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A04195	A treatise of the holy catholike faith and Church Diuided into three bookes. By Thomas Iackson Dr. in Diuinitie, chaplaine to his Maiestie in ordinarie, and vicar of Saint Nicolas Church in the towne of Newcastle vpon Tyne. The first booke.; Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed. Book 12	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1627 (1627)	STC 14319; ESTC S107497	117,903	222

parallel betwixt the Apostle and the Prophet is this After the Evangelical Prophet had written the historie of Christs passion in the 53. chapter he presently sets down that invitation of the new Ierusalem pre-figured by Sarah and her barrennesse to take vp old Hannahs Song Reioyce ô barren thou that didst not beare breake forth into singing and cry aloud thou that didst not trauell with child for more are the children of the desolate then the childrē of the maried wife saith the Lord. Enlarge the place of thy tent let thē stretch forth the curtains of thine habitatiōs spare not lengthē thy coards strengthen thy stakes For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left thy seed shal inherit the Gentiles make the desolate cities to be inhabited Isa 54. v. 1 2 3. The Apostle immediately after his explication of the former Allegory Gal. 4.27 takes vp the first part of the Prophets song by way of testimony or confirmation of his doctrine But Ierusalem which is aboue is free which is the mother of vs all For it is written Reioyce thou Barren that bearest not c. CHAP. XI Of the consonancie betweene the promulgation of the old Testament and the New Of the opposition between the Law and the Gospell or betweene the old Testament and the new The explication of the Apostles argument Heb. 9. ver 13 14. 1 BVt when did the Church or spouse of Christ or children of the new Testament first take vp this ioyfull song whereunto the Prophet did invite her Immediately vpon our Sauiours death and resurrection No these were the dayes of the Churches widowhood wherein she sate for a while destitute and comfortlesse and wherein her womb was shut vp from bearing children The Apostles themselues had as little strength as Abraham had to beget or Sarah had to bring forth children vnto God vntill they were indued with power from aboue The new Ierusalem did not descend like a glorious bride from Heaven vntill the bridegroome her Lord had ascended from earth to heauen in glory But within ten daies after the Holy Ghost came down vpon the Apostles and disciples in visible shape in token that Christs Church was now betrothed vnto him this was as the solemnization of the Mariage And whereas for fifty daies after our Sauiours resurrection wee doe not read of one soule more then their owne begotten to God by the Apostles and Disciples there were added vpon the fiftieth day three thousand soules vnto the new Ierusalem or visible Church and euery day after such as should bee saued And these being dispersed throughout euery Nation vnder heaven did propagate the seed increasing and multiplying much faster then the Israelites did in Egypt The songs of ioy foretold by Esaias the Prophet were taken vp by these sonnes of the new Ierusalem whilest they were filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speake with other tongues as the spirit gaue them vtterance Acts 2. ver 4. God gaue his Law vpon Mount Agar or Sinai fiftie dayes after the Israelites were deliuered out of Aegypt and fiftie dayes after the deliuerance of his people from the bondage of sin and Sathan the same Lord proclaimes his Gospel or new Couenant vpon Mount Sion in Ierusalem the Metropolis or royall seat of Abraham or Dauids seed The visible Ierusalem from Davids time till Christs is as the middle terme of proportion betweene the Law and the Gospell that is the same proportion which the Law as opposed vnto the Gospell or which Agar with her children had vnto Abrahams of-spring by Sarah in respect of ciuill freedome or of emblematicall or typicall preheminences the like proportion had Abrahams of-spring by Sarah or the visible Ierusalem in her greatest glory vnto the new Ierusalem after the Holy Ghost had descended vpon the Apostles and such as were in their times conuerted vnto Christ And as the Law being giuen vpon Mount Agar did emblematically import a kind of ciuill seruitude vnto such as did adhere vnto it whilest it stood in opposition to the Gospell so the Gospell being promulged in the visible Ierusalem did betoken the spiritual freedome of all such as abandoning the Law did embrace it 2 Of the difference or agreements betwixt the Law and the Gospell or which is all one betwixt the old Testament and the new I shall haue occasion to treat elsewhere For this time it shall suffice in a word to aduertise that the old Testament and the new are sometimes compared and considered by sacred Writers tanquam includens inclusum as the Huske and the Graine The Gospell before Christs time was in the Law as the corne new set in the eare And the Law and the Gospell or the two Testaments thus considered are rather one thē two at least there is an vnity of subordination betwixt them Vnto such as vsed the old Testament as they ought onely as an Introduction to the new there was indeed but one Testament For as the Schooles speake vbi vnum propter aliud ibi vnum tantùm The same Testaments may be sometimes considered as abstracted or seuered each from other Thus the Gospell or new Testament since our Sauiours death and resurrection is become as pure corne threshed and winnowed The old Testament or the Law thus seuered from it remaines onely as the chaffe or huske If we thus consider the Law or old Testament as the Iewes imbrace it that is altogether seuered from the new to which alone wee Christians adhere by faith they are not onely two but two opposites or contraries The Iewes appetitus caninus or womanish longing after the Law and our constant adherence to the Gospell thus opposed vnto the Law as pure corne vnto the putrified chaffe or huske breeds a kinde of Antipathie betweene vs. For such as is our seuerall food and nourishment such our seuerall dispositions are Wee feed vpon the pure corne or rather vpon the bread of life it selfe cleansed from all branne the Iew onely vpon the chaffe or huske and his religion is as loathsome to vs as swines flesh is to him See Philip. 3. vers 7 8 9. 3 This opposition or subordination betweene the legall or Euangelicall Testament will further appeare from our second instance which was in the same Apostle Heb. 9. ver 13 14. If the blood of Bulls and of goats and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the vncleane sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternall Spirit offered himselfe without spot to God purge your conscience from dead workes to serue the liuing God The termes of proportion likewise in this inference are foure The first not fully expressed but implyed and it is a sin or trespasse meerly committed against the Law of ceremonies The second which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to this is a legall or proper sacrifice for such a sinne to wit the blood of Bulls and of goats and the