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book_n	gentile_n	law_n	lawless_a	54	3	17.7186	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34956	The iustification of a sinner being the maine argument of the Epistle to the Galatians / by a reverend and learned divine.; Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli Apostoli ad Galatas. English	Crell, Johann, 1590-1633.; Lushington, Thomas, 1590-1661.	1650 (1650)	Wing C6878; ESTC R10082	307,760	323

after the Promise made to Abraham See and compare Gen. 12.2 and Gen. 15.5 6. and Gen. 17.10 and Act. 7.5 6 7 8. and Rom. 4.10 11. and Gal. 3.17 The persons called Jewes who enjoyed these Prerogatives of Rights and Lawes were of two sorts 1. Some were Jewes natively by nature nation or birth who lineally descended from Jacob and of what Tribe soever they were yet from the Tribe of Judah which was the Tribe Royall were called Jewes Thus the Galileans though they were not all of the tribe of Judah but of other tribes were Jewes by nature and Luke 7.3 are called Jewes So Sceva Act. 19.14 who was one of the chiefe Priests and therefore of the tribe of Levi is called a Jew And Paul himselfe Acts 22.3 who was of the tribe of Benjamin and borne at Tarsus in Cilicia calls himselfe a Jew 2. Others were Jewes factively by naturalization denization or ascription who descending from parents that were not Jewes by nature but Gentiles were by favour and grace admitted to bee partakers of the Rights Lawes and Religion of the Jewes as incorporated planted and grafted into the Jewish Nation whereto they were initiated by Circumcision Hence the Jewes by nature are called The naturall branches of the good olive tree whereinto the cions of the wild olive tree i. e. of the Gentiles are grafted contrary to nature Rom. 11.21 24. And these factive or endenized Jewes are commonly called Proselites as Mat. 23.15 Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for yee compasse sea and land to make one proselite i. e. a factive or endenized Jew And Acts 2.10 Strangers of Rome Jewes and proselites i. e. Iewes native and Iewes factive And Acts 13.43 Now when the Congregation was broken up many of the Jewes and religious proselites followed Paul and Barnabas i. e. Iewes native and factive Yet in one place they are called Those under the Law 1. Cor. 9.20 Vnto the Jewes I became as a Jew that I might gaine the Jewes to them that are under the Law as under the Law that I might gaine them that are under the Law i. e. the proselites or Iews factive For the Proselite being initiated by Circumcision became thereby a pertaker of all the Iewish Rights and also a subject to be under all their Lawes Hence sayth the Apostle Gal. 5.3 I testifie againe to every man that is circumcised that he is a debter to doe the whole Law Such a Proselite or Iew factive was Uriah the Hittite and Araunah the Iebusite and Nicholas the Deacon Acts 6.5 who was a Proselite of Antioch for these three and divers others were by Nation and nature Gentiles but by favour and Circumcision Iewes Now Paul in this verse useth the phrase Jewes by nature partly to distinguish them from Proselites who were Iewes by favour and partly to oppose them unto Idolaters who as it followes in the next words were Sinners of the Gentiles And not sinners of the Gentiles The Gentiles in opposition to the Jewes were in like manner of two sorts 1. Some were Worshippers who forsaking the way of Idolatry did worship the God of Israel and thereupon were admitted to sacrifice at the Temple and to assemble at the Synagogues where they heard the Lectures of the Law and the Prophets These were commonly called Strangers within the gates upright in heart fearers of God and devout men Yet because they were not and would not be Circumcised they retained the name of Gentiles and by the Law were accounted uncleane Persons and therefore no Jew would eat or converse with them neither might they come into the inner Court of the Temple but must worship in the outward Court which was therefore called the Court of the Gentiles Such a Worshipper was Naaman the Syrian 2 Kings 5.17 who professed that henceforth hee would offer neither burnt-offerings nor Sacrifice unto other gods but onely unto the Lord. Such the Centurion of Capernaum of whom the Jewes there gave this Testimony Luke 7.5 Hee loveth our Nation and he hath built us a Synagogue Such the Eunuch of Ethiopia Acts 8.27 Who came to Jerusalem for to worship Such Cornelius the Captaine at Cesarea Acts 10.2 Who was a devout man and one that feared God with all his house which gave much alms to the people and prayed to God alway Such a Gentile was the father of Timothy though his Mother were a Jewesse Acts 16.1 And such was Lydia the Purple-seller who heard Paul Preach in the Oratory of Philippi and Acts 16.14 is called a Worshipper of God Such were those devout men out of every Nation under Heaven Acts 2.5 who during the feast of Pentecost were dwelling or abiding for the present at Jerusalem And those of Antioch in Pisidia who hearing Paul preach in the Synagogue there Acts 13.42 besought that those words might be Preached to them the next Sabboth day And that great multitude of Thessalonica who belonged unto the Synagogue of the Jewes there and Acts 17.4 are called devout Greekes 2. Others of the Gentiles were Idolaters who worshipped Images and served the false Gods of the Nation where they lived and casting off all feare of the true God followed the sway of their fleshly lusts These to distinguish them from the former Gentiles who were Worshippers are here called Sinners of the Gentiles and in some places by way of eminency simply Sinners for so our Saviour calleth them Mat. 26.45 The Sonne of man is betrayed into the hands of Sinners i. e. into the hands of the Idolatrous Gentiles True it is that all the Gentiles of what sort soever are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. the Lawlesse or those without the Law as 1 Cor. 9.21 To them that are without the Law as without the Law that I might gaine them that are without the Law i. e. the Gentiles who both transgressed opposed the Law Yet the Gentiles were not equally lawlesse or without the Law for the Idolaters who transgressed and opposed the whole Law both the Commandements in the two tables of the Law and the Ceremonies in the Book of the Law were more lawlesse more without the Law then the Worshippers who transgressed opposed only one part of the Law namely the Ceremonies but observed the ten Cōmandements in the two tables of the Law And all the Gentiles are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Sinners as in severall passages of the Evangelists where they are joyned with Publicans See one for all Luke 15.1 Then drew neare unto him all the Publicans and Sinners for to heare him i. e. Publicans and Gentiles Yet all the Gentiles were not equally Sinners for the Idolaters who crucified Christ and transgressed the Commandements and opposed the Ceremonies were more Sinners then the Worshippers who heard Christ and observed the Commandements and opposed only the Ceremonies whereto they would never submit neyther before nor after Christ Such Idolatrous Gentiles were generally all other Nations farre and neer living round about