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ObieE
ions
taken
from
teJ?:monies
mfScrípture,asrered 70
ele6ted
to
faluation. And
verf.7.
I
frael
bath
not obtained
that
.he
fought :
that
is,the
whole
people
of
Ifrael; but
the
eleHi-
on
(that
is,
fo
many
as
were
eleóIed)
bath
obtained
it, and
the
ref?
haste been
hardned.
The other,namely,
that
he fpeaketh
ofthe
whole
people
and Church
of
the
Iewes,and
not
dithe
faithfull,it
is
fo
cleere
in
it
felfe,that
it
.needeth
no
borrowed
light
to
illuftrate
it
;
feeing in
this whole Chapter
he
rea-
foneth
of
thereie&ion
ofthe
Ifraelites, froni
being
the
viii..
ble
Church
and
people
of
God,
and
of
the
calling
of
the
Gentiles. But
force
will
fay,that
the Apoftle calleth
them
naturall branches,' and therefore before their
breaking
off,
they
were the
true
members
of
Chri
1.
I
anfwere,
that the
Apoflle
doth not
call
them
natural,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
who
had
a
long
time
bin
planted
in
the
vifible
Church
were broken off
and
reieo`Ied.
By
breaking
offthen
ofthe
naturali branches
we
are
not
to vnderíland the
reie&ion
of
the true
members
ofChrift
and
the
vifible
Church,who are
the
faithfitll
and ele6t,
but ofthe
outward
members
ofthe
vifible
Church, whobeing
externally
called,made profefiîon
of.
religion,
but
yet
in
the
meane timewere deftitute
of
the
power thereof,
and
of
all
fauing grace. For the Apofile
faith
of
this
people
who
were thus reie6ted,
that
God
hadgi-
uen them
the fpirit
o
fflum6er,
eies
that
they
fhould not
fee,
and
tares
that
they
Amid
not heare
veto
this
day,
verf.8. and
that
they were
broken
off
through
vnbeleefe, whereby
they
were
fo
wholly poffeffed,that
theywould
not
receiue
neither
Chrifl nor
his
Gofpell, verf.2o. and
that
they did
not
all
this
of
infirtnitie
but
through
obftinacie,
verfe
25. profefling
themfelues
enemies
to
the Gofpell,
as
it
is
verf.28.
The
eleuenth
place
is
Rom.t4.i
5.
Deftroy
not
him
with
4,Sc¿ir,i;
thy
meate for
whom
Chri
t
died.
The
like place is,
r
.Cor.8.i
i
.
Rom.
I
4.
t S.
end
through
thy knowledgefhall thy
wake brother
perifh,
for
z.Cor.8.t
s.
whom
Chrif?died.From
which
places
they thus
reafon
:
Thofe
For
whom
for whom Chrifl died
may
be deflroyed and
perifh:but
fuch
hÿáue
see
d
are
ele6ed
and indued
with faith
:
therefore
fogne
elected
Z
z
and