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A42584	Gell's remaines, or, Several select scriptures of the New Testament opened and explained wherein Jesus Christ, as yesterday, to day, and the same for ever, is illustrated, in sundry pious and learned notes and observations thereupon, in two volumes / by the learned and judicious Dr. Robert Gell ; collected and set in order by R. Bacon.	Gell, Robert, 1595-1665.; Bacon, Robert, b. 1611 or 12.	1676 (1676)	Wing G472; ESTC R17300	2,657,678	1,606

it and will glorifie it again Such a voice was heard at Rome admonishing them that the Gauls were coming and that they should provide lest the City were taken The third sort is here understood and that divers ways 1. By Angels so the Law was given Act. 7.38 Gal. 3.19 So was Daniel instructed Dan. 8.16 17. and 9.21 2. Sometime by vision Esay 6.1 2 3. 3. Sometime by dreams Numb 12.6 4. Sometimes by Revelation Esay 22.14 Dan. 2.19 5. Sometimes by Oracles Exod. 25.22 6. Sometimes the Lord spake face to face Numb 12.7.8 Macrobius speaks of five ways whereby men were instructed in their sleep 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Three of which the Prophets nay the Heathen used to interpret but all these were full of errours and uncertainty Thus God reveiled himself in and to the Prophets 2. The word in the second notion God reveiled himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Prophets 1. Sometime the Lord made the Prophet a sign unto the people Esay 20.2 3 4. 2. By way of parables as Nathan to David 2 Sam. 12. and the Prophet to Ahab 2 King 13.4 5. Thus Moses taught by the Levitical Types 3. Sometimes by miraculous signs from heaven for conviction of the people 1 Sam. 12.16 17. 1 King 18.21 39. 4. Sometime by comfortable messages when Israel was in distress Exod. 4.29 30. and sought the Lord 2 Chron. 20.5 14 15. 5. Sometime by information 2 Sam. 24.18 6. Sometime and that usually by reproof 2 Sam. 12.7 and commination 2 Sam. 9.10 1 King 19.20 21. 7. Sometime by prevention as 2 Sam. 7.7 And sometime by warning 2 King 6.8 9. 8. Sometimes by prediction and foretelling the coming and kingdom of Christ Eay 2.1 2 3. and 7.14 and 9.4 and 11.1 2. and 12.12 Luk. 1.70 Act. 10.43 The Reason of this is the great Love and Goodness of God unto men as it were turning himself into manifold forms fashions and similitudes Thus the Poet calls the Wise Vlysses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who knew how to demean himself according to time places and persons Thus our God turned himself into all forms fashions and shapes as it were that he might instruct mollifie and win unto himself that stiff-necked and hardned people the Jews Thus he appeared to Ezechiel in a chariot of cherubims to Jeremy in virga virgulta and a boiling pot To Esay in his high throne to Daniel in the shape of the ancient of days To Hosea Joel Zachary and others in other forms and shapes as he speaks generally in Hosea 12.10 Visionem multiplicavi in manu prophetarum assimilatus sum Thus as the Poets feign that Jupiter informed man So God to win the love of his people his Spouse his Church And what could he have done more than he hath done Esay 5. God appears in such forms as the matter requires To Moses in a bush Observe the duty of the Prophets to become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to become all things to all men 1 Cor. 9.19 Iis qui sub lege i. e. Judeis cum Timotheum circumcidit purificatus est in templo Act. 21. Non mentientis actu sed compatientis affectu ut omnium moribus me contemperans omnium morbis mederi possem non mentiendo sed compatiendo non simulantis actu sed commiserantis affectu omnibus omnio factus est Paulus August Epist 9. and 19. Exhort To search the Prophets Writings it is our Saviours exhortation if an Exhortation search the Scriptures when there were no Scriptures but the Law and Prophets And good Reason for the Christian Church is built upon the foundation as of the Apostles so also of the Prophets Eph. 2.20 will we build without foundation Herein we see the manifold Wisdom of God how by manifest types and figures he applyed himself to men Prolepsis True it is they are obscure and difficult But so they were to the Eunuch Act. 8. and he knew it yet when he exercised himself in them God guided a guide unto him and so he will one or other unto us These Prophets are the Messengers sent before Christ Matth. 22. These are they who give testimony of Christ St. Paul preached no other thing Act. 26. Repreh Those who neglect Moses and the Prophets who will come to Christ ex tempore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The third Collation in respect of time the word signifieth either 1. A long time since and so is used but once in the Old Testament Esay 37. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or else 2. A long time continued Mark 15.44 and it is here both ways 1. That God long since spake to the Fathers by the Prophets 2. That he so spake for a long time together c. 1. That long since even as long since almost as there have been men to be spoken to even before the Flood Enoch the seventh from Adam Jude Verse 14. after the Flood Reason In respect of God the Ancient of days who abideth for ever he of old spake unto our Fathers out of his tender mercies and loving kindnesses which have been ever of old Psalm 25.6 These he expressed to our Fathers of old by the Prophets for as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But more especially to prevent the suggestions of the old Serpent he reveiled his truth betimes The good man sowed good Seed in his Field but while men slept the enemy sowed Tares And when his people were infected by the Serpents Seed it hath been his custom to rise early to warn them of their destruction Jer. 25.4 The Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the Prophets rising up early and sending them Turn ye again every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings c. Chapter 29.19 But if God have long since spoken by the Prophets to the Fathers it seems they have done their errand and they no way concern us But surely howsoever God spake of old by the Prophets to the Fathers their errand concerned us also even now as will appear if we consider the office of the Law and Prophets and our own condition in respect of both The Office of the Law whether inwardly written in the heart or outwardly in Tables of Stone it is to give testimony unto God righteousness and to require the fulfilling of the same of the Sons of men which because it is a dead and silent Letter the Prophets in all ages have been added thereunto to quicken it and give it life and voice to interpret it and testifie it unto men Rom. 3.20 Now because by the works of the law no man can be justified both law and prophets point us unto faith in Jesus Christ who is stronger than both and can subdue our iniquities and conquer the strong man Rom. 3.21 22. The righteousness of God without the law is manifested being witnessed by the law and the

Jerem. 10. He hath made the earth by his power and 29.5 I have made the earth by my power and outstretched arm i. e. by Christ the Arm of the Lord Esay 53. The Reason why God made the worlds by his Son may appear from the consideration of that eternal Idea and principle in himself sufficient for the production of many worlds for as the Idea or pattern of an house in the Builder as also his skill and power is sufficient for the building of many houses And the reason is the same of all Artisans and handicrafts men who all work from an inward form and principle of operation Even so the Idea of the world and the principle of wisdom and power in God the great Architect and Builder of the worlds is sufficient without diminution for the Creation of many yea infinite worlds This work the Lord produceth not out of any indigency or want but for the manifestation and communication of his goodness without any diminution of goodness in himself As there are more worlds so are there also more Creators of these worlds for howsoever it be true That to us there is but one God as St. Paul speaks and that one God hath made all Malac. 2.10 Yet because in that one God there are many persons to every one of them the work of creation is ascribed 1. To the Father Ephes 3.9 He created all things 2. To the Son Col. 1.16 All things are created by him and for him And Heb. 1.8 The Lord in the beginning hath laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thine hands 3. To the holy Spirit Gen. 1.2 Which moved upon the waters Psal 33.6 All the host of them by the breath of his mouth Psal 104 30. Thou sendest forth thy Spirit and they are created Job 26.13 By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens And 33.4 The Spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life This is an Article of the Christian Faith Heb. 11.3 So that it 's no opinion taken up by men no private tenent viz. The eternity of the Son of God as he is confessed to be before all worlds Prov. 8.26 Before the mountains were settled was I brought forth If God have made the worlds by his Son then his work is perfect and good An Artisau though never so perfect and cunning in his profession yet he may bungle and not make a perfect work The best Musician may flur a Note and sing out of Tune The best Physician may delay his cure or kill his patient instead of healing him Why because they act not according to the principles of their Arts. But the great Artichitect made the worlds by his Son i. e. by his Wisdom And therefore his work may be passing good So Moses speaks of it Deut. 32.4 He is a rock his work is perfect It was his sentence upon his review of the whole work of Creation that it was all very good He made the world very good how comes it to pass that now it is very ill It is disputed by Divines whether the outward and greater worlds be impaired any whit yea or no. But all men agree that the inward and little worlds are degenerate from what they were even the Philosopher himself in his Ethicks gathers very probably from the perversness that he observed in the manners of men that mans nature was sometime otherwise than he then found it to be But the Scripture and our own experience evidently proves it that Gods and Christs worlds are extremly ruined in us And that the foundations of the earth are out of course The world hath entertained a new Prince Joh. 12.31 And he hath a people too a world that hates Gods world of new Creatures Joh. 15.19 A world which the Creator of it reproves and convinceth of sin And because Righteousness and judgement have good names in the world The prince of the world who can turn himself into an Angel of light He hath erected a righteousness and a judgement to oppose God the Creators Righteousness and Judgement which the Spirit of God reproves Joh. 16.8 A great deal of false wisdom came into the world A wisdom so foolish that the world by that wisdom knows not God 1 Cor. 1.21 And the Creators wisdom is accounted folly and his strength weakness and the honour of his new creatures baseness vers 27.28 Yea his principal New Creatures are become the off-scouring of all things 1 Cor. 4.13 Insomuch as he who will become wise in this world must become a fool that he may be wise In a word Gods World wherein Righteousness at first dwelt is now become a world of iniquity Thou madest all O Lord very good thou sowedst good seeds in thy field whence then hath it tares Thou didst create good seeds of righteousness and holiness in the field of mans heart The field is the world Matth. 13. the world which God set in mans heart Eccles 3.11 And whence then hath it the tares the seeds of errour Whence the Lord answers The enemy hath done this for God made man to be immortal but death came in through the envy of the Devil Wisdom 2.24 O that 's well then we are not in fault No Though the enemy hath done this yet he hath done this by man By one man sin entred into the world Rom. 5.12 Insomuch that the pollutions of the world as the Apostle calls them are rather our calamities than our sins Such as we can rather bewail than help This defilement of the world it 's the corruption of nature c. O Beloved let us not I beseech you so foully deceive our selves in a matter of the greatest moment let us not lay the blame upon Satan and upon Adam or any other but our selves that the world is polluted and Gods workmanship depraved and we made unworthy to obtain Gods world That which seems to be imputed to one only The Wise man attributes to all Eccles 7. ult God made man upright but they have found out many inventions So that though the Devil hath done this yet ungodly men by their works and words call destruction unto them Though the enemy hath sown his seed yet ungodly men are his seeds men yea all of us have sown our seeds of sin The young man sows his wild oats in excess and riot The old worldlings set their thorny cares of covetousness and so of the rest So that though the enemy hath done this yet we our selves are enemies also in our minds by wicked works Col. 1.21 Besides though it be very true that by one man sin entred into the world yet as true it is that if through the offence of one many be dead much more the Grace of God and the gift of Grace by one man Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many and not as it was by one that sinned so is the gift for the judgement was by one to condemnation but the free

enemy is in sowing his Tares in stealing the good Seed out of mens hearts He knows how ill grounded men come to hear the word and receive the Seed what a forward harvest there was in Herod Mark 6.20 What a hopeful growth of Grace there was in Agrippa Act. 26.27 yet in neither of them the Seed thrived Mat. 13.5 cum 20.21 Job 8.17 He knows with what thorny cares of this world the ground of mens hearts is encombred he knows how deceitful riches choak the Seed of the Word so that it becometh unfruitful He well knoweth how luxuriant and excessive some proud earth and ashes is He knoweth how some ground bringeth forth no fruit to perfection Luke 8.14 He knoweth also what good success his labours have in some mens honest and good hearts into what good ground they receive the good Seed of the Word how understandingly they receive it how fruitful the soil is with what patience they bring forth fruit with what increase of God some an hundred fold some sixty some thirty Mat. 13.19 23. Obser 4. The Lord Jesus at his coming finds ripe Corn he finds an harvest he finds such as have been taught of the Father and are docible and teachable of the Son such as are willing and ready to seek God his Righteousness and Kingdom These are the Church in God the Father who of his own will hath begotten them Jam. 1.18 and made them men of good will Luk. 2. such are Sons of Peace such are peaceable ones these are the field which the Lord hath blessed Obser 5. Hence we may take notice of the Fathers dispensation preceding that of the Son whereby he prevents us with his Grace his Correction and Discipline his Fatherly instruction Heb. 12. Psal 94. See Notes on Psal 94.12 Obser 6. Where God's Grace precedes where John i. e. the Grace of the Lord goes before Christ which is his due place there usually followeth a plentiful an ample harvest a large crop of good willing of well affected souls So our Lord tells us Mat. 11.12 From the dayes of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence After the Fathers harvest of good willing ones follows the harvest of the Son When the Evil One sowes also his Tares together with the Wheat Mat. 13.30 Whence we may take notice of the Fathers and Sons dispensations See Notes on Act. 11.26 As the dispensation of the Father leads unto the Son and where-ever that precedes the Son finds a plenteous harvest so where-ever the dispensation of the Son precedes there followeth the dispensation of the Spirit Joh. 14. v. 15 16 17 25 26. and 15.26 27. and 16.7 24. Under this dispensation men serve not God in the oldness of the Letter but in the newness of the Spirit Rom. 7.6 When the Spirit of God shall be poured upon all flesh Joel 2. which was not fully accomplished Act. 2. as appears Act. 1. when the number of them who were gathered together to receive the Spirit was only one hundred and twenty But that Promise shall be fulfilled when the Spirit shall be poured upon all flesh And that 's the harvest of the Spirit a plenteous harvest These three harvests have their proportionable joyful feasts Exod. 23.14 15 16. Abib Spica an ear of Corn which hath the name from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proper to the Father when we go out of Aegypt and forsake our sinful life which must be done in sincerity and therefore it 's called the feast of unleavened bread as St. Paul interprets Sincerity 1 Cor. 5. 2. The second the feast of harvest that 's the Sons feast who cuts down the iniquity that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth the harvest Therefore where they are dead to their sin the harvest followeth as Rev. 14.13 14 15 16. Esay 9.3 in the Margin 3. The third the feast of in-gathering the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the feast of perfection even the fulness of the Spirit in the end of the year even the acceptable year of the Lord 2 Cor. 6.1 Repreh The Tares which hinder the growth of God's harvest the Tares are the Children of the wicked one Mat. 13.38 When the blade of the good Seed springs up then appear the Tares to hinder their growth When their iniquity is full these have their harvest Joel 3.13 Put in the sickle for the harvest is ripe Rev. 14. Exhort Grow we up in Grace and let us become an acceptable and plenteous harvest unto our God in Jesus Christ continue we in the good will and sincerity let us offer our first fruits unto God Alas we have no helpers the labourers are few when we are ripe the Lord will send one labourer or other to be helpfull to us Philip was sent to the Eunuch Acts 8. Ananias was sent to Saul Acts 9. Peter was sent to Cornelius Acts 10. Paul was sent to Macedonia Acts 16. Nor let us not doubt but if we continue in good will and sincerity the Lord of the harvest will send some labourers or other to us to cut us off our earthly root to bind us together in love and carry us into our Masters Barn 2. The Labourers are few Labourers in Scripture are either such as are afflicted with their sins as Mat. 11. they are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 labourers or else such as take pains with and about others as an harvester about the corn so St. Paul of himself and fellow Apostles 1 Cor. 3.9 We are labourers together with God about what or whom It presently follows Ye are God's husbandry The labourers imployed in God's husbandry are either under the Law or under the Gospel under the Law the Levites Priests and Prophets they in outward Ceremonial Services these in express terms foreshewed the coming of the Messiah and conversion of the people unto him and prepared the way unto the Kingdom of God of whom saith St. Peter They ministred not unto themselves but to us 1 Pet. 1.12 The Levites Priests and Prophets under the Law laboured until John Mat. 11.13 administring the Ceremonial Services and the Letter of the Law All in their several ranks and degrees were labourers The Prophets made known the Will of God sowing the Word in the hearts of the people John the Baptist he prepares the soil wherein the Seed shall be sown and warns men to bring forth fruit worthy amendment of life Luk. 1.17 All these 1 Pet. 1.12 ministred the things that are now reported unto us 2. Other Labourers there are who enter into the field when these have done their work and reap that which the former have laboured in of both our Lord speaks John 4.37 38. Such labourers were the Apostles and all true Ministers of the Gospel They ripen them Eph. 4.11 12. These when it is ripe put in the sickle of mortification whereby they cut men off their earthly root These bind men in the perfect bond of love they bear them with patience as