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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

them that came to hinder it For he answered saying Who is my mother and who are my brethren Marke 3. 33. 2. The power of Elias in Reformation was exceeding much and he did wondrous things in what he did but yet he left exceeding much undone which he could not helpe and abundance of corruption which he could not remove He tooke away Baalim but he could not take away the golden Calves he destroyed the Prophets of the one but he could not destroy the Prophets of the other Foure hundred and fifty Prophets of Baal perished by his meanes at Carmel and yet are there foure hundred false Prophets left that seduce Ahab to goe to Ramoth Thus impossible is an utter extipation of all corruption out of a State and Church that is corrupt Lay these two now together in the two scales of an unprejudicate judgement and they will helpe very well to ballance and to poize a right your thoughts and censures concerning these Worthies that are toyling in our worke Some thinke they have beene too forward others thinke they have beene too slow some that they have done too much others that they have done too little some complaine of too much zeale and some of too little reformation To the former may be answered that Elias must be zealous if he will reforme to the latter that Elias cannot utterly purge out all corruption though he be Elias and to both together that in stead of murmuring against them it were farre fitter to be thankfull to God for them for that he hath put so much zeale into their hearts and so much reformation already into their hands as that we see more already then we expected ever to have seene The same Lord continue the same Spirit unto them and increase the Power that their hearts and their hands may hold up and grow strong that we may see the salvation of the Lord exerted by them for the reconciling of the disaffected and the reducing of the disobedient And so I passe to the third part of the text the worke of the Baptist to turne the hearts of the fathers to the children c. The case was wofull when father and sonne had need of a reconciler to make them friends yet was it theirs then and so is it ours now It was a very hard taske surely to John the Baptist to turne the hearts of the fathers to the children or to doe this worke for I finde it a very hard taske and trouble to expositors to finde out and to resolve who these fathers and children were Some by the fathers understand the Jewes and by the children Christ and his Apostles as Luke 11. 19. and that John turned the hearts of the fathers to the children when he brought the Jewes to imbrace their Doctrine but how can the other part be made good with this glosse that he turned the heart of Christ and his Apostles to the Jewes Some render it thus He shall turne the heart of the fathers to the Children by the right understanding of the Scriptures and the disobedient to the wisdome of the righteous by the obedience of faith An exposition that leaveth us as farre to seek who were the fathers and who the children as we were before Others therefore come nearer the letter and expound it from the difference that was at that time in opinions among the Jewes the father it may be a Pharisee and one sonne a Sadducee and another an Essaean and John by bringing them all to the entertainment of the Gospel extinguished that division which opinions had set betweene them It is true indeed that these three Sects were among the Jewes at the Baptists comming the three Shepheards which were to be destroyed in one moneth Zach. 11. 8. but for any such division in Sect betwixt father and sonnes it is but a conjecture and it cannot be so certainly averred But furthest off of all other glosses and the most improper is that of Jansenius and others of his feather which yet they hold to be the nearest and the properest of all and that is this That John turned the hearts of the children to the fathers when he brought the Jewes to whom he preached or those of his owne time to imbrace the faith and doctrine of the Patriarchs that had beene before and the hearts of the fathers to the children when by reducing them thus to that faith he occasioned that those holy men in Limbo did beginne to affect them and take them to heart which they had not done before I will not stand to examine or convince this exposition for it is not worth the labour you your selves have confuted it in thought I know as soone as heard it The most genuine and reall meaning of the words that we have in hand I conceive to be this That by the Fathers are to be understood the Jewes and by the Children the Gentiles and by Johns turning each others heart unto others his winning them both joyntly and unanimously to the knowledge and profession of Christ and of the Gospel and by the tie of that to the joynt communion one with another And I am made confident and imboldened to entertaine this exposition as the very meaning of the place upon these reasons 1. Because the Church of the Gentiles is stiled by the name of the children of the Jews cōmonly and constantly in the Prophets as Esay 54. 13. All thy children shall be taught of the Lord and 60. 4. Thy sonnes shall come from farre and thy daughters shall be turned at thy sight and 62. 5. As a young man marrieth a Virgin so shall thy sonnes marry thee And in very many other places 2. Because it was a speciall and peculiar worke and office of the Gospel to unite and tie the Jew and Gentile into one so saith the Apostle Ephes. 2. 14. Christ is our peace who hath made both one and the Gospel the meanes And then must it be the worke and office of the Baptist who began the Gospel 3. Experience and the History it selfe confirmeth this our exposition for as the Gospel in its owne nature and promulgation belonged to the Gentiles as well as the Jewes and as John came for a witnesse that all through him might beleeve the one Nation as well as the other so did he baptize and convert some of the one as well as the other Romane Souldiers as well as Jewish Pharisees and make them both according to the phrase which Josephus useth of him {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to convent or knit together in his Baptisme 4. This exposition maketh John the more fully to resemble Elias who was a Preacher and a Prophet to the Gentiles as well as to Israel nay the first Prophet of the Gentiles This our Saviour toucheth Luke 4. 25. Many widowes were in Israel in the dayes of Elias but to none was he sent saving to one in Sarepta a City of Zidon and the