'Vert. 26,27. the Epifile to the Romans. 487. Explanati- on of the doarise. the chief part of the people, are but in (mall number, yet called to the king - dome of Chriti, T t What is now the gewerall dollrine of thefe 'frier Verfesl What is taught out of them ? S t L. That there (hall be a ge- neraIl calling of the Jews tothe faith of the Gofpell, before the fecond com- ing of Chrift , as the Prophets have foretold it. It is not meant that every one (hall be faved, fo as there ¡hall not be any one beleever in the whole nati on, but as the fulne(fe of the Gentiles are Paid to come into the Church be- caufe the moll and greateff number (hall imbrace Chriff; fo all Ifrael muff be faved, and whole Jacob (hall have finne forgiven them,becaufe this (hall be done to the chiefeft part, whereof the whole ufeth to take denomination. For further proof hereof, fee the 2 t chap. of the Revelations, which is a prophefie of this laft and great vocati- on of the jewes, as bath been proved before. Unto which we may joyne Ezekieis vifion, touching the reftoring (by certain degrees) unto life, flrength, beauty,and proportion, the dry bones which he faw fcattered in the field; Eze(Z 37. I,2,3, 4, &c. which howfoe- ver Tome by allufion do apply to the re- furre &ion of the dead at the generali judgement, yet it is plain by the text to be meant of Ifraelite, being (in refpe& of fpirituall life and grace, like dry bones and dead bodies,)unable through unbeleefe to flirre toward God , but through the great and rich goodnelle of God to be railed again by the Gof- pell, and made alive to God through Chrift; not all at once, but by fame de- grees, whereof their coming out of their defparte captivity of Babylon might be a type and figure. For it is Gods manner in types of temporall de. liverances, to teach fpirituall and hea- venly things concerning eternal! re- demption by Chrift.Befides theft things the counfell of the molt wife and Al- mighty God in the wonderful! prefer- vation of the Jcwes, ought diligently to be confidered and weighed of the god- Ily; whereas fundry very ancient peo- pie and famous, as Perfraus, Chaldean, Arrians, Trojans, Vandales, Lombardi, Corbel, Saxons, Pills, Biomes, &c. are either quite extinEt and deftroyed, or elfe being fevered and fcattered, have not fo held their'ówne, as to keep fill their own ordinances,and to be able to thew their originall and hiflory in lure record, and preferve them felves, for their civil! life and religion, unmixed with other people whither they came t (yet behold a ftrange thing and remark- able) the Jewes only, notwithftanding their great and long difperfions, and manifold calamities, defolations, and death in fimdry countries, where they have been butchered like (beep, as in England here at London, and lork (by hundreds and thoufands, and elfewhere is* other Countries, knocked down by . heapes, and others cruelly fpoilcd, ) do for all this not onely remain in very innumerous multitudes, chiefly in A- fra and Af ri ca, (as M. Beza, and M. Gri- neas upon certaine knowledge do re- port ) but do keepe their Tribes di- (tin&and unconfounded, and their re- ligion,all without commixtion as much as they may, reading and fèarching the Scriptures, but with very corrupt con - ftru&ion ; yet with this fruit and com- modity, that both their pedegree and defcent from Abra. am and the Patri- archs may appear, and. eke by their witnetfe of our bookes, (out of which we derive our holy Chriflian faith,!) may be juftified and cleared from fufpi- cion of impofture and fraud, which the heathenifh Philofophers and other pro- fane Atheift-like pathos cannot: now Charge us with, feting that people Rill remain as prefervers of thofe Oracle of God, which be the founders of our religion. Of all which what other thing are we to deem and judge, but that they are referved thus miraculòufly o God againff the time of their converfi- ón and falvation to cofne hereafter, in Gods determinate feafon. Of chi judgement and opinion finally are ma- ny both moderne writers, M. Galvin, Beza, Petçr Martyr, Juniru, Pifeator, T 3 Pareul
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