1o A SERMON on , And can we think the Gentiles were behind hand with them ? and yet the truth IS, the.Gentiles were the more moderate ofthe two, as the I Jth Verfe he and the Parable ofthe good Samaritan, that poured Oil into a Stranger's Woun~e, and the Story of the Samaritan Woman, all !hew ; for !he lays fault on the Je s, that he would not ask Water of a Samaritnn, and not e contra. It were tw, much to reckon up all that might be, _out _of their Poets and Hiflorians. rw'ffi bur fo far make mentton of fome Tefl1momes of the Gentiles Hatred againfl the Jews, as they make up a Parallel with what bath been fa1d of the Jewifh Enmity agamfl the Genttles; thereby to mamfefl, that the Gentiles were even with them if not in Malice, yet in Jeers and Scorns. . r. Did the Jews reproach them as uncircumcifed, as you heard ? The Gen– ttles, on the contrary, fcorned the Jews as much for Circumcifion, calling them ·., S<rm, P•· .ApeUM, Jud.em ApeDa-; Curtos, fo*Horace; 7i.:cutitos, fot 1'vfttrtial; and IJ Perfi~n ~~Lil·,. Verpos, as alloJuvenal. ThereisWitinthefe, but founfeemly, as! muflforbea; us.,. ~· to Englilh them. They were Jeers at their Circumcifion. 2. Did the Jews abhor the Gentiles, and not converfe with them ? The Gen– ;,;::~;·;;:;,_ tiles, on the mh~r fide, would hold their Nofes at the Jews, when they met chr,p(J, c. 3· them, and cry, Ftetentes Judteo.r, fi:mkmg Jews: i Vel fortmtum eontm occ11rjimt ,t.~~;:~· A•· omlis l>orrebam, animo perfequebantur : They abhorred the Sight of them, if by Ammian. a~ chance they met them. And, Mmo, '''·"· 3· Efleemed them of all Nations the worfl: So ;)ltarcm the Emperor, but palling through Judd!a to Egypt, and obfervmg their Manners, do/enter d1citur exclama./Je, 0 Mt1rcoma1mi, 0 ~.tdi, 0 Sarmat£, tandem alioJ vobis deterior.es inveni; which was, as if when we would exprefs the Wretchednefs of any Nation we accounted mofl vile, lhould fay, 0 you Cannibals, yea, barbarous Savages, that are found amongfl the wildefl Afrh 1111 or Americans, we have at length found and light upon a Generation of Men worfe by far than you. In this manner cloth he fpeak of thefe Jews. 4· As the Jews turned it into a Curfe to be a Gentile, as you heard ; (o the Gentiles in their Curfings turned the like upon the Jews. Jer. 24- 9· .tlnd I wiU deliver them to be removed into aU the Kingdoms of the Earth for their hurt, to he.t Reproach, and a 'Proverb, and a Taunt, and a C11rje, m all 'Places whither I foal! drive them. It was God's own retaliation upon them, and fulfilled. As we now, (o the Heathen then imprecated on themfelves, I were a Jew, if I did fo or fo; and thus in all 'Flares, as the Prophet hath it; yea, Jer. 42. 18. they were made an Execration, an .As1onifhment, ami a C,rfe. Wh•t can be more? 5· As they efleemed all other Nations as Dogs and Beafls, the Gentile doth the like by them, and reckons them but as Swine, the mofl contemptible of Beafls, and this in a witty Retortion from the Jewilh PraCtices, :J(;c dijlare p11tant lmmana carne jitilfa,, putting this Interpretation upon their forbearance to eat Swines flelh, that Man– kind and Swine were alike to them. 6. As they hated all Nations, fo the Gentiles refented accordingly this Catholick Spirit in the Jew againft them all, which turned their Hearts univerfally to hate them. Ahajiterll< bad one hundred and twenty feven Provinces, amongfr which the Jews (as we read ) had Enemies in them all, Ejlher 8. 9· & 9· 16. compared, whom the King's Letters reflrained with difficulty from falling on them in every Nation. And they accufe and arraign the Jews, I. As hurtful to Kings and Provinces, Ezra 4· I5· as continually moving Se– dition; in the fame place, Ezra 4· I5. They are a 'People, that of old time have moved Seditiotz. And the fame Afperfion went cnrrant among the Romans and . . Greek! many hundred years after : Theft Men being J<~Ps, do exceedingly trouble ~?~~-.~·,:· 011r City, ACts I6: 2ci. fay the 'Philippians to the Magiflrates of_ the CttyThey .,.w, ;a,;, J.. lay their Accufauon, that It was the Gem!# of the Nauon : It IS the•r known XAJtvov~TI:I'f ,f_ cufl:offi fo to do: . ' :';';:,:le,:'?~- 2. As' unfociabie to the refl of Mankind. Antiochm'sFriends in * Diodonu, tu~i«. pleaded thus againft the Jews~ That the; alone of aU Nattons were ~tnfociable, and not
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