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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64283	Nathanael, or, An Israelite indeed lively portraied, and evidently proved to be an object most worthy both of our admiration and imitation, his priviledges and characters are also layd down : together with a discovery of the sinfulness and miserie of all hypocrites and strangers from the common-wealth of Israel / by Faithfull Teate ...	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1657 (1657)	Wing T613; ESTC R41538	79,460	204

who call not upon God dayly and duly in private and with their families upon whom the Lord hath threatned to poure out his fury Jer. 10.25 and yet alas how many families are there in every Town City that make little or no conscience of family prayer 6 covetuous and malecontented murmurers 7 unthankfull soules 8. rash false-swearers and such as swear by creatures instead of God 9 who put the evill day far from them 10. such as are contentious and injurious much more Murtherers Raylers Cursers 11 Stubborn and Disobedient Children with all false purloyning servants 12 neglecters of Gods publick worship with all Idolaters 13 unnaturall parents and bitter and cruell husbands 14. Apostates and backsliders All these together with all sorts of men women and children by nature of what nation or condition soever they be are as yet forreigners to the Common-wealth of Israel Eph. 2.12 and have neither part nor portion in all or any of the honour or happinesse which appertains to true Christians and if they continue in the state wherein they are till death the wrath of God shall surely seize and abide upon them for ever Branch 2 Secondly This might serve though I know nothing can serve to convert any till the Lord take away the scales from their eyes and hardness from their hearts to take downe the pride of all unbelieving and carnal Jewes who call themselves the holy seed the people of God Israelites and the children of Abraham whom Iohn Baptists reproves Mat. 3.9 for haveing so much as a thought to say we have Abraham for our father and our Saviour proves them to be degenerate Ioh. 8.39 by this demonstrative argument If ye were Abrahams children ye would do the works of Abraham But ye do not the works of Abraham therefore you are not Abrahams children but of your father the devil v. 40 41 42. And Saint Paul in sundry places disproveth them by distinguishing between right and titular Iewes Rom. 2.17.25 26 27 and between children according to the flesh and children according to promise Rom. 9.6 They are not all Israel which are of Israel saith he neither because they are the seed of Abraham a e they all children v. 7. But the children of the promise are counted for the seed And this distinction is held forth in the old Testament as a most certain truth from the beginning for king Saul an Israelite according to the flesh of the tribe of Benjamin 1 Sam. 9.1 2. is yet by the spirit of God termed an heathen Psal 59.5.8 compared with the title of the Psalm for Saul was an Israelite by descent but an heathen in his manners On the other side Ithra was an Ishmaelite by birth for so he is called 1. Chron. 2.17 and yet is he termed an Israelite because he was a proselyte or an Israelite by grace 2 Sam. 17.25 And unless all the rest of Abrahams posterity can demonstrate their descent from Abraham to be spiritual as well as carnal all the benefit they shall gaine thereby will be the greater indignation and wrath as Paul hath foretold Rom. 2.8 9. Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every soul of man that doth evil of the Iew first and also of the gentile Vse 3 3ly This serves for direction and consolation to them who among Iewes or Gentiles will follow this direction Direction Quest If any here demand Is there not then any door of hope left for all those who are excluded out of the number of true Israelites as yet by the foregoing characters and instances Answ Yes there is hope in Israel concerning these not onely the Iewes but also the sinners of the Gentiles by nature as scripture stileth them Gal. 7.15 But this hope and consolation is propounded only conditionally To begin with the Iew there is hope layd down for him that he may be graffed into Christ upon this condition that he become a true believer on his name as the great Apostle of the gentiles declareth Rom. 11.23 They also Rom. 11.23 if they bide not still in unbelief shall be graffed in for God is able to graffe them in again Then come to the gentiles yea take the worst in all the series or pack of them who is alive or hereafter shall live in this world there is a conditional ground of hope comfort for every one of them except they have committed that unpardonable sin against the holy Ghost for they may become Israelits by grace and so be made partakers of the highest priviledges and forementioned glory For blessed be the Lord of the whole earth as he is entituled Psal 95.5 He hath 1. Prophesied of the conversion of the Gentiles that they shall come unto him from the ends of the Earth Jerem. 16.19 2 Sam. 22.44 45. 2. He hath invited all the ends of the earth to looke unto him and be saved Isa 45.22 3. He hath promised that in Abrahams seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed Genes 22.18 and that all the ends of the world shall remember and turne unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him for the kingdom is the Lords and he is governour among the nations Psal 18.27 28. and in him shall the Gentiles trust Isa 11.10 4. Many fervent prayers have beene made on our behalf for this end recorded in the oracles of God witness Noahs prayer God perswade Iaphet to dwell in the tents of Shem Genes 9.27 and the Churches supplications in after ages Psal 67.2 3 4 5. Cantic 8.8 c. 5. From the beginning the Lord gave to his son Iesus Christ the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession Psal 2.8 6. Some of the Gentiles in all ages have beene brought in to embrace the faith as Rahab the harlot Jam. 2.25 Ruth the Moabitess Ruth 3.11 and the widdow of Sarepta Luk. 4.26 with many others forerunners of the residue of the heathen in the fulness of time to be brought home to Christ 7. God gave his son to be a light to the Gentiles as well as the glory of his people Israel Luk. 2.30 8. When our Saviour Christ the Lord was newly born the Angel brought to the shepheards glad tydings of great joy appertaining to all people Luk. 2.10 9. The precious blood of the Lamb of God was shed to take away the sin of the world Joh. 1.29 and he is the propitiation for our sins saith Saint John and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole world 1 Joh. 2.2 10 By the death of Jesus Christ the middle wall of partition is broken down who abolished in his flesh the enmity for to make in himself of twain one new man so making peace Eph. 2.14 15. This is to be accounted an unspeakable mercy to us sinners of the Gentiles 1. It is such a mercy as was denyed to all nations that ever lived before Christ excepting some few persons whom