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A30730	Sabbatikh ʻhmepa ʻhmepa ʻimepa, Septima dies, dies desiderabilis, sabbatum Jehovae the seventh-day-sabbath the desirable day, the closing completing day of that first created week, which was, is, and will be, the just measure of all succeeding weeks in their successive courses, both for working in the six foregoing days, and for rest in the seventh, which is the last day, by an unchangeable law of well-established order, both in the revealed word and in created nature. The second part / by Francis Bampfield.	Bampfield, Francis, 1615 or 16-1683.	1677 (1677)	Wing B628; ESTC R13923	284,270	156

Scriptures which he doth cite where the word Aemesh is used some of the best Lexicographers and Translators do render it past time and the Past night As for the LORDS appearing to Isaac The same night or that self same night there is nothing either expressed or implyed in this that doth say it was the night belonging to the immediate preceding day light neither any such thing in the forementioned Scriptures in the margin but that self same night doth point out that eminent remarRable night of Jehovans appearing to Isaac to encourage him against his fears promising unto him his presence blessing of him and confirming his faith in the multiplication of his seed the place in Numbers has a quite contrary proof to what this Author doth bring it in for For this morrow did make up the self-same-day with the foregoing Night as may be discerned if that Scriptures cited in the Margin be compared with it That self-same-day That same which followed after in time did belong to that Night that very Night that same For otherwise the Israelites did not come out of Aegypt in one day but in part of one day and in part of another day the same Passover day which began at even was the day of their going out and this Author confesseth that the Natural day began at even when the Israelites were come out of Aegypt The night was made the former part of such a day This was prophesied of four hundred years or more before the full accomplishment thereof That place which he doth urge out of Samuel doth shew that Saul had an intention to have David to be slain in the Morning if he did not make an escape in the Night but that it should therefore hold forth the Morning of another natural day to which the foregoing night did not belong is this Authors meer saying without any evidence in this place Those expressions in Matthew and in James To Morrow doth signifie the time coming but how can this convince us that This To Morrow doth demonstrate the Natural day to begin in the Morning for we have the same expression in the significancy of it in Hebrew above threescore times in the Old Testament after the Israelites coming out of Aegypt relating some to Religious others to Civil affairs in which time this Author doth acknowledge that the Night was made the former part of the Natural day amongst which these in the Margin are some so that even Then as to Civil affairs the Israelites did not commonly account the Artificial day of day light to be the former part of the Natural day which though sometimes asserted by this Author is yet elsewhere in the same Treatise contradicted by him when he confesseth the week days had the same measure even then with the seventh day Sabbath which began at even so that how to reconcile such contrary sayings to one matter I discern not much less to reconcile them both to the Scriptures of truth when men do forget in one part of a book what they write in some other part of it inconsistent with a former passage His other Scriptures out of Exodus Leviticus and Numbers do not witness what he doth bring them into the court for seeing although the Day-part be set in order of place in those citations before the night-part yet this doth not there testifie that therefore the Day-part must in order of Nature and of Time be before the Night-part in the Natural-day for divers other Scriptures do place the Night before the Day and that after Israel came out of Aegypt when he himself owneth the Natural-day to begin at even The same we may also find in the New Testament both before and after Christs resurrection after which this Author would have the morning of the Natural-day to be in time before the Evening of it He that would be informed in the true right order must resort to the first established Law in primitive created Nature and in Scripture determinations when this case is professedly treated of and therefore both in the Hebrew and in the Greek when both the parts of a Natural day are joyned together in one Word the Evening and the Night are put before the Morning and the day So that there is no putting back by Moses nor bringing forward by Christ the account of Nights and of Days but they have all along continued as they were at the first made by the unchangeable Laws of the Creation For hereby doth the LORD prove the unchangeableness of his Covenant of Grace The first Creational days and week were the just measure of every after week and of the days thereof in the ordinary course succession and revolution and particularly the fourth fifth sixth and seventh days of that first created week were measured out by the heavenly luminaries and the three foregoing days of that week were of the same nature As to evening darkness and night going before the after morning light and day all and every of the seven days of that week As days were such as the after-days and were the measure of after-days in their stated order it was night and day in the several parts of the earth as it is now the well setled frame of the standing statute of created Nature is not to be inverted Could not did not the creating Aelohim carry the foregoing created evening darkness and night and the following morning light and day in the same moments of time to cause the same beginnings continuings and endings of nights and of days wheresoever and whensoever it is night and day any where in any part of the earth then as it is now Darkness and light were severed then both in nature and in time this Author doth acknowledge a revolution of them on the first created day and that the night was before the day in one Hemisphere From this part of the earth is the Scripture account in the opposite part it is Sea by his own arguing it could not be night every where at the same time for light was in the other Hemisphere and so the first day did not every where begin at the same time for it could not be day where it was evening and dark nor night where it was morning and light thus has he intangled himself in his own net of humane reasoning which he so spread to have catched seventh-day-sabbath observers If when Sun Moon and Stars were created and put into their moving walks on the fourth day they made an universal day that so all seven might in a just proportion of length and number answer to one another as he affirmeth Then at the same time it was night in some parts at full noon when the Sun shone in its strength and the light was clearest and fullest and then also it was day in some parts at the mid of night when it was darkest as the two parts of a natural day are distinguished and yet

Nature the King of Kings and Lord of Lords sitting on the glorious Throne of his exalted Majesty at the right hand of his Father negotiating all the weighty affairs of such more especially whom the Father hath given unto him There he continually presenteth himself and the All-sufficiency and full satisfactoriness of his sacrifice and oblation and the purchases of his passion and the merits of his death There he appears in a Court both of Justice and Mercy as an Advocate before the face of God making intercession for thee that all procured benefits may be made effectual for thee In that highest world there mayst thou see thousand times thousands ministring before the LORD and ten thousand times ten thousands of glorious Angels standing before Him these with the Spirits of just men perfectly sanctified worshipping before the throne of God and of the Lamb where his Servants serve him and see his face O my Soul be thou in the Spirit with those doing their work and enjoying their priviledg by improving a mystical Membership Lo there the new four-squared City Christ's Father's house which he is gone before to prepare that He and His good Disciples may be together there Enter in there and take possession of thy mansion Behold above this lower Firmament are the Treasures of Rain and of Dew of Snow and of Hail of all the upper waters when thou hast been there where thou hopest to be for ever come down a while and let thine Eye glance it self upon the visible objects of this middle world seest thou the yonder azure expanse O what a goodly Canopy hath the LORD spread over thy head observest thou what glittering spangles the starry studs are what shining balls the Sun and Moon are how glorious is their beauty how golden are their beams how operative their influences All that vast space of Heavens which my eye can compass the Sun the Moon and the stars these are thine a Part of thy Portion how useful a Creature is that light by which other visibles are discovered and discerned Here mayst thou see the cloudy bottles and the flying Fowls Here is the Air in which thou dost breath step one stair lower now and walk the earth a while If thou well observest it in its seasons in its springing verdure how lovely doth it appear in it 's garnished ornaments and green attire green a colour both pleasing and strengthening to the Eye whereas if it shewed its beauty only in white it would dazle thy fight into a blindness O what admirable variety is there here The grass I tread on how many are its kinds of how great benefit is this The herbs were made for my use and they have often served at my Table and have been both for food and for medicine how often have the flowers perfumed the Air for me and brought me in their sweetness in their way of natural perception taking some kind of delight that their maker has put any thing into them that might be pleasurable to me How many are the sorts of Fruit-bearing-trees and how often have their fruits dropt themselves to me and yielded themselves to my gathering and several of them have travelled scores hundreds and some of them thousands of miles to visit me and to let me know from Christ that much of the end of their being was to find out my hand and to fill my mouth How many springs have been flowing and Rivers running and wells filling to afford me water How often have I eaten of the kidneys of wheat of the finest of the flower How often have the well-fed both of the flock and of the herd parted with their lives to make meats and feasts for me What shall I say how many thousands of hands have wrought hard for me who never saw my face nor knew my name The Ploughman the sower the reaper the in-gatherer the thresher the winnower the seller the miller the kneader the baker the carder the spinner the weaver the dyer the clothier the taylor with multitudes of more and all these under my LORD Jesus Christ my Servants employed by him for a supplying good to me Shall I now dig deep and get into the bowels of this earth O what a hidden Kingdom of subterraneous minerals is here Here are the roots of those Trees which have afforded their beams of Timber for my habitation Here are the quarries of stone which have yielded materials to raise up walls for me to dwell safely within Here the Colliers dig hard to send in winter fewel to me Here the Searchers after the mines do find out the Tin and the Lead the Iron and the Steel the Brass and the Copper the Silver and the Gold which so often have brought me in some of their necessary Supplies If I go down to the Sea the great and wide Sea in a Ship there I may see the works of Jehovah and his wonders in the Deeps in the great waters which are under the earth How large and how deep a Subject is there here to swim and to fail in There are things creeping innumerable both small and great there the Whales the Sea-dragons do play in the troublesom Deep at the bottom whereof is the mire of Depth where is no standing And now my Soul thy meditations have led thee to the lowest world to Hell beneath a place out of which the Creator will fetch the glory of his Justice a place full of terrible confused darkness a place of torment Here I see the two-leafed-doors unfolding and opening of themselves before my thoughts through which passage when the damned are entred these doors do close themselves over such and they are left to sink and to fall down into the gulphy empty space a dark dreadful deep where are no walls to hang by nor any stay to rest on where the black passengers bound hand and foot are thrown down being amazingly surprized with overwhelming horrour full of fears they sink lower and lower till the bottomless pit of Hell do open its mouth upon them gaping wide to swallow them down into a foul and hideous prison a doleful place where are yelling Complaints and howling noises woful out-cries and frightful shrieks Thus have I taken a short view of the manifold marvellous works of Jehovah Aelohim as made in admirable wisdom How ample and large how clear and splendid how illustrious and magnificent is his name in all the earth who hath given his glorious Majesty above the Heavens who or what am I that he hath given me such an excellent formation as to behold and admire to acknowledg and confess his incomparable perfections in his gracious words and in his glorious works That he made me a tongued Trumpeter to proclaim and to commend his power and skill in so wonderful a Creation and that he has not taken me hence before I left behind me some written printed Testimony of his Royal Excellencies I was now passing into a Sabbath-enjoyment as

carnal compliance either with old Judaizers or with superstitious Pagans who had added divers of their own Ethnick corrupt mixtures of Idolatrous Worship which they gave to Sun Moon and Stars By the course and motion whereof Days Times Moons and Years were measured Gentile Philosophers having parcelled out the power of the only true God into the particular vertues of Elements and Creatures As the Lights in the Heavens Fire Water and Earth ascribing some portion of Deity to every one of these and so assigning a part of the Worship of God unto them too appointing times and seasons for their superstitious service These practices are blame worthy This were to go back either to the Old Testament dispensation or to return to their former Heathenish Rites which is three times rebuked and reproved What Again Again Backward But what is all this to the standing Law of the Seventh day Sabbath kept in an Holy Spiritual manner in obedience to Jehovah's command according to his Word Institution This is a matter of a distinct Nature from the other being a Law of another kind So that to lay aside all instituted natural seasons of Worship such as daily Evening and Morning Worship and weekly Sabbath Worship as some would infer from this place is in the issue to open a back-door for the main of Religion to be turned out at and to enforce it as others do from hence and from one Scripture more which they also wrest to the like wrong ill purpose as if it mattered not what day of the Week were kept or whether any day or no day at all So both were done to the LORD and we were now under no such particular Law This were to open a Gap to all superstition and prophaneness or to urge it as if we were now under no obligation of one special day in a Week but must keep every day of the week as Sabbath as some others Which is quite contrary to the whole Scripture and to the Word and Nature of a Sabbath-day Which is a cessation from the ordinary labour a resting from the common work of our particular Functions which to do on every day of the Week were a sin expresly against the Letter of the Law of the fourth word which doth command us to work six days To spend the day in the Instituted work of Jehovah Aelohim This under a pretence of being always in a Sabbath is to mislead them to be never in a Sabbath Or as other some to plead from hence that they may keep both first day and Seventh-day too as Sabbaths every week this also is directly against the precept For we must work the six foregoing days of the Week and rest on the Seventh We do declare against all and every of these mistakes and miscarriages both in principle and in practice in whomsoever they are found Paul is supposed by these Objectors to speak against the observing of that which comes under the expression of weak and poor Rudiments Elements or first beginnings Whereas the ten Words are not such These are a Kingly Law Obedience to these is the Liberty of Children whereas subjection to the other in comparison of this was sometimes the Bondage of Servants The ten Words are a Kingly Law of Liberty If it be objected that the Typical Figuring shadowy part annexed of old to the Seventh-day Sabbath to be then observed such as the two He-Lambs and such like was a part of these weak and poor Rudiments We acknowledge that these have received their perfection and accomplishment in Christ now come born of a Virgin So that in this part which was Typically superadded we are not now so to observe the weekly Seventh-day Sabbath by such Types and Figures but after that glorious spiritual Heavenly manner as becometh those who are under this New Testament dispensation and thus to keep it is no bondage to a renewed Heart The more excelling in Knowledge in Grace and in Experience that any is the more free will they be to this when once they are led aright into it Let that therefore which Paul saith in the twelfth verse be considered here Be ye as I am for I have been as ye are As if he had said I was once superstitious whilst a Pharisee fond of un-Scriptural Traditionary seasons days and observances or an observer of Scriptural times and institutions in an un-Scriptural un-Spiritual manner as ye but now I bring all to a Word-Rule and so should you If the Reader do diligently observe it in his going over of this Epistle he may find the Law of the ten words established as a rule of Life in the whole of it and by enumeration and induction in several particular commands of it though withal he set out the different manner of dispensing of Grace under the Old and New Testament This improved and applyed might also be an answer to that part of the Objection which is formed from wresting that other place to the Colossians The great drift scope and design of the Apostle in this second Chapter is to set up and establish Jesus Christ as Head LORD Law-giver and the great Exemplar Contrary unto which amongst others were these great opposers the maintainers and defenders of corrupt Philosophy whereby some did endeavour to make a prey of Souls through affectation of humane Wisdom and vain deception according to the Tradition of Men according to the Elements of the World and not according to Christ Another sort of Adversaries were the Advocates for humane Inventions the pleaders for the institutions and impositions of Men besides and against the Scriptures of Truth in the matters of Faith and of manners of Doctrine Worship Discipline Government and Conversation they were Will-worshippers Some others there were who were hot contenders for the keeping up of such Ceremonies as were once Shadows and Types of a Christ who was then to come to be born in the flesh of a Virgin These Typical Institutions were perfected in Christ when he thus came These shadows now passed into the body and substance of them Believers were now complete in their Head Christ in the tenth Verse and had the true grace of what was under Types and Shadows before in the eleventh and twelfth verses That Chirograph by Rites which before they had as it were written exhibited signed sealed and delivered was now blotted out or cancelled Which before was their act and deed in the fourteenth and fifteenth Verses As for what they object that two He-Lambs of the first year perfect were an annexed part of the worship on the Seventh day Sabbath and two tenth parts of fine flower for a Meat-offering mingled with Oyl and the Drink offering thereof the Burnt-offering of the Sabbath in his Sabbath As if therefore the Sabbath too were to be laid aside with these If there were any force in this arguing then we should lay aside all Religion and Worship For what was there under that

old corrupt Principles the old crooked Rules the old selfish ends the old bad Frames the old uutoward Actings the erroneous mistakes the formality in Worship the old unscriptural Traditions the old Sins the old man's Conversion and such like These do pass away and all things contrary to these are become new A whole new man The Apostle speaks of what is peculiar to the New Creature in Christ as such For as for the old ceremonious Rites and their passing away even those that were not new Creatures but were carnal Professors of Christianity yet had these things passing away and they were put under a new Administation the new dispensation of Grace had Ordinances now in a more spiritual heavenly way and manner The passing away of old things here is of old things so far as they stand in opposition to the new Creature and unto that new life in and to Christ which now the converted person should live That as Christ so loved his people as to dye and rise again for them so should those in Christ thus evidence their Love to Christ by living no longer to themselves but unto him crucifying the old man mortifying the sins and lusts of that old man and vivifying or quickning the new man which was true in the Types and Figures before Christ was come born of the Virgin Mary and which is still true now after that Christ is come and ascended up into Glory But all this doth make nothing as to the passing away of the Law of the ten Words in all of them or in any one the least of them This is a distinct fort of Laws from the Typical Figuring Shadowy Institutions The Law of the ten Words as it always has been so is it now and still will be the Rule of the new Creature in Christ Jesus For what in one place is called the new Creatures Rule in another speaking to the same case is the keeping of the Commandments of God In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor Uncircumcision but a new Creature And as many as walk according to this Rule Peace be on them and Mercy and on the Israel of God The Israel of old had no saving benefit barely by the outward sign of Circumcision whereas God's Israel then who had the sign and the thing signified too they had the Mercy and Peace who were new Creatures united to the Messiah by Faith working by Love who had their hearts circumcised to love Jehovah their God who had sin subdued and lust mortified And the uncircumcision under the new Dispensation was not of any good avail without the new Birth without conjunction to and communion with it and if the Regenerate the new Born the new Created would evidence and approve themselves to be such and to be in Christ they must obey him and keep his Commandments But what is all this to any change of the weekly Sabbath from the Seventh to the First Day of the Week To pass from one sort of Laws into another sort of Laws from the Law of figuring Types to the Law of the ten Words and to infer the passing away of any one of the Laws of the ten Words from the passing of Types into the Antitypes and of signifying Figures into their signified things is a transition from one kind to another a way of sophistical arguing of fallacious disputing captiously to over-reach the ignorant too credudulous vulgar and to defraud them of their right to the Truth As for that part of the Objection which doth speak of new Heavens and of new Earth pretended to be completed and finished on the Day of Christ's Resurrection from whence to conclude the passing away of the Seventh-day Sabbath to make room for a First-Day-weekly Sabbath it is so scriptureless so natureless so reasonless an inference that it should have been more preconsidered by this Arguer whether it do conclude and prove any thing but this that the Adversaries would fain have something or other that might carry a little colour and some shew with it if they know what For let it be pondered upon search and examination that all those places of Scripture which do speak of the new Heavens and the new Earth do relate to a further time for their full accomplishment than precisely to the Day of Christ's Resurrection That Prophesie in Isaiah hath an eye to the more large and spreading conversions of the two and ten Tribes in the latter days yet to come How was this then fulfilled on Christ's Resurrection-Day who of them was then converted what eminent new Creatorship was there then brought forth which might put any such signal remark upon the First Day of the Week as from thence to become the new weekly Sabbath When the most of the Disciples themselves did scarce believe him to be raised till after that Day was over And two Disciples with whom he had walked some Miles that Day had little belief of his Resurrection and little knowledge of him till he disappeared from them How few in comparison were brought in unto Christ and made new Creatures in all Christ's life time at his Death and Resurrection and forty Days after that till after his Ascension and after the pourings out of the Holy Spirit That forementioned Prophesie doth foretel that Nations shall be brought under the Jews Dominions when those new Heavens and new Earth shall appear This was not at the time of Christ's Resurrection-day nor ever since and they were then and have been since for sixteen hundred years or more so far Ruling over the Nations that they have been a scattered despised broken people without so much as any Political Kingly Government amongst themselves It foretels that those of Judah and of Israel should be gathered out of all Quarters East West North and South This also is behind yet unfulfilled That Euphrates would be dry Was this on Christ's Resurrection Day Or has it been since Is not this also yet to come upon their return to their own Land in the latter Days Will not their grand Enemy the Turk be then overthrown who has so long wrongfully possessed their Inheritance which when it is will be so great a work for the inhabited Earth to take notice of where the ear-report shall come or the eye-witnessing be that it will obscure the memory of former Acts. Another Prophesie by Isaiah doth fortel that at that time of the new Heavens and the new Earth the ten Tribes of Israel as well as the other two of Judah and of Benjamin shall according as to an express promise return home to their own Country and Land For Sharon was in Gilead which belonged to Manasseh The Valley of Achor was a parcel of the Tract of Jericho in the Tribe of Judah There will then be a new face of things in their glorious and blessed Renovation when there will be divers things accomplished which are not as yet fulfilled As

of this holy Law of the ten Words particularly to be breakers of that Law of the Seventh-day Sabbath so that these Laws were well known to the Church and people of God by a long continued handing of them down by Posterity from Age to Age though practical Anomy or lawlessness had too much crept in and corrupted them of that Generation who neglected and broke them especially whilst bond-slaves in Egypt Afterwards when this Law was proclaimed and commanded at Mount Horeb where was a great mixture a miscellaneous multitude of Israelites and Gentiles who were present at that Mount and the stranger is expresly named in the very Letter of the Fourth Word or Command so that he also was under the obligation to yield obedience unto the Law of the Seventh day Sabbath The mind of man having by sin covered over with thick darkness ignorance errour and long di●use evil inclinations to Vice having much depraved and blinded the Understanding The LORD in words of his own mouth proclaimed this Law that it might be a manifest Testimony to mankind that natural Notions and Novelties of the Law concerning the difference between Good and Evil Duty and Sin were divinely ingrafted into the Nature of Mankind and were consentaneous unto this Eternal Rule of Holiness and of Righteousness which is in Aelohim He instaurs and restores the intire knowledge of his Will in his Law by this solemn promulgation that those old Letters of it which were much worn and defaced in the decayed Monuments of corrupt hearts might be more deeply ingraven and more plainly read again that what men had observed he by his own speaking Voice and writing Finger might rightly explain thus interposing his own Royal Authority to beget an inward testimony in their own consciences for the justness and equity of his holy righteous Law that all Mankind might be convinced of their sin and misery and might thereby be awakened to make out after a remedy otherwise they would be left altogether without excuse Upon the second of the Trumpets at Mount Sinai all Mankind was bound to make diligent inquiry after that which the LORD who is the King of Nations there spake so that they are all under his Law and are all bound thereunto being all concerned to take notice of the promulgation thereof by Royal Proclamation though more especially given forth at that place of Sinai It is not unworthy of serious consideration what a tonourous loud voice that was which not only all the Israelites did hear who yet were about six hundred thousand men a multitude that took up a great space of ground when Aelohim spake all the Words of the Decalogue This voice was also accompanied with a sound of Trumpets so exceeding loud as that the Lord could make all Mankind then alive to hear it such a sound shall go forth in the last day Besides all this what tempests were there at that solemnity what smoke what fire yea what thunderings and what an Earth-quake Such as might shake all the Inhabitants of the Earth at once and make them take notice of it For not only did Mount Sinai or Horeb quake greatly but that expression of Mount Sinai also doth shew that other parts of the Earth were shaken too The Earth was then shaken as the Earth shall be shaken at Christ's coming in the later days when all Nations shall be shaken or moved or made to tremble all and every one of them so shaken as the Heavens then will all of them at once All the Earth is bid to rejoyce at Jehovah's reigning which is described by his solemn giving of the Law which the Church is to rejoyce at and this is applyed unto Christ all the inhabited World was then enlightned all the Earth saw and trembled he then and their declared himself to be LORD of the whole Earth in giving forth this Kingly Law Thus this glorious Law-giver himself descended from Heaven with a shout his Charriot being twice ten thousand thousands of Angels the LORD being with them at Sinai in the Sanctuary and when he ascended to on high he led captive a Captivity he had taken Gifts unto Adam observe so is the Original word or in Adam which Paul doth explain to be men all Adam's posterity particularly from that time and also the rebellious to dwell with that God This Law universally concerneth all for in Christ all are one and whoever they were of the Heathen Nations that came into the Church of God in that day and were obedient unto all the Laws of Jehovah they had a part with Israel in all the holy things of God the Strangers themselves were under a Promise of having an allotted Inheritance in the Holy Land together with the Tribes of Israel There were the same privileges to the Obedient to the Stranger as to the Home-born The same judgments executed upon Transgressors of the Law of the Ten Words were he the one or the other All Nations under Heaven heard report of Israel and of the LORD 's appearing for them and giving them his holy Law Let the Reader further observe how it was afterwards when Solomon built the Temple at his dedicating of it he put the Stranger into his Prayer as well as the Israelite And this wise just Judge especially whilst his heart was right with the LORD judged according to this Law of the ten Words and the judicials annexed thereunto Solomon had his Dominion from Sea to Sea and from the River unto the ends of the Land they that dwelt in dry places kneeled before him and his Enemies licked the dust The Kings of Tharshish and of the Isles rendred an oblation the Kings of Sheba and Seba offered a present and all Kings bowed down to him all Nations served him he reigned over all Kingdoms who were someways under his subjection being herein a Type of Christ so that Solomon was a kind of Universal Monarch upon Earth ruling and governing by Jehovah's Laws Consider what the Office and Work of the Prophets was after Solomon's time even to preach Commentaries and Sermons upon this Law of the ten Words directing transgressors unto the Messiah to procure pardon and reconciliation And these Prophets especially some of them had not only the Israel of God put into their Embasse and Commission but also the Gentile Nations and Kingdoms and People let Jeremiah be one eminent instance of this when the LORD did set over the Nations and other the Kingdom according unto that Word which he brought or sent to them from Jehovah and according as they yielded obedience or not unto this Law of Jehovah so they were either built and planted or plucked up and broken down spoiled and destroyed All those Nations unto whom Jehovah sent Jeremiah with a word of Prophety were many not Jerusalem and Judah the Kings thereof the Princes thereof but also Pharaoh King of Egypt and his Servants and his Princes and