when God threatens the confiscation of their consciences their banishment from heaven and hanging in hell Like those Esay 28. 15. which have made a covenant with death and are at an agreement with hell when the overflowing scourge shall passe through it shall not come nigh us when as heaven and earth shall passe and be melted like waxe at the presence of God in the day of conflagration before one title either of the threatnings or promises of God in the Word shall be dissolved but fulfilled Hee sees no comfort in the Sacrament which is offered the true and living bread which came downe from heaven Ioh 6. 32. the bread of life verse 48. My flesh is meate indeed and my bloud is drinke indeed and so of the rest of Gods holy ordinances in which the sonnes of the earth find no favour no sweetnesse or comfort but like the Cocke on the dunghill esteeme a barley corne above a pearle Whereas the man whose eyes are opened makes them his comfort in the house of his pilgrimage he sees nothing in those mundane and sublunary vanities but griefe and vexation of spirit onely in Religion and the wayes of godlinesse is his repose and rest he saith with Paul Without controversie great is the gaine of godlinesse his soule is filled with marrow and fatnesse be esteemes it as Balaam prophecied of the glory of the Church Numb 24. 5. How goodly are thy tents O Iacob and thy tabernacles O Israel O let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his Num. 23. 10. To teach us to acknowledge the wonderfull power of God in the salvation of man when our estates in Gentilisme were most desperate and miserable 1 Iohn 5. 9. The whole world lying in wickednesse Or as Esay Chap. 35. 1. cals the Gentiles a wildernesse a desert unfruitfull barren rough and good for nought but to be dennes for wilde Beasts Dragons and Serpents Even so we were a habitation not for the mighty God of Iacob but for the infernall Dragon the Devill yet by Gods powerfull grace this wildernesse exceeds Lebanon and Carmel for fruitfulnesse he hath made this desert to flourish as a rose he hath made this wilde Olive to be grafted in and be made partaker of the roote and fatnesse of the Olive tree Rom. 11. 17. hath made us unto God the sweet savour of Christ 2 Cor. 2. 15. From rejected refuse and cast-away stones which the builders refused hath powerfully raised us up children to Abraham Mat. 3. 9. hath made us of strangers from the true God sacrificing with the Athenians Act. 17. 23. to the unknowne God Psal 96 5. The gods of the Nations are vanities to be partakers of the divine nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. hath given us the Spirit of wisedome Eph. 1. 17. He hath opened the barren wombe of Sara and made it fruitfull in the Childe of promise hath opened the uncircumcised hearts of the uncircumcision of the Gentiles hath turned the dry rockes into pooles of water so that these things which are impossible with men are possible with God Learne then to acknowledge it the mighty power of God to call a sinner from Iezabels loathed bed into the glorious liberty of the sonnes of God Say then with Dauid The right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe And let us which are abjects of the Gentiles which have no true honour but in Gods covenant draw water with comfort out of these wels of Salvation Esay 12. 3. because God is no accepter of persons The promises of the Gospell are universall he respects not thy outward respects thy learning riches circumcision or uncircumcision but his owne determinate will in electing thee What could he see in us Gentiles but a masse of Idolatries and stained pollutions yet he hath purified us by faith in the bloud of Christ 1 Iohn 1. 7. Polititians and Statists can see no honour but in earthly Kingdomes prophaning their lives in making it their scope and drift to get riches and honours But this is that which makes us truely honourable to be translated out of death into life to be taken as Abraham a brand out of Chaldea from Gentilisme to true religion Let this then be thy comfort that when all the Machiavils Statists and Polititians in the world that have died without CHRIST and never could see any glory but in vaine-glory shall be tumbled headlong into ruine and perdition Esay 30. last verse thou shalt be received into everlasting habitations O taste and see that the Lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him Psal 34. 8. All the Kings of the earth could not have done this Cyrus Alexander and all the rest who in the power of their armies and pride of their hearts have wept because there were no more worlds to conquer with all their authorities commands and threatnings could never heale a dogge of his lamenesse as we see in those two greatest kings of Syria and Israel both which could not cure Naamans leprosie as the King of Israel answered 2 Kings 5. 7. Am I a God to kill and give life that hee doth send to mee to cure a man of his leprosie much lesse can they cure a spirituall leprosie of sinne he can open our lips Psal 51. 17. open our eyes to know the hope of our calling Eph. 1. 18. open our eares Iob 33. 16. by corrections which he had sealed he can raise us from death for he is our resurrection John 11. 25. which all the power of man the poole of Bethesda the water of Siloam cannot doe but onely that Fountaine opened to the house of David and the Inhabitants of Ierusalem for sinne and uncleannesse which is CHRIST Zach. 13. 1. it springs up in thee to eternall life and thou shalt never thirst after Iohn 4. 14. As other waters flow as high as they descend So this having it's Spring and Fountaine from life being the chiefest aqua vitae stayes not till it bring a man to life through the Channels and conduits of the Word and Sacraments so the Word is said to drop and distill Iob 29. 22. This is then the comfort Esay 55. 7. He that thirsteth come then to the waters and drinke yee that have no silver come buy and eate come buy wine and milke without silver and money Draw then with joy thou abject of the Gentiles at this common Fountaine least being unquenched and as yet scorching in thy transgressions thou be forced with the luxurious Apicius and pampered Epulone to thirst without mercy or pitty in the place of torments for euermore Luke 16. 24. To teach us that are Gentiles by nature and yet called by the inmeasurable mercy of God and that freely by the righteousnes of God made manifest without the Law Rom. 3. 21. and made the true Israel of God not outwardly in the flesh but inwardly by faith
dead whilst they live 1. Tim. 5. 6. Was the Word able to raise the Gentiles suffer it then to conquer thy lusts to mollifie thy hard heart to wash thee to supple thee in the fountaine of Israel the Spring of living waters to be a lanthorne unto thy feet and a light unto thy pathes Psal 119. It is worthy the consideration of the most considerate that CHRIST is come unto thee Ioh. 1. 14. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us And if thou continue a wicked Cham a cursed Canaan a prophane Esau a flowting Ismael and comest not unto him by prayer and obedience and he into thee by his Spirit Iohn 14. 17. be sure he will come to thee and against thee in his judgements to thy most fearefull ruine and destruction as he came to Herod Iulian Antiochus like a Lionesse bereft of her whelpes and to the rest of his enemies Luke 19. 27. Those mine enemies That would not that I should reigne over them bring hither and stay them before me Kisse the Sonne least he be angry and yee perish in the way Psal 2. Inflame my heart O Lord with zeale to desire thee desiring thee to seeke thee and give me grace by seeking to finde thee in the word Sacraments c. To teach us that untill a mans eyes be opened his heart touched and his soule enlightned and hee by the Gospell endued with the power of grace from above he seeth no glory nor excellency in religion and Christianity like those Gentiles so long as they wallowed in their sinnes and superstitious vanities the pretious word of reconciliation was to them but as pearles cast before Swine Math. 7. 6. Or the childrens bread unto doggs Math. 15. 26. But when the unsearchable riches of CHRIST was preached unto them a mysterie which from the beginning of the world was hid in God and not opened to the sonnes of men nor to very Angels principalities and powers Eph. 3. 5. 8. 9. the accomplishment of which riches is the glory and joy of heaven 1 Pet. 1. 12. the Angels desire and delight to looke into it we see how inwardly they are affected with it and they see no glory in any thing else as the wife of Phineas 1 Sam 4. 21. calling the arke the glory of Israel As Saul before an Herod a Iulian persecuting CHRIST with as much fury as any tyrant breathing out nothing but fire and faggot yet when he was smitten downe to the ground by the powerfull voyce of CHRIST he became a most zealous Preacher of the trueth in which formerly hee saw no glory and a pillar of that Church which even now he would have pulled downe and desires to know nothing but CHRIST and him crucified Gal. 6. 14. he joyes in nothing else Those also Acts 2. 13. that were mocking the gifts of the Spirit in the Apostles affirming the heate of too much wine to cause that volubility of straÌ„ge languages among them Yet when Peter had taught them that it was the accomplishment of Gods faithfull promise prophecyed by Ioel chap. 2. 28. of the powring out the bottomlesse Ocean of Gods Spirit in the gifts and graces thereof upon all flesh and had applied a corrasive of redargution and reproofe unto them for crucifying CHRIST they are changed and pricked in their hearts longing after the way of salvetion vers 37. Men and brethren what shall we doe The like wee see Acts 16 in the laylor when hee heard Paul and Silas praying and singing Psalmes in the Prison he is presently like King Saul 1 Sam 10. 9. when the Spirit of God came upon him changed into another man So in him was a strange alteration being cast downe by the miraculous earthquake and the cohibition of Paul verse 29. his backwardnesse into forwardnesse he called for a light and sprang in his pride into humility he came trembling and fell downe his cruelty in his former insulting over them into compassionate mercy he brought them forth his desire which was formerly to persecute them to be saved by them What shall I doe to be saved So the sinne-sunke citizen woman that had a long time almost rotted in the Dead Sea and sulphureous Asphaltites of loathsome lust hearing of a IESVS a Saviour though in a proud Pharisies house Luke 7. 37. stickes neither for costly oyntment to annoynt him nor sâ—aâ—e to stand behind him nor plenty of teares to wash his feete who was watering her soule with the dewe of Grace nor her haire which sometime like Nauplius his lights to bring the Grecian fleet to destruction in revenge of his sonne Palamedes was as a baite to ensnare the hurtlesse passenger to wipe his feete which was to wipe her soule with the immaculate sacrifice of his owne bloud Iohn 1. 29. Thus we see Publicans and sinners when once they are touched in remorse for finne how deepely they are affected and inwardly touched Rom. 7. 24. Wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death even with Ezekiah Esay 38. 14. To chatter like a Crane or a swallow and mourne like a dove with David Iob and the children of God with prayers teares watchings mournings to fill heaven and earth for the pardon of theyr sinnes their reconciliation with God the peace of conscience the comfort of the Spirit of comfort and the Salvation of their soules When the civill honest man is scarcely moved with any sence or feeling of the need of his conversion he feeles no sweetnesse in the word which is sweeter than honie or the honie combe Psal 19. 10. He feeles no need of it and yet Iob esteemes it above his ordinary food we have our spirituall life by it 1 Pet. 1. 23. Being borne anew not of mortall but of immortall seede by the word of God which liveth and endureth for ever We have Gods benefits for his words sake 2 Sam. 7. 21. For thy words sake and according to thy promise hast thou done all these great things The preaching there of makes Saâ—an fall downe as lightning Luke 10. 18. Witnesse those new found Indiâ—â— lamaica Iappo Virginia which have formerly had a strange familiar commerce with Satan and have sacrificed unto him though not for love yet for feare of heart as the Pigusians every morning runne with baskets full of rice to pacifiâ— him in the shape of a blacke dogge with many more brutish benevolences to him So soone as Christopher Columbus and others had discovered them and planted the Gospell in some parts of them how deepely have these poore Pagans bin affected the kingdome of Satan demolished that now seldome or never he appeares among them He sees no power in it he accounts of the threatnings denounced out of the Word but as Morbasan the Turke did of the Excommunication of Pius 2. when he sent him word to call in his Epigrams Thus doe wicked men and civil honest men
Countrey they are Christened by a new name called Ignatiani in Spaine Theatin◠in Italy Iesuini Campania Scosiotti in Ferrara Presbyteri in St. Luciae in Bononia reformati Sacerdotis in Mutina with many more And as in their names so in their natures ambiguous for being asked what a Iesuite is they answere Every Man they have two Soules in one body as is confessed in their Catechisme besides all these and their severall projects in themselves and their darke Disciples what tortuous Leviathans are they in their amphibolous amphibious enigmaticall ennuciations and mungerill propositions like so many Colour-changing Camelions as doubtfull as Proteus or Vertumnus Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo In what strong Chaine can any tie this Changelings face to know him by Wee may well say of their Labyrinth-like windings and crooked Heterogenials as Ierome sometime spake of the darke abstruse riddles of Iovinian No man can reade these Letters except the Prophetesse Sybill or as Martiall in the like case None but some learned Apollo can vnfold these Mysteries these Maeanders or as Plautus in the like case Has equidem pol credo nisi Sybilla legerit interpretari alium possi neminem which hollow equivocating hath translated vpon them the ancient infamie of the Spartanes called by Andromache Kings of Lyers and that which Apuleius layes vpon the Scicilians triple-tongued these be the Gibeonites the Iebusites the Iesuites onely in Hypocrisie bearing the name of IESVS though often shadowed under the winges and shrowded as poysonous Vipers in the bosome of Kings have shewed themselves to bee the onely underminers of States and Kingdomes advancing themselves by perverting the Truth against the God of truth who will smite them for whited Walls and painted Sepulchers but leaving them to themselves let us which are the children of Light love the Truth and when all Lyers and dissemblers shall have their portion with the Father of lyes the Truth which maketh not ashamed shall translate us and carry us upon his unconquered wings from these dirty and dusty Cottages of clay into everlasting habitations to the innumerable company of holy Angels and hie Saints for ever Now followes the object of Gods unutterable Mercy and uncontroleable Truth Toward vs which though David seeme to speake in the person of the Iewish Church and Nation the Patriarkes and Fathers of that time who had already and did continually taste of his favours though not so fully as we doe they having in promise wee in full performance that great mystery God manifested in the Flesh the matriculation and incarnation of our blessed Saviour IESVS CHRSIT yet no doubt hee had an eye vnto all succeeding Generations both of Iew and Gentile which were Gods elect and chosen and in time to bee brought into his Chambers Cant. 1. 4. To be made partakers of his Mercy and Truth as when hee stood arraigned hee stood not in his owne place but in ours making his personall appearance on our behalfe so in his resurrection the whole Church arose in him Ephes 2. 6. hee hath raised us up together and made us fit together in the heavenly places in CHRIST IESVS where we plainely see the Mercies and promises of God especially this concerning the promised seede called The truth of the Father were performed to the fathers before and after the flood in the worke of redemption and salvation and now confirmed in the same title unto us who live after the incarnating of that immortall word from which we gather this truth There is but one way of Salvation and Happinesse to the Fathers and also to us and that by the same IESVS CHRIST For confirmation of this we see the unchangeable purpose of almighty God in gathering his Church Hebr. 13. 8. IESVS CHRIST yesterday to day and the same forever Rom. 15. 8. Now I say that IESVS CHRIST was a Minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirme the promises made unto the Fathers c. Rev. 13 8. The Lambe slaine from the beginning of the world which though manifested in the latter times and afternoone of the world like a Roe or young Hart comming skipping over the Mountaines of Bether Cant. 2 vlt. yet all the holy Men and women from Adam inclusively were saved by his blood many of which as Noah Isaac Ioseph c. were tipes and shadowes of him the Ceremonies and Leviticall sacrifices tending to little other purpose but to nourish them in hope of the Messiah the slaughter and death of which beasts was to acquaint them with the mysterie of redemption which stood as under a vaile shadowed in the auncient complement of the Law Iohn 8. 56. Abraham saw my day and rejoyced Luke 1. 47. that hee might shew mercy towards our Fathers Acts 26. 6. the Apostle Pauls religion was concerning the hope of the promise made unto the Fathers Cephas the Pillar of truth Acts 15. 10. joyneth the Fathers faith with ours wee beleeve even as they so to them that lived before his Incarnation hee was crucified in the sacrifices and to us hee was likewise crucified in the word and Sacraments Galath 3. 1. CHRIST IESVS evidently set forth and crucified among you not in Roods Masses and Crucifixes but in his Holy and Sacred Ordinances To confirme and teach us in the first place that no length of time is able to disanull abrogate or make voyde the counsels of the Ancient of dayes or extenuate and make lesse the worth efficiacie and powerfull enargie of CHRISTS sacrifice the same which was Preached to Adam in Paradise Gen. 3. 15. promised to Abraham and David and the Church of the Iewes foretold by all the Prophers concerning CHRIST belōgs to us by faith they looked upon CHRIST as up to the Serpent in the wildernesse Iohn the 3. 14 as he was to bee crucified by faith wee looke upon him as he is crucified like the two Cherubins at the two ends of the Mercie-seate having their faces one toward another and both upon the Arke Exod. 25. 18. So the age primitive which is past and all our after-gatherings of all-measuring Time looke either on either and both upon CHRIST there is no other way nor hath or can be Salvation in any other Acts 4. 12. Secondly it serves to comfort every true beleever though never so base dejected rejected dispised and dispited though he lye among the pots Psal 68. 13. or behind the Ewes with young Psal 78. 72. though hee be Lord and Master of few or none of these outward things as Lazarus Luke 16 yet is he by CHRIST called to the same Salvation admitted into the same fellowship made partaker of the same Heaven with those auncient worthies Mat 8 11. sitting downe with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the Kingdome of happinesse The contrary whereof viz. a deprivation and losse of that Heavenly Vision called by the Schoolemen
Leopards c. swearers lyers drunkards forsaking their wicked loathed slavish drudgery to the world flesh and divell and submit their sinewy neckes uncircumcised hearts and prophane lives in obedience to the scepter of Christ and out of a syncere profession and unfaigned confession cry with the Souldiers under Iovinian We are Christians and will be true to the colours of the Crosse according to our Sacramentall Oath under the banner of our Michaël we will wage warre with the red Dragon and all the spirituall enemies of our salvation God by his Word hath perswaded us called and called us out of our inchanted fooles Paradise wherein we lay in the prison and dungeon of spirituall darkensse into his marvailous light hath opened our eyes freed our feete and as a bird we are escaped out of the cordes and manacles of our hellish sinnes And whereas we lived to our owne corruptions emancipated to our lusts even the devill the Prince of the ayre Eph. 2. 3. tutoring our disobedience now wee live to God the life of God the life of Grace our scorching lusts and rebellious natures which heavenly influence should have wasted the scalding cup of Gods wrath are washed cleansed in the bloud of the immaculate lambe made ours in our justification and sealed to us in the laver of our new baptizing renovation He that is the ministerial instrument of this wondrous work which causeth admiration and ioy in men and Angels Luke 15. 7. Though his tongue were the pen of a ready writer Psal 45. 2. and spake as the Oracle of God had the mouth of golden Chrysostome the gravity of Tertullian the spirit of heavenly Augustine could make Felix tremble with Paul conjure the cursed workes of darkenesse Yet if he sacrificed to his owne nets and yarne he robbes God of his praise and glorie It is not thy word nor thy eloquence or learning but Gods power that brings these mighty things to passe and so all other things If the mercy of God be not in our sustenance we may dye with meate in our mouthes as did the Israelites if his providentiall goodnesse restraine her influence and withold her vertue were our garments as rich as Aarons Ephod there were no heate or benefit in them Nature declines her ordinary working when Gods revocation hath chidden it Though thou labourest and sweatest with diligence till the taper of thy life were burnt out if the Lord prosper not thy handy worke thou makest but roapes of sand to bind Sampson Then sing with the Psalmist Not unto vs O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give the glorie The principall end of Gods actions must be the end of ours and his is his praise Prove 16. 4. The Lord made all things for himselfe viz for his owne praise even the wicked for the day of evill Even out of the unhallowed heape of sinne will he mould the silver trumpet of his owne praise To teach us That God is praised magnified and made great by us when his Image is repaired in us Gen. 1. 26. Let vs make Man after our owne Image Now this image which is his righteousnesse and holinesse the new man Ephes 4. 24. newly comming out of the mint of Regeneration as furnace-smoaked Israel out of Egypt is a glorifying of God and this as a curious worke graces the artificer magnifies the maker Man the little Epitome or Compendium of the world hath bin admired for his wonderfull structure and frame called by that almost miracle of Antiquity a great Miracle Nothing more admirable than Man Man a certaine divine thing Memento quòd homo sit quoddam Omne what shines not in him Our Saviour CHRIST honours him with a large tytle Mark 16. 15. Goe Preach the Gospell to every creature and who but Man must have the benefit of this Gospell But if wee looke upon him as the image of God repaired a new creature nay a new creation 2. Cor. 5. 17 As Ioseph comming from Prison as Mordecai whom the King of honour will honour as Queene Hester perfumed with the aromaticall graces of the Spirit having the royall robe of Christs righteousnesse Cant. 4. 7. Thou art all faire my Love and there is no spot in thee comely as the Curtaines and pompe of Salomon having cast off the blacke scorchings of Kedar Cant. 1. 5. and the Gibeonitish ragges of sinne now remember old things no more Esay 7. he is now a glorious creature and here is God magnified the greater measure of grace affords a greater measure of praise Strive then beloved to have thy unhallowed soule sanctified thy life reformed thy crooked pathes of vanity straighted every thought brought into subiection that God may be made greater in thee and thou the trumpet of his praise And the further to stirre us up to holinesse consider that the magnifying of God is the magnifying of our selves Luke 1. 46. Mary sings My soule doth magnifie the Lord and verse 49. He that is mighty hath magnified me He that blesseth the Lord is encreased he that blaspheameth decreased Our exultation is the first staire of our exaltation Wouldest thou be exalted made great and honoured of God of men and Angels then season thy soule with grace honor God For they that Honour him he will honour and they that despise him shall be dispised 1 Sam 2. 30. He that goes to the Court of Honour must passe by the temple of vertue from the Pallace of Grace to the Place of Glory Learne then to have the praise of God in thy mouth Let Hallelu-jah be the Cadence in all our Musicke and our Musicke in all our actions that being our practice on earth we may one day be Angelicall Choristers in Heaven Praise the Lord O my soule and all that is within me praise his holy name for Omne bonum nostrum velipse vel ab ipso All our good is either God or from God Parties Gentile Iewe enjoyned to this duty 1. The Gentile the stocke of Iapheth one of the sonnes of Noah Gen. 9. 18. the eldest by birth but reckoned by way of Anticipation in the last place And though a long time they stoode as it were excommunicate and cut off from the Covenant of grace yet in Gods appoynted time this rejected seede is perswaded to dwell in the tents of their brother Sem the Iewe as Noah prophecyed And the neuer erring Spirit makes this place a propheticall prediction of Gods never failing purpose of their calling Rom. 15. 11. with many other scriptures pregnant to prove it the word Nations in the old testament in Hebers tongue being rendred by Paul Gentiles a most fit prophecy for this purpose sayth Marlorat and others upon the place Thus though a great while the forlorne Prodigall sate in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death and God vouchsafed his loves and favours to the Iewes
At Salem is his Tabernacle and his dwelling in Sion and gives this land a peculiar appropriation to himselfe Psal 108. 8. Gilead is mine Manasses is mine being as the signet upon his right hand yet the Flouds of his favour is shoured downe at last plentifully upon the heads of his long neglected Nation and now he decks them as Isaac his lovely Rebecca and marryes them to himselfe in righteousnesse judgement mercy compassion and faithfulnesse Hos 2. 19. hence this Doctrine God hath according to his word revealed Christ Iesus to be a Saviour to the Gentiles called them out of the night of their superstitious blindnes into the liberty of the sonnes of light and hath made them Choristers in the quire of his Saints and partakers of his grace unto salvation This was shadowed prophecied and testified long before Shadowed in the calling of Abraham out of his owne country Gen. 12. 1. into Canaan where the Canaanite the worst of the Gentiles dwelt This doth notably prefigure the calling both of Iewe and Gentile because he is called the Father of the Faithfull Also in the Candlesticke Exod. 25. 31 which is commaunded to be made of one entire piece but having sixe branches to signifie the multitude of the Churches of Iewes and Gentiles whose Originall is from the same shanke called a little sister Cant. 8. 8. We have a little sister and she hath no breasts viz. small as yet through the rarenesse of her Converts and destitute of the helpe of any outward Ministery whereby she might either beare or nourish children unto God she hath no paps that is knowledge in the Doctrine of Salvation contained in the dugges of the two Testaments whereby she can as a mother suckle her new-borne babes being but newly come out of the wildernesse of damnable superstition the curiosity of Philosophy as the students in Ephesus Gods two Testaments in which onely is eternall life as testifying of Christ which is the truth the way and the life Ioh. 14. 6. are called the Tower of David built for defence a thousand shields hang therein furnished with rich Armorie which affoords infinite wayes of protection and monuments of victory Cant. 4. 4. and These are twins verse 5. like those of Hippocrates or those Socia's in Plautus one so like the other in resemblances that as our Saviour Christ said of the knowledge of his Father If ye have knowne me ye have knowne my Father And these the Gentiles Church knew not as yet which after was supplyed in the time of Constantine and after by those famous Luminaries of the world Chrysostome Eusebius Augustine c. called therefore the gates of the Church having the keyes of knowledge to let in the Godly Shadowed also Hos 1. 2. Goe take unto thee a wife of fornications Where it is observed that Hoseas signifying a Saviour intimates that Christ tooke unto himselfe for his spouse the polluted Church of the Gentiles a wife of fornications in worshipping Idols and Devils in stead of the living God that He might make it unto himselfe a glorious Church not having spot or wrinckle Eph 5. 27. or any such thing but to make it holy and without blame and so The not beleeving wife is sanctified by the beleeving husband 1 Cor. 7. 14. Shadowed also in Ruth the Moabitesse gleaning in the field of Boaz the Iewe and their providentiall marriâ—ge the poore ruthfull Gentile with the rich Iewe Ruth 2. 3. and 4. 13 And shadowed also in Peterâ—nd â—nd Iohn running to the sepulcher Iohn the Iewes they came first to Christ Peter the Gentiles overtaking them though not the sooner yet the sounder It was also shadowed in Christs buriall in Ierusalem where the dying sacrifices had given warning of his death but it was without the city to answere the type Levit. 16. 25 of the Scape goate sent into the wildernesse and to signifie his sufferings belonged to Gentiles as well as to Iewes In his birth borne in the night to signifie that he should lighten the Gentiles that sate in the darkenesse of superstition and ignorance Acts 10. 23. And thus was it shadowed in Peters vessell Act. 17. 11. descending like a Sheet in which the Doctor of the Iewes is taught to call the long rejected Gentiles called by the free mercy of God cleane Shadowed also in Iacob who served for Rachel and Leah Gen. 30. 31. And in the land of Egypt Gen. 41 And likewise in the marriage of Sampson Moses Gideons fleece and Davids building in Araunahs floore It was also fore-prophecyed Gen. 9. 27. God shall enlarge Iapheth and he shall dwell in the tents of Sem which signifieth not the enlarging onely of his borders and dominions and his surprising enchroaching and being in league with Sem for this was also in cursed Cham the Aegyptian and others of that spewed-out seede were in league with the Iewe and sometime enlarged their boarders upon them but gently to perswade them home to theyr Fathers house Luke 15. to become a chosen people partakers of the meanes of salvation and heyres of life The Greekes and Latines by these two languages did open the tents of Sem that is the Hebrew Scriptures layd up in Hebers sacred tongue and made them knowne to the Gentiles and so they were received into the Covenant The Church a long time stood pailed and imparked as a garden enclosed or a spring shut up Cant. 4. 12. Or as Israel in the land of Goshen within the skirts of honoured Palestina but now Christ hath broken downe the partition wall Eph. 2. 14. and hath made all one there is neither Iewe nor Gentile the two wals of Nations bond nor free the two wals of Conditions male or female the two walls of sexe the great two quicke and dead and the greatest two heaven and earth but all are one in Christ Iesus Gal. 3. 28. all these so many combinations all meete in him as in a Center he in the midst of all drawes all and knitts up all in one faith one blessed hope of his comming he is a Corner-stone or coyne to joyne these two walls together Zac. 10. 4. Out of him came forth the corner Zach. 3. 9. Esay 28. 16. c. and so that great gulfe that made a particion against us the Gentiles is taken away and all made one Esay 52. 10. All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God And againe this Evangelicall Prophet or propheticall Evangelist Cap. 11. 10. In that day there shall be a roote of Iesse which shall stand for an ensigne of the people to it shall the Gentiles seeke and Cap. ult 19. They shall declare my glory among the Gentiles So though theyr eyes were as yet dimme as Elie's 1 Sam. 4. 15. and they could not see the light of saving truth yet there should come out of Iesse a light to