203 / 504
Hof.
2,'v.19,zo, farther opened.
CAP.VI. 4:23,z4.
States He will leave
them neither fubftance,
nor ornament, State,nor
Wor
147
fhip; defcribing
the condition
which came
upon
them,at
their Reje
&ion
of
the Lord
Jefus
Chrifti left
they
muft be
as in
the day
that
God
firft
looked
on them
poore,
naked, in
their
blood,
unpittied, formed neither into Church
State,
nor Commonwealth:
fo will
I make them faith
the
Lord; And this
di-
fpenfation
of
God the Prophet
expreffeth with
great dread, and terrour,
to
the
end
of
the
13.
verfe.
2.
The
fecond
part
of
the Chapter
is
taken
up and fpent, from
the
14. 4.23..
verfe
to
the end,
in
heavenly and gracious
Promifes
,of
the
converfion
of
the
Ifr
true
aelites,
the
feed
according
to the Promife
of God,
of
the
Renovation
of
the Covenant with
them,
and
blefling
them with
all
fpirituall blefiìngsin
Jefus
Chrift,
unto the
end. And hereof, there are thefe foure parts.
1.
An
heavenly
Promife
oftheir
Converfaon,
by
the
Gofpell
,
which
fie
de-
monftrateth and fetteth
out
by comparing
the
Spirituali deliverance
therein,
to
the deliverance
which
they had by an high hand from /Egypt:
v.
14.
and
15.
2.
The
delivery
of
them
fo
converted, from
Idolatry,
Falfe-worfhip,
and
all
thofe
waies
whereby God
was
provoked
to
caft
offtheir Fore
- fathers;
at-
tended
by
their
obedience,
in
dole
walking with God for ever.
3.
The
quietneffe
and
peace,
which
they
(hall
enjoy being called,
and pur-
ged from
their
finnes
before mentioned;
which
the Lord
expreffeth
by his
making
a
Covenant,with the whole Creation,in their
behalfe. v.
18.
4. A
difcovery
of
the fountaine
of
the
mercies
before mentioned
,
with
thofe alto,
which
afterwards are
infifted
on,(to
wit)
the Everlafting
Covenant
ofGrace,through which,God
will
with
all
Faithfulneffe,and Mercy
take
them
to
himfelfe:
v.19,20. to the
end.
Before we
farther
open thefe
particulars,
foure
Obje
&ions muff
be remo-
4:
24.
ved,
that
are laid
to
prevent the
inference
intended
from thefe
words.Ch:
I
1.
selì8.pag.
229.
It
is firft
obje&ed.
s.
The
Promife
of
the Betrothing
here
fpecified, is made unto the entire
body
and
Nation
of
the
Jewes, as well
unbelievers,
as
Believers, as appeareth
by
the
car
-
riage
o
f
the Chapter throughout.
Ant.
The
carriage
of
the Chapter throughout,
is
a
weake proofe
of
this Aflèr-
tion;
&
(no doubt)
fixed
on,
for want
of
particular
inftances,
to
give
any
light
unto
it:
neither
Both
the
carriage
of
the Chapter throughout
,intimate
any
fuch
thing
in
the
leafy,
but
expreffely manifefteth
the
contrary.
It
is
univer-
fall
defolation
and
utter
Reje
&ion,
that
is
affigned
as
the
portion
of
untie.
lievers
as
fuch, all along
this
Chapter. This Promife
is
made
to
them , whom
God
allureth into the
Wilderneffe,
and
there
fpeaketh
comfortably
to
them:
which
what
it doth
import,
(hall
beafterwards confidered.
Yea
and which
is
mores
the
words
ofv.
23.
which
runne on
in
the
fame
tenor
with
the
Promifes
par-
ticularly
infifted
on, and beyond
all exception
are
fpoken to,
and
of
the fame
perlons, are
applied
by
the
Apoflle
Pail, not to the
whole
Nation
of
the Jews,
Idolaters and Unbelievers,
but to
them
that
were
brought
in
unto
the
Lord
Chrift, and
obtained the
Righteoufneffe
ofFaith,
when
the re/f
were
hardened.
Rám.9.26.
From v.24.
to
the
3o.
the
Apoftle
by fitndry
inftances from
the
Scripture
of
the Old Teftament,
manifefteth,
that it
was a Remnant
of
Ifrael
according to
the eleilion
ofGrace,
to
whom
the
Promife was
made;
To
us
whom
God
bath called, not to the Jewes
only,
but allo to the Gentiles. For
fo
(faith
he)
it
is
in
Hofea;
(inftancing
in
the
pafhage
we
infft
on) I
willcall
them
my
people,
which
were
not my people,
and
her beloved which
was
not
beloved, and
it
fball
come to paffe,
that in
the
place where
it
was
laid
unto them,
You
are not
my
people,
there
(ball
they
be
called the
Children
of
the
Living
God.
Which he
farther
con
-
U
2
firmeth