438 TbeSouks eiftilua&:' Chrifte onand pLopie of the Jewes didnot receive hirn ;. indeedTome fewdid receivehim, but thewhole maffeoftheJewes did refufe him, nay they con- fefle it themfelves, as John 7.48. when the rulers had fnt to takeChrift, and in Lead of bringing him, they re turne wondring at him, andfaid,ne- ver man ipake as this man doch, but Paid they, doeany of the rulers, andof theScribes ,and the Pharifees beleeve inhim; it was then the fa hion not tobeleeve inChrift,it was the common road, and the common cafe; nay the finne and curie that lyes upon the Jewes, proclaimes it at this day,they that werehisowne, and arehis owneby election, Rom. I I. ace even they have rejected him,the rout, andcrowd, and the whole frameof the nation refutedhim, refèrving only fonde few: now did they refufè Chrift, anddoe you thinke, that wee are privileged from this finne ? are wee exempted from it ? no furely, theJewes for the maine body ofthemwere unbelecvers, and are weebetter than they ? wee have the fame corrupt natures, and theyhad the fame rneanes that wee enjoy ; nay of them came the lawand the pro- mifes,andofthemChrift carne, yet theybeleeved not ina Chrift, therefore they are broken off, and foare gone fromChrift, and fo from erernall life; it is very true, Chrift hath his time, wherein lice will reveale himfelfe to thefe againe, but as yet they are fallen off fromChrift, though theyhad the truth ; therefore whatmay wee thinke ofour felves, and ifany man thinke that we are better than the Jewes, confider then what the Apoftle prophehed
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