to the E PH E S I AN S. tt!rs believed, that is the Context,) they beld tbrir peace mtd glorified God,~· fnJ•i 11g, then bath God givm alfo u11to the Gmttles repwtance tmto ltje; they Strm.XIr. frlt down mtdglorijitdGod. Here Jew and Gtntt!e, that would not eat one~ with another before, are mnde friends; now the.>: eat together at the fame Table, at the fame Lord's Supper. Now there_ IS one llo~y , one Supper, one Sacrament, one God, one Lord Jefus Chnfi, both J ew and Gmttle one. · r 1 h d" ·r Go over particulars; Amongfi the .'1ews them,e ves t ere were great IVlllcns: There was the ten Tribes oppolite to the two Tnbes, Ephraim and Ju– dt~hcxtreamly oppolite; you have it I(m·,ll. q. He fpeaks there of the envy. of Ephraim, and how they were adverfaries to .'1ud,th; but I Will order It fo,falth he, that thu11vy of Ephrt~imjhatldrpart, mtd the t~dvrrft~nes of 'Judah {bat! 6e cut off;, Ephraim jhalt not mvy Jt•dah, and Judt~h Jhalt not .vex Ephratm. This is in Chrifr,for ifyou mark lt,he fpeaks of the [<ootof .'1effe m the 10 ~erfe. Here now both thefe are reconciled. You have the hke, Ezek.l7·I9· there IS two Sticks,the one is E)hraim,and the other is Jtidah; Take theje Sticks,faith he,a11d make themOIJt; for I wilt makt themottt Nt~tto1l,andthryjhatthave.one King, a11d they jball be 110 mort dzvidrdinto two Kwgdoms. You may read It there at large, ver[1I,22,24· And you read how thefe are fcattered as dry Bo11es qfe to be · fo as none knows who thefe Jrws of the Tell Trtbes are: as m a Charnel– houf;, none knows wha; Bones are of fuch and fu,h men. Thefe are the wholt Houje of lf'ael, faith God to the Prophet, v, rr. B<»us th~t were dried, their hope loft and cut off, and they fcattered one fr~m another. WeB, you heard thatthe Gmtiles were d1fperfi one. amongfi anothet, and had a thoufand Religions: by the death of Jefus Chnfr they are all gathered into one. Take one place for it, it is J~hn I 1.50,p. 'fhe High-Priefi there pro· phefying or Chrifi's death, and thewmg the end of It, fauh he, It u ttea.f{ilry that .'1efusjboztld dit for thi; Natio11, (for the Jews.) And wbat followeth,added by the Evangelifi ? (it may be it was the prophecy of the High-Priefi at that time; but this followeth,) A11d 11ot for thi; Nation only, bttt that ·alfo he /bottld gather togethrr in o11e the Children of God, that wereJCattertd abroad: All the Gemiles that were fcattered,fcattered in Place, fcattered in Religion; thus divi– ded, Chrifi dieth to gather them together in one all them that belong to God's Eledion,both in thatAge,and in all Ages to the end of the World.Therefore now when Chrifi came into the World you have it fulfilled; in the Apofrles rim; there was as many gods as Men 1 as many gods as Cities , as many gods as Fami– lies, I Cor. 8. 5· Thert art lords mmiJ a11d gods mmty, as many as there were things in Hraven mtd things;, Earth, (as I faid before he intimateth it there ) their Religion lay in having lords, that were Mediators unto their gods. Bt;t fatth he now to us, there is bttt 011e God a11d there is but o11e Lord. This alte~ ration did God make in the very Apofrle's times. A!ld• (my Brethren) let me add this to It, Smce the greatefi part of the World, It bath one God, though it have not one Lord : the Tud?.S and we have one God, we have not one Lord in· deed; but yet over all Turky, over all the Roman Empire, there is frill one God to thi• day, .andthofe H7athen &ods they are. all gone. Thus he bath gathered together thmgs mEarth m one, m Jefus Chnfi; he bath reconciled the Nations, and he will never leave till fuch time as he bath been the God of the whole Earth, of the whole World. He faith,I{ai.II,5• when both Jew and Gmti!e fl1all come in, that the Earth/baD6tfuU of the •k11owledge of thr Lord M the waters cover the Sea. J{ai.54+ he faith, thatthe Redeemer, the hptY 011e of lfrael,jhaO6t caOed the God of the wholt Earth. '1Jall,7·'4•"-7• he faith, there jb.1ll come a Kmgdom, aftrr aO tbe Kittgdoms, after the fourth Monarchy, which rs now a defiroying,. (for the .Popt is the !aft Head of it,) thrre jbaO come •a Kmgdom of all Naltolls,mtdTongtus, and Lmtg11ages, and they jball (erve him, · a~d lv. fha_ll poj[tji all the Ki11gdoms tinder tbe whole Heavms ; (it is not a K•ngdom 10 Heaven.) He jbatt gather at! in o11e, and there Jbatl be 611t 011~ K tt,gdom, a11d o11e Lord thorough the wholr Earlh. Th'is God will do in the end. Thus you fee, I fay, that Jefus Chrifi hath reconciled all on Earth 1 he hath made them up all again; he meaneth to do it l:>y the virtue of his death. · y :z. Well,
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