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A10135	The table of the Lord whereof, 1. The vvhole seruice, is the liuing bread. 2. The guests, any man. 3. The mouth to eate, faith onely. By Gilbert Primerose, Doctour of Divinitie, one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary, and pastour of the French church at London.	Primrose, Gilbert, ca. 1580-1642.	1626 (1626)	STC 20392; ESTC S114083	64,701	238

and to him that is neere saith the Lord and I will heale him that is to say according to the interpretation of the Apostle peace to the Gentiles which f Eph. 2.12.17 were strangers from the Couenants of promise hauing no hope and being without God in the world and therfore were farre off and peace to the Iewes which had the Covenants of promise and in that respect had g Deut. 4.7 God nigh vnto them THE one and the other was figured by the burnt offerings h Levit. 11.11 the blood wherof was sprinckled round about vpon the Altar to teach the people that the bloud of the Messias was to be shed for the elect which dwell every where vpon the globe of the earth As when the high Priest did i Exod. 20.24 Levit. 7.34 Levit. 10.14 waue the waue offering and shake it to and fro and k Exod. 29.27 heaue vp the heaue offering he figured that which Christ said that l Ioh. 12.32 33. if he were lifted vp he would draw all men vnto him This he said signifying what death he should die WHATSOEVER was prophecied and figured hath beene punctually fulfilled Christ commanded his Apostles m Mat. 28.19 to teach all Nations What he commanded they did At his death n Mat. 27.51 the vaile of the Temple was rent in twaine from the top to the bottome to signifie that by the power of his death o Eph. 2.14 the middle wall of partition betweene vs and the Iewes is broken downe the enmitie is abolished and of twain we are made in him one new man Now the p Rom. 1.16 Gospell is the power of God to saluation to euery one that beleeueth to the Iew and to the Greeke Now according to the prediction of Christ q Mat. 8.11 many come from the East and West sit downe with Abraham and Isaac and Iacob in the kingdome of heaven and these many are r Rev. 7.4.9 of all Nations and kindred and people and tongues as well as of Iewes Now ſ Math. 15.26.27 the dogs doe no more eate the scraps of the childrens bread which fall from their Maisters Table But by a most mercifull wonder are of dogs made the children of God and sit with him at his Table The Iewes were first called to this glorious feast Vpon their refusall t Luk. 14.21 the poore the maimed the halt the blind are brought in This was and is to the Iewes a heart-breaking sorrow S u Act. 10.28 Peter himselfe at the first repined against it x Act. 11. ● 2.18 The rest of the Apostles the brethren that were in Iudea contended with Peter about it and when they were better informed they spake of it as of a great wonder S. Paul calleth it y Rom. 16.25.26 a mysterie which was kept secret since the world began for although that now by the Scriptures of the Prophets it is made knowne to all Nations yet the manner thereof that a Eph. 3.3.5.6 the Gentiles should be fellow-heires and of the same body and partakers of the promise of God in Christ by the Gospell not by the Law by faith not by Circumcision without any observation of Iudaicall feasts Ambros ib. fasts abstinences dayes and other elements of the Iewish discipline was not revealed to any of the Prophets was not made knowne in other ages to the sonnes of men was first reuealed vnto the Apostles and Prophets of their time by the Spirit Now our little children see it and know it more clearly then Abraham the Father of the beleevers then Dauid who spake so much of it then all the Prophets did THAT which was to the Iewes a heart-sorrow to the Prophets a booke sealed to the Apostles a mysterie to the first Christians of Iudea a wonder is to vs our salvation Shall it not also be our ioy and the matter of our thāksgiving b Rom. 9.23.24 God hath made knowne the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he afore had prepared vnto glory Even vs whom he hath called not of the Iewes onely but also of the Gentiles And shall not we hearken to the exhortatiō of the Apostle and c Rom. 15.9.11 Psal 117. glorifie God for his mercy As it is written O prayse the Lord all ye Nations Praise him all ye people For his merciful kindnesse is great toward vs and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever When Christ was borne in Bethlehem which is interpreted the house of bread to be the living bread to the dead the Angels of heaven who for their owne particular had no interest in his birth ioyned themselues in a great host to praise God saying and singing d Luk. 2.14 Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will towards men And shall not we who are these men for whom he is come we who feede every day on him sing prayse glory and honour to God who hath sent him to be our bread and hath called vs to eate of this bread Shall we not say and sing with Dauid e Psa 18.49 Therefore will I giue thanks vnto thee O Lord among the Heathen and sing prayses vnto thy Name CHAPTER III. I. All kinde of persons in any Nation may eate of the living bread according to the Prophecies and types of the Law II. And the doctrine of the Gospell III. Three vses of this doctrine IS f Rom 3.29 GOD the God of the Iewes onely Is he not also of the Gentiles Yea of the Gentiles also and of any man amongst Iewes and Gentiles without distinction of persons According to the prophecie of Esaiah g Esa 60.3 The Gentiles shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightnesse of thy rising Not Kings onely but Kings aswell as men of meaner sort but men of meane condition aswell as Kings h Psal 22.26.29 The meeke shall eate and be satisfied All they that be fat vpon earth shall eate and worship Vnder the Law there were sacrifices not onely for but also for poore men He which had not l Levit. 1.3.10.14 a bullocke of the heard to offer came with a Lambe or a kid of the flocke and was accepted And m Levit. 12.6.8 the woman which after her purificatiō was not able to bring a Lambe and a Pigeon for her oblation was quit for two turtles or two yong pigeons For Christ is a propitiatorie Sacrifice for rich and poore men and women And as all persons of all qualities which were bitten with the fierie Serpents in the wildernesse were healed when they looked vpon the Serpent of brasse which Moses had set vpon a pole according to the Word of God n Num. 21.8 Euery one that is bitten when he looketh vpon it shall line o Ioh. 3.14 15. Even so said Christ of himselfe must the Sonne of man he lifted vp that whosoever beleeveth in him should