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A02919	The faith of the church militant moste effectualie described in this exposition of the 84. Psalme, by that reuerend pastor, and publike professor of Gods word, in the famous vniuersitie of Hassine in Denmarke, Nicholas Hemmingius. A treatise written as to the instruction of the ignorant in the groundes of religion, so to the confutation of the Iewes, the Turkes, atheists, Papists, heretiks, and al other aduersaries of the trueth whatsoeuer. Translated out of Latine into English, &c. by Thomas Rogers.	Hemmingsen, Niels, 1513-1600.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1581 (1581)	STC 13059; ESTC S118432	286,633	582

written In thie seede shal al the nations of the earth be blessed Of this ground we doe firmelie conclude that whatsoeuer by the holie Prophetes of God is fore-tolde touching the raigne of the Messiah after the similitude of an earthlie kingdome ought to be applied by waie of comparison according to the manner of à spiritual kingdome to signifie that in the kingdome of Christ there should be equalitie concorde and wonderfull peace peace I meane agreeing to the kingdome of Christ namelie à spiritual peace and that in and among such as by true faith receiue Christe into themselues Which spiritual peace is signified by the concorde of the beastes whereof the Prophetes doe speake For it is too too foolishe to thinke y t the office of the Messiah is to change the natures of thinges as to make the Lion laie-awaie his crueltie or the Aspe and Cokatrice their poison So then vnder these figures the Prophets doe signifie howe men that are fierce bolde and cruel as Lions if once theie take vpon their shoulders the easie and light yoke of Christ that is doe imbrace the doctrine of Christ and through faith depende vpon him must needes laie-awaie their lionish nature and conditions and so dwell peaceablie and louinglie with sheepe that is with milde and simple ones hauing on each part through faith of Christ put-on loue and howe the Mountaines namelie the chiefe among the people laying-aside hautinesse of minde must suffer them-selues to be made equal to them of lowest degree And that there should be no such worldlie peace as the Iewes dreame of the 110. Psalme which was written of the Messiah doth testifie where among other things it is said Be thou ruler in the middes of thine enemies which thing we see to haue come to passe in Christ who euen among his most extreme cruel enimies hath à Church the which he protecteth and defendeth against the rage of all tyrants and diuels For this prophecie doth firmelie abide The seede of the serpent shall bruise his heele that is of the Messiah and of the Church The thirde thing which the Iewes obiect is the place of his scepter that is of his kingdome or court of the Messiah The Messiah saie theie shal haue his Palace in mount Zion But that Iesus whome you take to be the Messiah possesseth not one foote of ground there Therefore that Iesus is not the promised Messiah The Maior theie confirme by à saieng in the second Psalme I haue set my King vpon Zion mine holie mountaine And in the 4. of Micah The mount Zion shal be the house of Iehouah the people shal flowe vnto it Here againe the miserable Iewes doe vnderstand that carnalie which the state of the Messiahs kingdome doth proue ought spiritualie to be taken The mount Zion mysticalie doth signifie the Church which is therefore called mount Zion because the kingdome of the Messiah there beginneth according to the wordes of Isaiah in his second chapter For the Lawe shal go forth of Zion and the worde of the Lorde from Ierusalem For it is the phrase of the Scripture to name the whole from the original as the Iewish people is called Israel in respect of their beginning After which manner Zion is saide to be the palace of the Messiah because the Messiah began there his kingdom Againe as Ierusalem maie two waies be vnderstoode spiritualie and earthlie so maie the earthlie Zion wherebie the heauenlie is figured which is the palace of the Messiah our Lord Iesus Christ. And that the prophecie either of Dauid or of Micah concerning the mount Zion and earthlie citie Ierusalem maie not carnalie be vnderstode the Prophecie of Daniel in his 9. Chapter doth plainlie shewe where it is saide And the people of the Prince that shall come that is the hoste of the Emperour Vespasian shal destroie the citie the sanctuarie and the end thereof shalbe with à flood vnto the end of the battel it shalbe destroied by desolations Nowe for so much as the euent doth answere to this prophecie of the vtter destructiō of the citie Ierusalem the vanitie of y e Iewes is manifest enough which place y e palace of the Messiah in the earthlie mount Zion The 4. thing which the brainsicke Iewes do obiect is about the people of the Messiah which theie saie can be none other than carnal Israel That theie thinke to be the proper inheritance of y e Messiah to it onelie theie wil stand in it that the promises were made But miserablie theie both are deceaued and do deceaue I confesse the verie carnal Israelites were chosen before al other nations and was called the peculiar people of God But wherefore I beseech you For their merites and worthinesse Not so But that there might be à people that might kepe the lawe of God in whome and from whom the Messiah might be borne In consideration of which excellencie of God Dauid saith in the 147. Psalme He hath not dealt so with euerie nation neither haue they knowne his iudgements But what Hath God changing his minde taken to him selfe the idolatrous Gentiles and refused the Iewes Surelie the counsaile of God is vnchangeable for he is faithful in his promises but he hath à condition of faith and obedience annexed And therefore because of their incredulitie the Iewes are castawaie For they haue despised the worde of God and rebelliouslie reiected the Messiah sent vnto them for their welfare which thing doubtles the Prophetes concealed not from vs. What is that which the Prophet Isaiah in his tenth chapter doth say Though thy people ô Israel be as the sande of the sea yet shal the remnant of them returne What is more euident than this prophecie Hath not the euent plainlie agreed to these wordes But how commeth it about that they are not conuerted Whose faulte is it The same Prophet sheweth wherein it lieth whose wordes let vs heare I haue spreade out my handes al the daie vnto a rebellious people But whence came that rebellion Surelie from nothing els but euen because they were offended at the basenesse of the person of the Messiah Which thing the same Prophet fore-saw would come to passe For thus he saith Beholde I laie in Zion à stumbling stone and à rocke to make men fal and euerie one that beleeueth on him shal not be ashamed Mine aunswere then vnto the obiection is Israel is the people of the Messiah which is verie true being vnderstod of the true Israel which is not of the flesh but of the promise But Israel of the promise is euerie one which beleeueth which thing in holie scripture is declared by sundrie types and figures Ishmael and Izhak were borne of one father Abraham Esau and Iaakob of the same father Izhak But as Izhak and Iaakob for the promise sake are reputed for the seede without anie respect