(26o) and thofe which are weak , let us walk by the faine Rule. Wherefore although I cannot difcern how any thing in this Difcourfe hath the leafs influence into the Cafe in hand, yet to give a little more Light unto the Context, and to evidence its unferviceablenefs unto the Doctors Intention, I (hall give a brief account of the Judaical Teachers ofthofe days. 3 The Jews were by this time dif}ributed into three forts (1.) Such as being obdurate in their Unbelief and 'Rejection of the Perfòn of Chrift, oppofed, perfecuted and blafphemed the Gofpel in all places. Thus was it with the Generality of the Nation. And the Teachers of this fort advanced the Excellency,. Neceflity, and Ufefulnefs ofthe Law, in contradiction unto Chrift and the Gofpel. Thefe the Apoftle defcribes, z Thef. 2. 13, 14, 15. The Jews ;. Who bothkilled the Lord l efus, and !their own Prophets, and have perfecutedus, and-they pleafê not God, and are contrary unto all Men, forbidding zia to ipeakunto the Gentiles that they might be Paved, to ,fill up their fins alway, for thewrath is come upon them unto the ut- termofl. (2.) Such as profiting Faith in Chrift Jefus and Obe- dience unto theGofpel, yet were of the Mind that the wholeLawofMofees, was not only to be continued and obferved among the Jews, but alto that it was to be im- pofed on theGentiles whowere converted unto theFaith. They thought the Gofpel did not erect a new Church Rate with a newkind of Worfhip, but only was a pe- culiar way ofprofeelyting.risen into Judaifine.5 agatn1 which,the Apoftle difputes in his Epiftle unto the He- brews,,
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