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A09031	A plaine exposition vpon the whole 8. 9. 10. 11. chapters of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans Wherein the text is diligently and methodically resolued, the sence giuen: and many doctrines thence gathered, are by liuely vses applyed, for the benefit of Gods children performed with much variety, and conuenient breuitie: being the substance of neere foure yeeres weekedayes sermons.: By Elnathan Parr, Bachelor in Diuinity, and preacher of Gods Word.	Parr, Elnathan, d. 1622.	1618 (1618)	STC 19319; ESTC S114074	348,782	462

doubt not of his mercie who will graciously receiue a Iew. Vse 2. Redemption is a taking away of sinne by iustification and sanctification Such as are in their sinnes are vnredeemed and remaine vnder the power of the diuell who holds thē though not by a visible possession which is fearfull yet by an inuisible operation which is worse Many say they defie the diuell who by consenting to his suggestions worship him in their liues for as true obedience is a worshipping of God so sinne and disobedience is the worship of the diuell as Paul sheweth saying Rom. 6.16 His seruants ye are to whom ye obey God saith sweare not the diuell saith sweare and ease thy stomack God saith be sober the diuell saith be drunken To whom doest thou yeeld If thou refusest to doe Gods will and obeyest the fiend thou art Gods enemie and the diuels slaue VERSE 28. As concerning the Gospell they are enemies for your sake but as touching the election they are beloued for the fathers sakes HEre Paul proues by reason that the Iewes shall be pardoned and so called The reason is taken from the loue of God and followes thus Those whom Gods loues he will pardon and call But God loues the Iewes Ergo. The argument is brought in by a prolepsis What the Iewes might some say pardoned and called Gods enemie whom God hates Yes saith Paul euen the Iewes for though in some respect they are hated yet in other they are beloued of God Here are two things auouched of the Iewes first that they are enemies secondly that they are beloued They are enemies whose Pauls but not so here but Gods enemies hated of God This is amplified two wayes first from the meritorious cause for the Gospel namely because they refuse and persecute it secondly from the end for your sake for your benefite that is the Gentiles The hatred of the Iewes to the Gospell is deadly as appeared in the crucifying of Christ in their persecuting the Apostles and their extreme malice to Christians of all times being a chiefe cause and principall agents in the tormenting of poore Christians as Tertullian reports of his times and their dealings with Polycarpus doe testifie mentioned by Eusebius Iudaeorum Synagogae sontes perse eutionum Pertul scorp adnersus Gent. Hierome reports that in his time the Iewes vsed to curse Christ and Christians vnder the name of Nazarens In the dayes of Philip the long a King of France they hired certaine leapers to poison all the fountaines in that kingdome In this our land they committed many outrages by crucifying children to death on Good friday for which as they deseruedly many of them suffered so they were at length wholy banished out of this kingdome Robert Gagnanus lib. 7. hist Franco They were also for such like things expelled Spaine circa an 1290. giuing occasion of the beginning of the bloudy Inquisition circa an 1493. which afterwards was turned against the Protestants In two Councels it was prouided that at Easter two dayes before and two after they should not be permitted to come abroad because of their insolencies offered to Christians at that time which is yet obserued in all Christian cities where they are suffered Aurelianeuse 3. et Matisconense 1. circa an 537 et 575. For this hatred of the Gospell they are hated of God and that for our good as ver 11. It is in the power of wicked men to sinne but by their sinne to effect this or that good is not in their power but in his who deuides the darknesse and orders it August lib. 1. de praedest cap. 16. 2. They are beloued loco Aug. modo citat They are hated and yet beloued which may well be because they are not in the same respect time or particular subiect These to be vnderstood of the nation as Austin saith of whom some belong to Iacobs halting some to the blessing he receiued Beloued of God in two respects first of election secondly of the fathers Election signifies the grace whereby they were chosen to be the people of God by which it comes to passe that many of them belong to Gods secret election For where God hath his Church there is the treasury of his Election Fathers sake Abraham Isaac and Iacob not because of their merits but of the couenant made with them doctrine The Iewes are beloued of God Esay 1.1 c. They were beloued and Gods loue is to the end Vse The certaintie of the calling of the Iewes hereby is manifest yet some haue gone about absurdely to take away the subiect of the question denying there are any Iewes in the world because there are none in England or because they liue not in a countrey by themselues which are filly shifts to alledge against so manifest a truth Haue all learned men agreed to befoole the world Doe Christian Magistrates make lawes against shadowes Doe all Trauellers consent together to bely themselues who say they haue seene and talked with Iewes What Country-men are they which in Italy Venice and diuers free Cities are vpon penalties distinguished by their habite from other Christian themselues say they are Iewes Are they not Is the profession of a Iew in such account and esteeme that men should counterfeit themselues Iewes which are not Surely this is not worth the answering There is a place to the Thessalonians 1. Thes 2.14 which these accute disputers haue not obserued which hath more validity against the calling of the Iewes then all which they haue alledged Paul saith That the wrath of God is come on the Iewes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some haue translated for euer but it is better translated to the vttermost noting the extremity of punishmēt not of time or if of time then to be applied to Pauls persecutors and those of that time which wrath they endured at the destruction of Ierusalem Vse 2. Many speake and account loosely of the Gospell but for such doing God hated the Iewes Vse 3. Thou knowest a Papist or prophane person though thou beest an enemie to him for his sinne yet thou must loue him for the Election because for ought thou knowest hee may be the elect childe of God Vse 4. Good fathers are a great blessing to their children Salomon continues Prince all his dayes and one Tribe is reserued for his sonne for Dauids sake let vs feare God euen for our childrens sake that the blessing of God doe not determine in vs. 2. King 11.34.35.36 Vse 5. Thou louest the remembrance of Abraham then loue a Iew as many times we shew fauour to one that is lewd for his good fathers sake nay though wee bee glad for our owne sakes yet wee must loue them for Gods sake wee must loue them whom God loues woe vnto them who haue no other cause of hating their neighbour but because hee is religious and beloued of God such are of the line of

of a Reprobate thou wert in the same condemnation Consider the torments to which the Reprobate and the riches of Glory to which thou art reserued How doth God deale with vs as though we were Princes children who indeed are beggars brats Hee takes a Reprobate and scourgeth him with Scorpions to fray thee from sin and to shew thee his loue When thou feelest thy selfe dull to praise God consider how God hath discerned thee from the Reprobates then whom in thy selfe thou art not better so much as a hayre If God had saued all it had beene an Infinite mercy and an Infinite cause to praise him but Now seeing many are damned to them which are saued it is the more cause of thanksgiuing The Sunne is glorious and beautifull but if the Moone and euery Starre had as much brightnes it would not be so admired So this makes the mercy of GOD to the Elect so much the more admirable by comparison of his wrath on the Reprobate On the contrary it is augmentation of torment to the Reprobate to see how God vseth his Elect to heare how graciously Christ speakes to them Come ye blessed to behold Them goe triumphing to heauen and themselues thrust downe with the Diuell to hell To see what they lose shall more torment them then that which they feele This shall euen cut them to the heart as may by proportion bee gathered out of the Gospell Luke 13.28 There shall bee weeping and gnashing of teeth saith Christ to the Reprobate Iewes when yee shall see the Elect in the Kingdome of heauen and your selues thrust out Apply this to all occasions of mercy to thy selfe which thou obseruest others to want Wouldst thou be stirred vp to praise God for our long peace Compare England with France the Low-Countries this will doe it Wouldst thou for the Gospell be prouoked to thankefulnes Consider their misery that liue in Turky or vnder the darknesse of Popery Thou hast riches vnderstanding health the vse of thy limbs c. When thou seest a man Lunati que or a poore lame cripple begging a penny of thee Remember that God offereth him to thee not onely that thou shouldest be compassionate to relieue him but also to make him thy glasse to behold the mercy of God to thy selfe who could haue put him into thy estate and thee into his Be from hence thankfull lest God cast thee into such an estate for he can do it that so by a hard comparison thou maist learne to be more sensible of his goodnes which thou hast receiued Thus did God declare i●… Ierusalem by his Prophet that they should serue Shishak that they might see the difference of his seruice and of the kingdomes of the earth 2. Chron. 12.8 Consider wisely be thankfull VERSE 24. Euen vs whom he hath called not of the Iewes only but also of the Gentiles HItherto hath beene shewed that the promise was neuer made nor meant to the only carnall seede of Abraham Now followes the other part of Pauls Answere that it is made to the Elect of all Nations And he falls into it from the occasion of that which is vers 23. deliuered of the vessels of mercy and glory For in this verse he shewes who they be and by consequence who are Abrahams seede to whom belong the promises and that by an effect of election which is Calling This calling is enlarged by a distribution of the Subiect viz. Iewes and Gentiles The Argument or summe of the words is That the seede to whom the promises pertaine are the Elect which are not the Iewes only but the Gentiles also nor all the Iewes but only the Elect. The first is approued verse 25 26. The last verse 27 28 29. Then followes a collection from these things verse 30. to the end of the Chapter Euen vs whom he hath called Calling is an action of Gods loue whereby he calleth men to saluation It is two-fold 1. Outward when we heare the Word preached with the eare of the body 2. Inward when God bends the heart to beleeue the promise offered and swayeth the whole man to obedience Pareus This is here meant not of the Iewes only but also of the Gentiles Not all the Iewes nor all the Gentiles but of the Iewes and Gentiles the Proposition being partitiue some singulars of both doctrine They which are effectually called are elect vessels of glory for the execution of the decree of election begins in Calling Rom. 8.30 Tit. 1.1 Ioh. 10.16 Act. 13.48 Vse 1. In time past they sang God is knowne in Iewry his name is great in Israel at Salem is his Tabernacle and his dwelling at Sion Psal 76.1.2 Psal 79.6 Ierem. 10.25 Luke 2.32 Acts 10. Then were the Prophets bold to say Powere out thy wrath vpon the Gentiles Yea wee were as dogges But now he that is the glory of Israel is the light also of the Gentiles Peter could not vnderstand this without a vision The Iew the elder brother could not endure his younger bretheren to be entertained but they had no reason for it for neither did we grutch their glory neither doth our admittance but their owne infidelity exclude them from God Truth it is that in all times of the Iewes excellencie some few of the Gentiles were receiued into the fellowship of the promises as Iob Iethro Ruth c. for the saluation of some and for a witnesse vnto all but now the multitude of the Gentiles receiue the Gospell Vt quibusdam esset in remediū omnibus in testimoniū Amb. de voc Gen. Whether Iew or Gentile such as are called are the elect of God It is not the hauing or wanting of the prerogatiue of Nation Sex Condition c. that makes or marrs In Christ saith Paul Galat. 3.28 not in a Christian Common-wealth is neither Iewe nor Gentile c. But all rich poore masters seruants Iewes Gentiles haue an equall right in Christ vvhich I thinke was shadowed Exod. 30.15 Where the rich shall not passe nor the poore diminish Art thou rich if thou beest not effectually called thou shalt bee damned Art thou poore If thou beest effectually called thou art rich A poore man wanting grace is twise miserable and a rich man belieuing hath a double portion Nemo dicat ideo vocauit me deus quia colui eum Quomodo coles si non voceris Augu. There is nothing in vs which is the cause of effectuall calling He calleth vs. Good desires and thoughts c. follovv calling as calling followes Election and Election the mercy of God Wee are the subiect of Calling but power to obey the Calling of God wee haue not till God hath created it in vs. As water being by nature cold may be made hot and yet it hath no naturall inclination to heat so the Flesh hath no eares to heare nor eyes to see but as GOD createth them Neither doth God giue vs a power and wee educe it into act but