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a39328	The great mystery of godlinesse opened being an exposition upon the whole ninth chapter of the epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans / by the late pious faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Edward Elton.	Elton, Edward, d. 1624.	1653 (1653)	Wing E651; ESTC R40205	342,638	246

under a despised and afflicted estate and therefore they esteem basely of them but they lift up their conceit in regard of men that are great and mightie in the world they have cappe and knee and all outward pomp given unto them Alas they are blinde and cannot see and discern their miserable estate for all the honour that great and mightie men have it is nothing in comparison of a Childe of God No though their excellencie did mount up to Heaven and touch the skie with their heads and make their nests among the Stars yet being not in the estate of grace they are in a base condition and shall be tumbled down and trodden down as the dung under their feet therefore they are deceived that magnifie them and honour them so much Haste thou then good evidence that thou art a Childe of God and in Vse 2 the estate of grace surely then know this to thy comfort thou art in a most excellent and honourable estate though thou be in a mean estate far better then those that lift up themselves and cheer up thy self thou art precious in the sight of God Esay 43.4 Because thou art precious and honourable in my sight yea thou art honourable in the sight of all the holy Angels of God yea of the Saints of God And howsoever the world doe seek to blemish thee and to cast dirt in thy face and say thou art a Schismaticke a Puritan an Hypocrite yet they cannot possibly disgrace thee for the honour that is put upon thy head is put by the hand of God and it will make thee honourable and glorious in the sight of men and Angels Alas the honour of the world conferred upon men it hath many interruptions and breakings off and if it continue as long as they live yet then it leaveth them and they leave a rotten and stinking name behind them but the honour conferred upon thee is holy and heavenly Honour and continueth after death Yea consider that thou being a Childe of God thou art the Childe of him that liveth for ever thy Father never dies and assuredly thy Father never dying there is no end of his dayes and glory so he will make thee glorious also and crown thee with Eternal happinesse and therefore thou art an honourable person VERSE 27 28 29. Esaias also crieth concerning Israel Though the number of the Children of Israel be as the sand of the sea a remnant shal be saved For he will finish the worke and cut it short in righteousnesse because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth And as Esaias said before Except the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed we had been as Sodoma and been made like unto Gomorrah IN these three verses our Apostle affirmeth and further amplifieth the vocation and calling of the Gentiles by an Antithesis namely by the rejection and casting off of the Jewes for the body of them and the greatest part and number of them the Lord only calling a few and a remnant and a seed of them And this our Apostle confirmeth by two Testimonies from the Prophet Esay The first as you may reade in Esay 10.21 22. verse which is here laid down in the 27. and 28. verses The second Testimonie is in Esay 1.8 and here put down in the 29. verse Now in these two Testimonies tending both to one and the same purpose there are in general two things considerable First of all the thing witnessed and secondly the amplification of the thing witnessed The thing witnessed is that a very smal number of the people of the Jewes in comparison of the multitude shal be saved expressed under the term remnant in the 27. verse and seed in the 29. verse and the amplification of the thing witessed is in 5 particulars First of all the person witnessing the Prophet Esay Secondly the manner of his giving Testimonie that is with crying Thirdly the confession of a grant made by the Prophet and here cited by the Apostle That though the number of the Children of Israel were exceeding great set out by a comparison of the sand of the Sea yet but a remnant shall be saved Fourthly the Reason and ground of this why but a remnant shal be saved and that is Gods purpose and Gods will which is amplyfied by the execution of it in righteousness in the 28. verse Fifthly a magnifying of Gods mercy in saving a few and a small number of the people of the Iewes which is set out by a comparison taken from Sodom and Gomorrah and also by a Title given unto God who is called the Lord of Hosts Thus we see the general matter of the Holy Ghost in these three verses Now come we to handle them particularly and first of the 27. and 28. verses for these verses are very difficult and hard to be understood As Esaias also crieth Crying doth import a loud a plain a bold and an earnest speaking not an ordinarie speech but a speaking with an extension and lifting up of the voyce and he crieth concerning the people of Israel what doth he crie That though the people of Israel were as the sand on the sea That is though they were a numberlesse multitude even as sands upon the Sea shore Yet but a remnant shal be saved The word remnant is taken from tradesmen Metaphorically who use to cut out a whole piece of cloth into parcels until a little be left and that they call a remnant or remainder so a remnant a very smal number of the Jewes shall be saved Shalbe saved Now the Prophet he saith not a remnant shal be saved but shall return in Esay 10.22 meaning historically they shal return from the Captivitie of Babylon yet we must know that the Prophet under the title of return doth intend a further matter namely a spiritual returning a returning to God as he saith in the 21. vers of that Chapter The remnant of Iacob to the mightie God shal return that is they shal repent of their sinnes and be saved so the Apostle and the Prophet do wel agree For he will make his account draw near and bring it to a short summe in righteousness Not to trouble you with varietie of Expositions with which this verse is exceedingly vexed and doth much pusle Interpreters but the words of the Prophet Esayias are these The consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness and here the Apostle saith for he will make his account and draw it to a short summe in righteousnesse And for the understanding of this we must know that the thing intended and signified both by the Prophet and Apostle is this as we may easily gather from the context That God hath purposed and ordained to bring the sinneful and unthankful people of the Jewes to a small number and a short summe and that justly for their unthankfulnesse and sinnes which the Prophet expresseth in these termes The consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousnesse because the Prophet knowing that

be plain and bold in preaching the Word for Application How far short then are those Ministers and Preachers of the Word Vse 1 that do flatter and sooth up men in their sinnes and lull them asleep in their carnal security and will never come near them to tell them of their sinnes unlesse it be in a general manner all along and never come to instance in particular sinnes No they are afraid of offending and of angering their hearers Yea there are many who are justly to be taxed that doe not onely Lull men in their sinnes but doe encourage men in a course of evil and strengthen the hands of the wicked Jer. 23.19 so as that they cannot return As for example Doe not not some Ministers and Preachers of the Word tell men they need not be so strict in observing and keeping the Sabbath as from Morning to Evening and after that repetition what need all this adoe to be so strict and so nice in their ordinary Communication as not to swear by faith and troth what these are nice things they themselves will doe this and say they there is no such danger as these foolish fantastical and puritanical Preachers will make you believe they will tell you you are in danger of hell fire for breaking the Sabbath and swearing by Faith and Troth but there is no such matter These are they whom the Lord complaineth of in Jer. 6.15 They lead the daughters of my people with sweet words and say peace peace all is well when there is no such matter when they are ready to be swallowed up of the devil And as the same Prophet saith in Jer. 14.13 When the true Prophets did come and threaten sword and famine upon the people the false Prophets come and tell them they shall have no such thing such Ministers and Preachers are odious and hatefull in the sight of God Jer. 23.14 These daubing and soothing Preachers the Lord saith he will feed them with Wormwood and they shall drink of the water of gall yea if the Lord doe not give them repentance they shall one day drink of the deep Cup of his vengeance in the pit of Destruction in hell But to passe by that if we that are Ministers of the Word must thus tell our people of their sinnes Then our Hearers must be content to bee plainly dealt withal and to be told of their danger they must have their lives ript up and their sinnes displayed and their Consciences ransacked and rifled and their danger laid open and men must not rage nor flye in the faces of their Minister Drunkards Whoremongers uncivil shag-hair'd and Civil honest persons they must be told of their estate and that so long as they remain therein they are in danger of hell and destruction and unlesse they repent the Lord will one day come against them in vengeance and they shall be as thornes bound up in a bundle and as Drunkards in their drunkennesse and as stubble ready dryed for the fire Nahum 1.10 For while they be folden together as thornes and while they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry And thou must not be offended if a man should come and tell thee that fire hath took hold of thy house and unlesse thou make speed to quench it it will burn thy house to the ground wilt thou be angry with him And shall the Ministers and Preachers of Gods Word stand and cry Fire fire fire yea the fire of Gods wrath and vengeance which is kindled with the breath of the Lord as a river of brimstone shall he I say thus cry out The fire of hell is ready to burn thy soul and body and wilt thou be angry with him Oh consider with whom art thou offended surely with God for God speaketh it and art thou offended and angry with God whence cometh it it cometh from thy own vile Corruptions helped forward by the Devil Oh then to conclude learn then whatsoever thou art with patience to hear the Word of just reproof and to hear thy faults reprehended for it is the best good that a Preacher can do to thy soul to bring thee out of the snare of the devil unto amendment of life that thy soul may be saved eternally in the day of the Lord Jesus Esayas also cryeth concerning Israel Though the number of the Children of Israel be as the sand on the Sea a remnant shall be saved For he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousnesse because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth c. THe next thing here to be considered is the persons against whom the Prophet cryeth and the thing he cryeth The persons are the Children of Israel and the thing that though their Number were as great as the sand on the Sea yet but a remnant shall be saved Now what were the Children of Israel they were the seed of Abraham descended of the holy Patriarks a very honourable people yea they were Gods people his peculiar people they had the Law the Temple the Sacrifices the service of God amongst them yet the Prophet telleth these people that though their Number were as the sand on the Sea-shore yet a Remnant shall be saved and this the Prophet doth to shake the hypocrites amongst them who going on in exceeding great impenitency boasted themselves that they were of the seed of Abraham and that God had fulfilled his promise in them in making them a great multitude and therefore the Lord loved them Now the Prophet he sheweth that this was a vain brag and notwithstanding their great number this will not help them nor avail them in the case of salvation this was the general thing intended by the Apostle Now from hence ariseth two Propositions to be observed the first is this That a great Number of people may bear the name of Gods people Doctrine and yet but a few of them have true repentance or put it down positively that Multitudes of people may bear the name of Gods people and have the true Worship of God amongst them ordinarily and commonly and yet but a few of those be true repentant sinners and in the estate of grace and of salvation this Proposition hath ground and footing in other places of Scripture Gen. 6.1 2. When men began to multiply upon the face of the earth then the Text saith they ran on in sinne together with the multiplication of men and women upon the earth there was a multiplication of evil and sinne a great number of sinnes yea the Sonnes of God the godly and righteous seed such as were the Worshippers of the true God they began to degenerate and to run on in sinne And the Apostle Peter saith in his first Epistle second Chapter and fifth verse that there was onely Noah and seven other with him who was the Preacher of righteousnesse were saved and the world of ungodly had the deluge brought upon them and in the first verse of