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A88141 Elias redivivus: a sermon preached before the honorable House of Commons, in the parish of Saint Margarets West minster, at the publike fast, March 29, 1643. By John Lightfoote, preacher of the Gospel at Bartholomew Exchange, London. Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675. 1643 (1643) Wing L2053; Thomason E99_11; ESTC R20324 33,230 56

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righteous or in the imbracing of that Religion which the righteous ones among the Jewes professed and which the Gentiles till they knew and understood what it meant accounted but vanity singularity and folly 2. It is remarkable that the Angel doth forsake the proper and common word used to signifie wisedome which is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and taketh up {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which is of a something stricter and stranger use And so doth the Syriack relinquish Hhechmetho its ordinary word that it useth for wisdom and fixeth upon Jedhangro a word more singular and of more peculiar importance The Originall word then that we have in hand doth not onely import the wisedome or Religion of the Jewes but also the Gentiles attaining to the knowledge and apprehension of that Religion and wisedome with them Not onely the theory and practise of the Jewish Nation in their religious profession but the Heathens reaching to the understanding of those mysteries in that Religion and profession which they had accounted such vanity and senselesnesse before So that this word considerately looked into will afford us this collection That it is not enough to imbrace the true Religion in outward profession but we are to have understanding and to be acquainted with the doctrine and principles of that Religion For the Heathen to turne to the wisedome of the righteous Jewes in an outside profession and an ignorant religiousnesse was a poore conversion as good as none a worke unfit the paines of the Baptist but their true turning and his powerfull worke is when they are brought to imbrace that Religion in the knowledge and understanding of the mysteries of it Ignorance was never the mother of any devotion but of a Romish devotion which is as good or as bad as none And lastly there is some doubtfulnesse also in the last word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for it may be indifferently translated of righteous things or of righteous men But it is the more undoubted that persons and persons are rather here compared together then persons and things in the former part of this work of the Baptist there are fathers and children and in this part it is most like that they are answered with persons againe disobedient children and righteous fathers and the meaning of the Angel to be this that as the Jews the fathers in the imbracing of the Gospel shall be turned to God reconciled to the Gentiles so the Gentiles the children in the wisdome of the righteous or in the imbracing and understanding of the Religion professed by the righteous ones that had bin were among the Jewes should be turned to God and in affection to the Jewes And hereupon might we take up this observation that the faith of the holy Jewes under the Law and of the holy Gentiles under the Gospel was one and the same They that went before Christ in the one and they that followed Christ in the other did both cry Hosanna to the Sonne of David did both obtaine salvation by the same Saviour and by the same way And so have I gone with the words as farre as I dare be bold upon the time your patience and occasions I will but put this last clause together which I have thus taken peece-meale and laid asunder and so have I done The disobedient to the wisedome of the righteous the Heathen to the knowledge of the true Religion Me thinkes in these words we may behold the condition of this Land as it hath beene in ancient times and as it is in these of ours We were once Loammi no people of the Lords and utter aliens from his congregation we sate and that not very long agoe in darknesse and in the shadow of death and it is no wonder if we might be called Disobedient But God who is good to all and whose tender mercies are over all his workes hath come in unto us and shone upon us He hath discharged us of the name of Heathens oh that we could discharge ourselves of the title of Disobedient he hath brought us into the wisedome of the righteous unto the knowledge of the Gospel and of salvation oh that we could drive on through that to God! He hath made us more Israel then Israel it selfe and whereas we were once the furthest off of any Nation from this wisedome he hath brought this wisedome to us to no Nation nearer Now what thankfulnesse doth so great a mercy call for for its bestowing and what prayers for its continuance Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which thus hath visited his people with his Gospel and redeemed them out of the darknesse of superstition And the blessing of the God of Israel be still upon his own gift that it may continue and still flourish among us Let not the Candle which he himselfe hath lighted be ever put out Nor let the Candlesticke which he himselfe hath placed be ever moved out of its place Let scattered Popery never cloud us againe nor superstition overwhelme us Let Religion and the Gospel be in all our borders and peace and truth in all our times And to these our prayses and to these our prayers let all the people say Amen Amen and Amen FINIS Die Mercurii 29. Martii 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament that Sir Edward Littleton a Member of the said House doe returne thankes to Mr. Lightfoote for the great paines he tooke in the Sermon he preached this day at Saint Margarets in the City of Westminster at the intreaty of the said House it being the day of publike Humiliation and that he intreat him to Print his Sermon And it is Ordered that no man shall Print the said Sermon but who shall be authorized under the handwriting of the said Mr. Lightfoote H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Andrew Crooke to Print my Sermon John Lightfoote R. Sol. in Ex. 21 Luke 2. 46. Talm. in Sanhed cap. Dine mammonoth Mat. 10. 36. Antonio di Guevarra in Rel●x de los princip. lib. 1. cap. 2. The Apocrypha injurious to the two Testaments * 1 King 6. 27. How the Apocrypha came into request How it continued Vid. R. Sol. R. Menal. in lo 1 King 7. 21. Luk. 10. 1. The Ministry of Iohn the beginning of the Gospell The Ministery of Iohn of two parts Baptisme used under the law Ab. Ezr. in Gen. 35. Tom. 1. p. 317. Asure blah perek 13. 1 King 5. 15. 16. * 49 8 Vid. R. Sol. ●arch in Ex. 24. Observ. Jews corruption in manner Talm. Sanh pag. 97. R. Dav. Kimek on Isay 59. Iews vehement addiction to their traditions and legall rites 2 King 5. 11. Jewes misconceit concerning the Messias Esay 53. 2. Zech. 9 9. John 7. 42. Acts 13. 27. Dan. 9 26. Jer. ●1 9. Matth. 5. 29. 30. Judg. 9. 9. Judg. 12. 6. The second part Ezek. 37. 19. Observ. De Elia praeterito vid. R. Lev. Gersh in 1 Reg. 27. De vent vid. R. Dav. Kimeh in Mal. 4. Sic etiam Bed● in l●o Amb. Epiph. c. Haeres 70. Vid. Cornel. à Lapide in Apoc. 11. 3. Aleazer ibid. The two witnesses Rev. 11 A ministery in the spirit and power of Moses and Elias at the Jewes conversion Tropicall phrases Luke 9. 33. Luk. 16. 12. Gal. 1. 8. 2 Cor. 4. 7. 2 Thes. 2. 8. vid. Chald. Paron Esay 11. 4. in edit. Buxtorf Easeb hist. Eccles. lib. 3. cap. 39. Joh. 10. 41. 2 King 2. 15. Num. 11. 25. Observ. Exod. 26. 40. 26. 30. 27. 8. Heb. 8. 4. 5. Vid. R. D. Rimchi in Reg. in Molach Elias his zeale {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} he is besides himself in the Syriack Arab. vulg. Lat. Ital. of Deodate the Spanish hath it he goeth out of his calling estate in marg. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the Lxx. Gen. 45. 26. 1 King 18. 19 40. 1 King 22. 6. Vid. Carthis Maldon in Lec Joseph Antiq. lib. 18. cap. 2. Fathers and Children Jews and Gentiles John 1. 7. Ioseph Ant. lib. 18. cap. 7. Gen. 3. 15. Matth. 15. 26. Acts 11. 18. Reas. 1. Esay 11. 6 7. Reas. 2. Reas. 3. Use 1. Acts and Mon. old edit. pag. 10● Use 2. 2 King 9. 22. Belial i. e. an Idol The children of Belial i. e. Idolaters Difference of allegation Reason of it Disobedient {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Disobedient or unbeleeving Matth. 1. 4. Observ. Rab. Abhuhabh in Ner. 1. Hab. 2 4. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Folly Psal. 85. 9. Observ. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} In the wisdome Observ. The cause of a Jews hatred of a Gentile 1 Cor. 2. 2. 4 5 6 Rev. 13. 16. c. Observ. Observ. Psal. 145. 9.