Branch of righteousnesse to grow unto David and he shall execute judgement and righteousnesse in the Land Jer. 33.14 15 16 17. In those daies shall Iudah be saved and Israel dwell safely and this is his name whereby he shall be called the Lord our righteousnesse For thus saith the Lord David shall never want a man to sit upon the Throne of the house of Israel For the Lord shall roar oâ—t of Zion and utter his voice from Ierusalem and the heavens and the earth shall shake but the Lord will be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion my holy moutain then shall Ierusalem be holy Joel 3.16 17 18 19 20 21 and there shall no stranger passe through it any more But Iudah shall dwell forever and Ierusalem from generation to generâ—tion For I will cleanse their bloud which I have not cleansed for the Lord dwelleth in Zion For the Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it I will abundantly blesse her provision I will satisfie her poor with bread I will cloath her Priests with salvation and her Saints shall shout aloud for joy Psal 132.13 14 15 16 17 18. There will I make the horn of David to bud I will ordain a lamb for mine anointed His enemies shall be cloathed with shame but upon himself shall his Crown flourish in that day it shall be said to Ierusalem fear not and unto Zion let not thy hands be slack the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty he will save he will rejoyce over thee with joy Zeph 3.14 15 16 17 18 19. Sing O daughter of Zion shout O Israel be glad and rejoyce with all thy heart O daughter of Ierusalem The Lord hath taken away thy judgements he hath cast out thine enemies the King of Israel even the Lord is in the midst of thee thou shalt not see evill any more But the captives of the host of the children of Israel shall possesse that of the Canaanites even to Zarephath and the captivity of Ierusalem which is in Sepharad shall possesse the Cities of the South And Saviours shall come upon Mount Zion Obed 18.19 20 21 to judge the Mount of Esau and the Kingdomes shall be the Lords Again the word or the Lord of Host came unto me saying Thus saith the Lord of Hosts I am jealous for Zion with a great jealousie and I was jealous for her with great fury Zach. 8.1 2 3 4. thus saith the Lord I am returned unto Zion and will dwell in the midst of Ierusalem and Ierusalem shall be called a City of truth and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts the holy mountain And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives which is bâ—fore Ierusalem and the Lord thy God shall come and all his Saints with him for Enoch also the seventh from Adam Enoch prophecied of Christ kingdom Judg 14 Zach 14.4 5 9. prophecied of these things saying behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints And the Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day shall there be one Lord and his name one Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the TIMES of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord for he will send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the heavens must receive untill the TIMES of restitution of all things which God Acts 3.19 Rom. 2.16 Acts 17.31 2 Tim. 4.1 hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began For he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousnesse by that man Christ Iesus at his appearance and Kingdome Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tydings that publisheth peace O Judah keep thy solemn Feasts perform thy vows Nah. 1.15 for the wicked shall no more passe through thee he is utterly cut off For thus saith the Lord of Hosts yet once is it a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry-land And I will shake all Nations Hag. 2.6 7 8 9. Isa 61.1 2 3 Rev. 15.8.29 to 35. Psal 48.8 9. Psal 68. from Isa 66.6 Ezek. 41.14.15.20 21 23 25. and the desire of all Nations shall come and I will fill this house with glory saith the Lord of Hosts And the glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former saith the Lord of Hosts and in this place will I give peace saith the Lord of Hosts Behold I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before me And the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his Temple even the messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in Behold he shall come saith the Lord of Hosts But who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appears For he is like a refiners fire and like fullers soap And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purge the sons of Levi Mal 3.1 2 3 4. and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousnesâ—e Then shall the offerings of Iudah and Ierusalem be pleasant unto the Lord as in the dayes of old and as in former years and I will be as the dew unto Israel he shall grow as the lilly and cast forth his root as Lebanon his branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the Olive tree and his smell as Lebanon They that dwell under his shadow shall return Hos 14.5 6 7 8. they shall revive as the corn and grow as the vine the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon Ephraim shall say what have I to do any more with Idols Isa 55.11 12. who is wise and he shall understand these things For they shall be led forth with joy and the mountains shall break forth before them into singing And at that day will I raise up the Tabernacle of David Amos 9. from 11. to 16. that is fallen and close up the breaches thereof And I will raise up his ruines and will build it as in the dayes of old Balaams prophecy to Balack as touching the estate of Israel in the latter dayes Numb 24. from 14 to 20. That they may possesse the remnant of Edom. And I will plant them upon their own Land And there shall come a Star out of Jacob and a Srepter shall rise out of Israel and shall smite the corners of Moab and destroy the children of Seth and Edom shall be a possession Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies and Israel shall do valiantly Out of Iacob shall come he that shall have dominion
and I will gather all Nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat and will please there for my people and for my heritage Israel whom they have scattered amongst the Nations behold I will raise them out of the place whether ye have sold them so shall ye know that I am the Lord dwelling in Zion my holy mountain then shall Jerusalem be holy The return of Judah and Israels captivity proved and there shall no stranger passe through her anymore mark that but Judah shall dwell for ever and Jerusalem from generation to generation for I will cleanse their bloud that I have not cleansed for the Lord dwelleth in Zion therefore shall the redeemed of the Lord return and come with singing to Zion and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and mourning shal flee away Thus we may see that Jerusalem is yet to be the praise of the whole earth and that Judah and Israel shall return and be glorious as in former time nay more glorious for the Kingdome shall be restored unto Israel and Christ shall be King over them not allegorically as some ignorantly conceit for there be multitudes of objections as to that opinion that cannot be answered but it shall be fulfilled in the letter of it But because I cannot inlarge my self upon this subject my desire is that the curteous Reader would peruse these ensuing Scriptures and do heartily desire the Lord to apply the right understanding of them to thy soul Read Ezekiel chap 37 38. 39. and Isa 11.12 and 65. and 66. read the 68. Psalm and Psal 102. and 122. read Jer. 30. and 31. read Joel chap. 2. and 3. read Zeph. 3. read Zach. 12. and 14. Mal. 3. these and many more Scriptures doth shew plainly that the people of Israel and Judah shall turn from their captivity into their own Land and also take notice that these Scriptures speak not of Judahs captivity viz. that of the seventy years and the like from which they have returned and yet for their sins are gone to captivity again but this is the return not onely of Judah but also of Israel viz. the ten Tribes the which never more shall go into captivity 2 Sâ—m 7.10 Isa 61. But In their own Land DOVBLE EVERLASTING FOR shall be upon them so shall they dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them as beforetime for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Thus you see that Judah and Israel shall yet return to their own Land But say you It cannot be for Ezekiel plainly saith when I shall bring their captivity the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them when thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate then thou and thy daughters viz Judah shall return to your former estate From which Text you conclude that Sodom and her daughters shall never return and so consequently Judah and her daughters shall never return To which I answer and say that this Text seems to be your strong hold yet you shall see this Text will fight against you and therefore in the first place I shall shew who they are that are called the daughters of Sodom And secondly I shall prove that Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate and if so then you may blush for shame to say that Judah shall never return And so to the first which is to shew what people are called the daughters of Sodom the which we finde to be the Moabites and the Ammonites Gen. 19. for when the Lord overthrew the Cities of the plain there was none did escape save Lot and his wife and two daughters and as for his wife she was turned into a pillar of Salt so that of all the Cities of the plain which is Sodom primely and the adjacent Cities there was none left to bear the name of the daughters of Sodom but Lot and his two daughters And therefore Lots daughters consulted to make their father drunk that they might bear seed by him Gen. 19.31 for say they Our Father is old and there is no man in the earth to come into us after the manner of all the earth implying that the Lord had appointed in order to distinguish the Nations one from another that they should propagate onely with their own Nation therefore saith Lots daughters There is no man in the earth to come into us c. upon which we finde they made their father drunk with wine It is proved that Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate and they lay with him and the first born conceived and brought forth a son and called his name Moab the same is the father of the Moabites to this day and the younger bare a son also and called his name Ben-ammi the same is the father of the children of Amon to this day So that the Moabites and the Ammonites spring from the people of Sodom viz Lot and his daughters and are called the daughters of Sodom now the circumstance of the reasons of their captivity would be too large to discourse of onely we may take notice that the Prophet Amoâ— in short sheweth us the reason for you may mind the Lord did forbid Israel from doing Moab and Ammon any wrong when they passed by to destroy the Nations for as Ezekiel saith Ezek. 16. Deut. 29 19. they were brethren to Israel and therefore the Lord suffered Israel as aforesaid to do them no hurt yet notwithstanding the Lord gave them captive into the hands of their enemies from whence also they shall return Amos 1 13. as I shall shew you and the reason that Amos rendreth why God did give them into the hands of their enemies is because saith he For three transgressions of the children of Ammon Chp. 1.2 and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have ript up the women with child of Gilead that they might enlarge their borders thus saith the Lord 2 King 3.26 27. for three transgressions and for four of Moab I will not turn away the punishment thereof because he burnt the bones of the King of Edom into lime The which cruel act is recorded in the second Book of Kings and also the reason of their captivity the Prophet Ieremiah speaks largely of But I shal come now in the second place to prove that they viz. the daughters of Sodom shall return out of captivity and that also the earth viz. the place of Sodom shall be restored and then I have fully proved the matter and that the place of Sodom shall be restored is clear because the whole Creation that was made subject to
for the Mâ—untains shall depart and the Hâ—llâ— be removed but my kindnesse shall not depart 〈…〉 â—hee neither shall the Covenant 〈◊〉 Jer 〈◊〉 22 23 24 2â— peace be removed saith the Lord that hath me cyon th 〈◊〉 turn again O Virgin Israel turn again 〈…〉 Corts and I will cause the Captivity of 〈…〉 Captivity of Israel to return and I will build them 〈…〉 first Jer◠〈◊〉 For 〈◊〉 set mine eyes upon them for good and will 〈◊〉 theâ— again to this Land and I 〈…〉 do 〈◊〉 and I will plant then 〈…〉 nor throw them doâ—nany 〈…〉 〈…〉 of Israel ye shall shoot 〈…〉 your fruit to say people Israel 〈…〉 For behold I am for 〈…〉 be alled and sown 〈…〉 the jouse of Isreal 〈…〉 be inhibited and the 〈…〉 upon you man 〈…〉 and bring fruit and I will 〈…〉 and I will do better unto you than at your beginning and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Thus faith the Lord of Hosts in those dayes it shall come to passe Zach. 8.22 23 that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the Nations even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying we will go with you for we have heard that God is with you And it shall come to passe in the last daies Isa 2.2 3 4 5 that the Mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the monntains and many people shall go and say come ye and let us go up to the Mountian of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob Mich. 4.1 2 3 4. and he will teach us of his wayes for the Law shall go forth of Zion and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem For Zions sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalems sake will I not rest untill the righteousnesse thereof go forth as brightnesse and the salvation as a lamp that burneth Is 62.1 2 3 4 The Gentiles shall see thy righteousnesse and all Kings thy glory and thou shalt be called a new name which the mouth of the Lord shall name Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord and a royal Diadem in the hand of thy God Thou shalt be no more termed forsaken Isa 51.3 neither shall thy Land be termed desolate any more but thou shalt be called Hephzibah and thy Land Beulah Isa 35.10 Chap. 51.11 for the Lord delighteth in thee For the Lord will comfort Zion and he will comfort all her wast places and he will make her wildernesse like Eden and her desâ—rt like the garden of the Lord joy and gladnesse shall be found therein thanksgiving and the voice of melody For the Ransomed of the Lord shall come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads They shall obtain joy and gladdesse and sighing and sorrow shall flee away Zeph. 3.19 For he will gather them out of all places where they have been driven and get them fame in every place where they have been put to shame and for their shame they shall have double and for their confusion they shall rejoyce in their portion Isa 61.7 For in their Land double everlasting joy shall be upon them and they shall be put into a place of their own and move no more neither shall the wicked afflict them as aforetime But the sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and shall call thee the City of the Lord the Zion of the holy one of Israel Isa 60.14 Ver. 18 21. Violence shall no more be heard in thy Land wasting nor destruction within thy borders but thou shalt call thy walls salvation and thy gates praise thy people also shall be all righteous they shall inherit the Land for ever and thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a peaceable habitation Isa 66.10 11 12 13. rejoyce you with Jerusalem and be glad with her all ye that love her rejoice for joy with her all ye that mourn for her that ye may suck and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation that ye may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory for thus saith the Lord behold I will extend peace to her like a river and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream then shall ye suck ye shall be born upon her sides and dandled upon her knees as one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you Chap. 65.18 Isa 30.19 and you shall be comforted in Ierusalem For behold I create Ierusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy for the people shall dwell in Zion at Ierusalem thou shalt weep no more He will be very gratious to thee at the voice of thy cry when he shall hear it he will answer thee Psal 102.13 14 15 16. For the Lord shall arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come so the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord and all the Kings of the earth thy glory When the Lord shall build up Zion Ver. 21 22. he shall appear in his glory when the people are gathered together and the Kingdomes to serve the Lord to declare the name of the Lord in Zion and his praises in Ierusalem Look upon Zion the City of our solemnity thine eyes shall see Ierusalem a peaceable habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down Isa 33.20 21 22 24. But there the glorious Lord will be to them a place of broad rivers And the inhabitants shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquities the Lord hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies and the sons of strangers shall no more drink thy wine for which thou hast laboured but they that have gathered it shall eat it and praise the Lord and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the Courts of my holinesse Isa 62.8 9 10 11 12. Go through go through the gates prepare ye the way of the Lord cast up cast up the high-way gather out the stones lift up a standard for the people Behold the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world say ye to the daughter of Zion behold thy salvation cometh behold his reward is with him and his work before him And they shall call them the holy people Ezek. 34.12 13 28. the redeemed of the Lord and thou shalt be called sought out a City not forsaken As the Shepheard seeketh out his flock in the day when he is amongst his sheep that are scattered so will I seek out my sheep and deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day and I
neither is there any doubt of their Election and yet you say that the Apostle Peter when he saith he is not willing that any should perish but all to come to Repentance means the Elect the which implyeth a possibility of some of the Elect to perish although he be not willing they should but it is meant that Gods grace is such to the whole lump of Mankind the work-manship of his hands that he is not willing that any of them should perish some of them will perish but God is not willing they should so do for he sweareth by himself that he hath no pleasure in the death of him that dyeth and if he have no pleasure in their death he is not willing they should dye but rather that all might come to Repentance and so I pass from this Text of Scripture And whereas you tell me of Mr. Ruttons ability in the Scripture to expound them beyond thousands of us Answer It is not my business in this place or elsewhere to commend my self or others with me because I know that as of our selves we are not able to speak a good word or think a good thought for all our sufficiencie is of God and therefore having nothing but what we have received I dare not boast but this I say as in respect to Mr. Rutton or your self if your ability be such in the Scripture as you seem to boast of it is hid from me although I have heard you declare your selves in preaching and praying and conference but I pass and examine your answer as touching the potter and the clay Ier. 18. and Rom. 9. Which Texts are not alike for say you that Text of Ieremy either means first that the Potters work was Adam and we in him Secondly Adams marring and we in him or else it means 1. Gods work in making of Israel a people Church or State Secondly they marred by disobedience but coâ—ldought be marred in his hands against his will was it want of power and doth God lack power to save those that are lost could he have done no more to Israel then must he cease to be omnipotent and cease to be God he did enough to Israel to make them inexcusable To which I answer and that in particular and first you say the Text in Ier. 18. and Romans 9. are not alike and yet you confess that the Text in Ieremy may mean that God There is great correspondency between the Text Ieremy 18. and Rom. 9. made Israel a State and Church and they marred themselves in his hand by their disobedience and that it is the same people and cause that Paul speaks to in the 9. of the Romans is very plain to any man that hath not his understanding darkened and that it was the State of Israel that the Apostle speaks to read the fore-going verses and you shall see that Paul tells us that they were Israelites to whom did appertain the adoption and the glory and the Covenants and the giving of the Law and the service of God and the promise and also saith they were a disobedient people and so by their disobedience they were marred in his hand for God did strive with them by his Prophets rising early and lying down late saying O that they would hearken to my Commandements then should their peace have been like a River and their Righteousness like unto the waves of the sea but as saith the Apostle in the ninth of the Romans that although the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the Sea-shore yet a Remnant shall be saved because saith he all the day long have I stretched forth my hands to a disobedient and gain-saying people but my people would not hearken to my voice Israel would have none of me O that my people had hearkend and Israel had walked in my waies Isa 63.9 For in all their afflictions he was afflicted and the Angel of his presence saved them and in his love and pity he bare them all the dayes of old but they rebelled viz. were marred in his hands and vexed his Holy Spirit therefore he turned to be their enemy and fought against them and thus God rejected them and made them another vessel being marred in his hands by their sins But here lyeth the Objection He made them another vessel faith Jeremy 18. but the Apostle in Rom. 9. speaketh of making of the same lump or vessel to honour and another to dishonour Answer It is evident that the Apostle reasoneth Gods power from his derree or determination concerning Israel because it is in answer to this Objection Obj. Why doth he yet find fault who hath resisted his will the answer is thus Nay O man who art thou that replyeth against God shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it why hast thou made me thus hath not the Potter power over the Clay to make of the same lump one vessel to honour and another to dishonour As if the Apostle should have said unto them do you ask why God doth find fault and who it is that hath resisted his will are you ignorant that you have alwayes resisted the Holy Ghost as did your Fathers surely you may remember that you are such as have stoned the Prophets and also crucified the Lord Jesus and yet do you say why doth he yet find fault who hath resisted his will nay O man remember who thou art that replyest against God canst thou have ought against him for scattering of thee into all parts of the earth as the chaffe is dispersed before the wind for hath not the Potter power over the clay to make it a dishonourable Vessel when it is marred in his God hath power according to his justice and mercy to save some of the lump of Israel even such as did humble themselves and cast away others that were stiff-necked 2 Tim. 2.20 hand and you are the clay and the Lord is the potter and ye have been marred and tempered by the Lord that is he hath sent his former Prophets and also his latter Prophets crying out unto you to return that sin might not be your ruine but you have resisted the Word of the Lord and put it far from you therefore the Lord hath power to deal with you as Jeremies potter did with his clay nay God hath power of the same lump to make one vessel to honour and another to dishonour that is God hath power to save some of the lump of Israel even such as did believe and obey the Gospel and also to cast away others of the same lump of the house of Israel which did refuse and rebell against him and yet be just when he judgeth and this is agreeable with the words of Paul to Timothy which saith But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and of earth and some to honour and some to dishonour And whereas the Apostle saith hath not the Potter
the knowledge of his wayes and so I passe to the next verse which is Vers 24. Even us whom he hath called nâ—t of the Jews onely but also of the Gentiles Annot. In this verse we learn who it is that God fits for glory and they are the called ones even us whom he hath called saith the Apostle not onely of the Jews but also of the Gentiles Now the question will be whether God call all or but some and if God call all then who they are that we may conclude to be the true called ones and that according to his purpose and first I shall shew that God calls all men as well those that perish as those that are saved And secondly I shall shew who may be accounted the true called ones according to Gods purpose and this I shall make plain as the Lord shall assist me And first to the first To shew that God calls all men under one administration or another and that this may appear to be truth I shall prove that God calls such as reject him and so perish for the sâ—me as saith the Scriptures ' Pro. 1.21 Iob 21 13. Jer. 18.12 13. Isa 3.10 Mat. 22 3 4 5 6. Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would have none of my reproof saying depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy waies for there is no hope but we will walk after our own devices and we will do every one according to the imagination of our evil hearts behold saith the Lord therefore I also I will chuse their delusion so as that they may eat the fruit of their own doings From whence we may see although very much more might be said that God calls such as do not obey his voyce and therefore perish for the same And secondly having shewed that God calls such as do perish and therefore consequently all for it is his will to have all men every where to repent Rom. 8.27 28 29. I come to the second thing which is to shew who they are that are accounted the true called ones of God even such as are the called according to his purpose the which are such as do obey the voyce of God in his call because when God calls men Such as obey Gods voyce when he calls hem and do what God purposed they should do are the called according to his purpose because they do what he purposed they should do his purpose is that they should hear and obey him because he never calls men to do that upon penalty of the losse of their souls but what he purposed they should do So then if Gods purpose be that men should do what he calls them for to do then such as do hear and obey in doing what God calls them for to do are the called according to Gods purpose for God did purpose when he called them that they should hear and obey him Therefore they in hearing and obeying do answer Gods purpose that is do what God purposed they should do and such as so do are the called according to his purpose according to the words of the Apostle Paul to the Romans which saith even us whom he hath called not out of the Jews onely but also out of the Gentiles and such vessels God hath power according to the attribute of his Justice and Mercy to make vessels unto honour and the other even such as reject him to dishonour and this is Gods way and power to separate the precious from the vile although they consist of one and the same family and this is the meaning of the Text that saith hath not the Petter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel to honor viz. such as hear obey the word of hâ—scal and the other to dishonour Jer. 12.7 Isa 65 12 13 14 15. Gal. 3.26 namely such as refuse to hear and obey the call of God but chuse their owne waie and thus having unfoulded the meaning of the 24. verse with its dependance I passe to the next which is Vers 25 As he saith also in Hosea I will call them my people which were not my people and her beloved which was not beloved Annot. This verse is a repetition of I prophecy of the call and choyce of the Gentiles through saith as if the Apostle should have said ye house of Israel think it not strange that the Gentiles should be heirs of the grace of life neither murmure at them for God hath shown and that by his Prophet Hosea that they were to be a loved people as will appear from the next verse which is as followeth Vers 26. And it shall come to passe that in the place where it was said unto them ye are not my people there shall they be called the children of the living God Annot. From whence we may see that the whole scope of the Apostles discourse in this Chapter is to prove that although the Jews were the elder people according to the denomination of God in reference to the Gentiles which was the younger or Prodigal son and for a time without God in the world yet God had an appointed time to call them through his grace in the Gospel unto sonship and also to cast off the Jews for their rebellion the which were accounted the elder Brother which alwaies did abide in their Fathers house the which will appear more plainly in the next verse which is thus read Vers 27. Isaiah also cryeth concerning Israel though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand on the sea a Remnant of them shall be saved Annot. From this verse we may learn that God is righteous in all his waies and will by no means clear the guilty although his mercies are extended to thousands that love him and keep his Commandements but if they forsake him although they be the dearly beloved of his soul he will give them into the hands of their enemies and call his servants by another name Hence it came to passe that God cast off the rebellious sons of the house of â—srael and chose the humble amongst them together with the penitent believing Gentiles and calls them by another name viz. the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus and this was Gods determination that in Isaac the seed should be called And thus in his wisdom and power he made some of the seed of Abraham vessels to honour even such as were obedient to the voice of his cal through Christ others of the seed of Abraham he made vessels to dishonour even such as did reject his call and say we will not come * Mat. 22.3 but we will walk every one in the imagination of our hearts and were stubborn before the Lord so then as the Potter had power to chuse out of his lump of clay that which was flexble and yielding to be