~.;., not capable of a11y mixture or coalefcenry with them, no, 1101 at Table : fMl:J'i" iXMrp tava -reg.-mi\Hs "'""''~' -ro =e<J.-m:•· In PJiher you have the fame intimated, eh. 3· 8. There is acertain People (fpeakmg of the. Jews) fcattered abroad, and dij]m:fed amo"g the 'People, whofe Laws are diverfc jro11t all People, &c. . . 3· The Gentiles accufed them as Enemies ro all Nations ; fo in that of Dio– 'dorus, fM1lti iovoav, that they wif/id well to 1/0ne; and not only fo, 1rj>/\tpl•s ;.,,_ A«j<jbcfvav ?Jilv"T<Xs, to accom# all .othert Enemiet•. So alfo Tacitus, lib. 5· Adverjiu omms alios hojlile odi11111, an hofhle anddeadly Hatred is in them againfl: all others; yea, l"ariv.Sp"'""'' Haters of Mtinkind; fo alfo it follows there in Diodoms. Tis ftrange the Apofl:le fi10nld exprefs it in the very C1me manner, and near the fame word%They are CQntrary to all Mw, and God they plciifc not, .I ThefT. 2. 16, 17. 4· As they founded their Hatred againll: tbc Gentiles on this, that they were Wodhippers of other . Gods; fo the Gentiles accufed and <;lctefl:ed them, as Bojles immortalium Deormil, Enermes pf the rmmortal Gods. And Religion was the caufe of all ,this, thefe Rrtes here.were the Partiti01J-Wall. And hfl:ly; Under the Notion of fuch a manner of Per(ons as thefe, were they univerfally hated by oll Nations, as the Books of the Prophets do fhew, ef– pecially Eze/{jel and ]eremy, where the Cup. iscarried to all Nations, for no other Crime than their Enmity to the Jews; likewife.the Books of Effher and Ezra : And accordingly perfecuted they were upon that account ; banifhed our of Rome again and again, as by Claudius, Al1t 16. ;>o. fo by other Emperqrs 0 and at Jail: they deftroyed both their City and CQmmon-Wealth. · , 1 You haye feen the Enmities of both ; and ~as . there n~t c~ufe to wifh and pray, as David, Pfol. I4· upon the like occafion, 0 that the -Salvation (or Saviour and Meffiah) were come mit of Ston, or, The Dejre of. all Nations were rome. This for the Story of their Enmity before their Converfion ; that of their Enmity and Diffentions that continued afrcr, tho proper to this, yet comes more litly in, and cannot be disjointed from the third part of this Difcourfe, where it "'ill have its place in order, to fhew, How thofe Enmities were actually allayed and compofed between them ? PART II. What hath bem done 011 t/;e Perjim of Chrtfl himfelf 011 t!Je Croft, l>ir~ wally,- and reprefentatiwly, towards our (j(ecotzciliation mutual? A twofold 'J{econciliation bewlmi the Saints themjdws, i11 aiid by Cln·ift; held forti> i1H/Je Words, imd diftingr~ijhed. T' His fecond is to unfold the Tranfal.tions, by which Chrifi bath virtually flai~ and abolifhed all this Enmity, and procured this Peace. . Now to make w~y. fo~ tl;le difl:inl.t handling of what belongs to this fecond Head, from what i~to follow in the third, and to Cever.the one from the other, 1 defire, that in the Tex! this Difference may be obfei:Ved, between the things that Chrifl: harh done for the effeCl:ing a.Hd accomplifhment of that Peace. 1. What was .t~anfaaed ahd:donefi~ply,and abfl:raa:ly in his ~wn Perf;n ~lone for the procurement of it, on the Crofs. · . ' 2. What he works efficiently_in us,. (rho concretely, in Himfelf, upon us) by his Spirit, and throu&h Pro.vidences, to the full accomplifhment rhereo£ .\ _> • • ,_. 't. ' . ) ' '. . _The lirfl:.of,thefe belongs to this fecond Head, the la1t of rhefe takes up the thtrd Head. · . · · , ,.. · .. . Only for the clearing of this Method, I fhall defire it may be noticed, how. evidently in the Text the(e two forts ofworkings by Chrill: are difl:inguifhed each from other, and ranged there in the Order I have propofed them. ; , C 2 Here 11 'l
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