I fraelbath not obtainedthat .hefought : that is,thewhole people ofIfrael; but the eleHi- on(that is, fo many as were eleóIed) bath obtained it, andthe ref?haste beenhardned. The other,namely, that he fpeaketh ofthe wholepeopleand Churchof the Iewes,andnotdithe faithfull,it is fo cleere in it felfe,that it .needethnoborrowed light to illuftrate it ; feeing in this whole Chapter he rea- foneth ofthereie&ion ofthe Ifraelites, froni being theviii.. ble Church and people of God, and ofthe calling of the Gentiles. But force will fay,that the Apoftle calleth them naturall branches,' and therefore before theirbreakingoff, they were the true members of Chri 1. Ianfwere, that the Apoflle doth not call themnatural,to diftinguifh them from dead and fruitleffe branches, but from the wild branches which were the Gentiles, who offirangers and aliants were called to bee the Church and people ofGod : whereas the Iewes whohad a long timebin planted in thevifible Church were broken off and reieo`Ied. By breaking offthen ofthe naturali branches we are notto vnderíland the reie&ion of the true members ofChrift and the vifible Church,who are the faithfitll and ele6t, but ofthe outward members ofthe vifibleChurch, whobeing externallycalled,made profefiîon of.religion, but yet in themeane timewere deftitute of the power thereof, and of all fauing grace. For the Apofile faithofthispeoplewho were thus reie6ted, that Godhadgi- uen them the fpirit offlum6er, eies that theyfhould notfee, and tares that theyAmidnot heareveto this day, verf.8. and that they were broken off through vnbeleefe, whereby they were fowholly poffeffed,thattheywouldnot receiue neither Chrifl nor hisGofpell, verf.2o. and that they did notall this of infirtnitie but through obftinacie, verfe 25. profefling themfeluesenemiesto the Gofpell, as it is verf.28. The eleuenth place is Rom.t4.i5. Deftroy not him with 4,Sc¿ir,i; thymeate for whomChri tdied. The like place is, r.Cor.8.i i . Rom. I 4. t S. end through thy knowledgefhall thy wake brotherperifh, for z.Cor.8.t s. whomChrif?died.Fromwhichplaces they thus reafon : Thofe Forwhom for whom Chrifl died maybe deflroyed and perifh:but fuch hÿáue see d areele6ed and indued with faith : therefore fogne elected Zz and
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