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A77348	Brevis demonstratio. The truth and excellency of Christian religion demonstrated against Jews, Mahometans, and heathens Publish'd at the desire of some learned men, and for the satisfaction of all rational persons in England.		1665 (1665)	Wing B4424; ESTC R170793	19,852	40

and others that have written of the American Affairs Certainly all these things are an Argument that God takes care of this Religion and that by his providence it was upheld and propagated VIII These things being considered it is easie to perceive that other Religions are not to be compar'd with this For as to the Jewish Christian Religion indeed gives testimony to it that it also had God for its Authour but 1 its great imperfection shews it was given but for a time onely for whether you consider the promises they according to the letter did contain onely temporal and worldly things in which surely the chiefest Good could not consist and no man can deny but God might give better then they or whether you consider the precepts they for the most part were in prescribing Ceremonies * or whether you consider the latitude and extent it was restrained to one Nation onely neither did God take course that it should be preached to other Nations yea its nature was such that it could not concern other Nations which appears even from the sacrifices which ought not to be offered but in Palestine and by the Tribe of Levi whence it is that even at this day the Jewes being banished from their Native Countrey abstain from sacrificing So neither could the Laws concerning First-fruits Tithes and Festival Assemblies Exod 34.26 Deut. 26.23 also 12.5 6.16.16 be observed by all Nations Either therefore other Nations ought never to worship God and consequently God had in vain given to the greatest part of men the use of reason and will which are the instruments of Religion which to say is absurd as of necessity another Religion was to be delivered by God which should concern all the men in the world For although it was so for a time that the other Nations besides the Jewes were destitute of Divine Revelation and that by the certain counsel of God namely because of the voluntary defection of those Nations from God to idolatry and impiety yet it is absurd to hold that they were so rejected of God for ever 2. That it was to be abrogated the prophesies which are extant in their prophetick Books do shew among which that place in Jeremy 31.31 is eminent where God promises to make a New Covenant with his people different from that of Moses Also Dan. 9.24 where the Coming of the Messiah the desolation of the City Jerusalem the destruction of the Temple and the abolition of Sacrifices is foretold It was granted to Aaron's posterity alone to offer Sacrifice and that in the Countrey of their Fathers but in Psal 110. there is promifed a Priest not according to the order of Aaron but according to the order of Melchisedeck that is such an one as should have neither Predecessour nor Successour in the Priesthood It is foretold in Isaiah 19.19 Chron. 66.18 to the end Mal. 1.11 that the Gentiles also should be worshippers of God and offer Sacrifices to him and be his Priests The Jewes in the Law were commanded to keep Festivals but now Isa 1.11 and so forward God saith That he disdained as their Sacrifices so also their appointed Times and Feast-dayes and that he was weary to bear them and Isa 66.23 it is foretold That if it should come to pass that the Worship of God should be perpetual and not performed on certain dayes onely but every day to wit from Sabbath to Sabbath and from New Moon to New Moon 3. That the Jewish Religion is indeed abrogated and that those prophesies are fulfilled the thing it self shews For that place in which God had fixed the Seat of his publick Worship is taken away and quite overthrown together with the Temple its Ornaments and Sacred Vessels so that the Temple could never be restored although Julian attempted it as Ammianus Marcellinus a Heathen Writer testifieth lib. 23. But he saith that he was hindered by fearfull balls of fire which did spring out of the foundations and consumed men The Priesthoods and Rites of Sacrifices instituted by God belonging to Divine Worship and the distinction of Tribes was taken away so that a great part of the Mosaical Laws lie now neglected by the Jews and can by no means be kept The very people of the Jews so much heretofore beloved of God for their Ancestours now for more then a thousand six hundred years dispersed and banished out of their Countrey are become the laughing-stock the dregs and talk of all other people Nations which is against the promises of the Covenant in which earthly happiness was proposed to the Jews Deut. 28. God indeed threatneth them even with banishment and all kinds of adversity if they should transgress but to them that should from their hearts repent and return to obedience he promiseth that he will shew mercy to them and bring them back from the utmost corners of the world to their Countrey again Deut. 30. Nehem. 1.8 9. But Isa 54.7 c. God saith that he will be angry with his people but a little while but now after so great an interval of time there is as yet no hope of a better condition and return into their Countrey from that time there has not been any Prophet among them there is none sent by God to comfort them which yet was done heretofore in the Babilonish Captivity which though it was most heavy yet it lasted onely seventy years IX Neither ought it to move any one that it was promised that that Old Covenant should be perpetual and everlasting For the word everlasting or perpetual is not alwayes taken for an infinite duration but for a very long time which is usual as well in common speech as in Holy Writ So it is said that the Land of Canaan should be an everlasting possession to the seed of Abraham Gen. 17.8 out of which nevertheless they were ejected in like manner that the sacrifice should be perpetual Lev. 6.20 which notwithstanding is now ceased among the Jews It is said Exod. 21.6 that the Servant should serve his Master for ever The divine Prophet David saith that he would praise God for ever that is all the dayes of his life Psal 52.9 It is said that Samuel should abide in the Temple for ever 1 Sam. 1.22 The hills also are said to be everlasting Gen. 49.26 The earth to abide for ever Eccles 1.4 By that manner of speech therefore are distinguished the Laws that were to endure as long as the Jewish Religion should last from those which were constituted for a certain time such were some of those that were prescribed to the Jews in the Wilderness Exod. 35.26 27. Neither is it to be thought that God did so bind himself by those words that he should not change any thing as to intimate that he would not have any thing changed by men For God made Laws not to himself but to men He has alwayes power of abrogating Laws that have been once made especially those that are not founded in