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A85485	The progresse of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey Church of Westminster before the house of Peers, on the 24th of September, 1645. being the day of their monethly fast. / By William Gouge, one of the members of the Assembly.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1393; Thomason E302_25; ESTC R200284	30,328	48

by the Prophets Many apply sundry prophecies that tend that way to the delivery of the Jews from the Babylonish Captivity and others to the spirituall Israel consisting of Gentiles But assuredly such prophecies as fore-tell the re-uniting of Judah and Ephraim together have especiall reference to the fore-said recalling of the Jews as that Parable whereof this our Prophet maketh mention about joyning two sticks on the one whereof was written For Judah and for the children of Israel his companions and on the other For Joseph the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions That Parable the Prophet thus applieth I will make them one Nation and one King shall be King to them all c. But if any shall question this and other prophecies of the ancient Prophets The Apostle Paul hath so expresly fore-told a recalling of the Jews and thereupon a bringing in a fullness of the Gentiles as no question can be made thereof and he doth after such a manner expresse these as apparently declareth a future glory of the Christian Church Some particular expressions of his in the 11. to the Romans are these 1. Vers 11. Having propounded this Question concerning the Jews Have they stumbled that they should fall namely totally and finally never to be raised again He gives this answer God forbid Whereby he implieth that assuredly they shall be raised again that is they shall be made a visible Church of Christ and submit themselves to his ordinances 2. Vers 12. This supposition If the fall of them be riches of the world and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles how much more their fullnesse By their fullnesse he meaneth their bringing them in to the Church of Christ consisting of Gentiles and thereby making that Church full when both Gentiles and Jews shall be joyned together 3. Vers 15. This Question What shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead doth take it for grant that they shall be received and taken into the Church of Christ and that this restauration of theirs will be as a new glorious resurrection 4. Vers 23. It is said They also shall be graffed in namely into the body of the Christian Church and a proof thereof is taken from Gods omnipotency For God is able to graff them in again 5. Vers 24. This emphaticall Interrogation How much more shall these which be the naturall branches he graffed into their own Olive-tree doth put it out of all question that the Jews shall again be brought to be of the true Church which is the Olive-tree here intended 6. Vers 25. This restrictive particle In part blindenesse in part is happened unto Israel doth import that they shall not be finally blinded but that at length they shall come to have their eyes so opened as they shall know and believe in Jesus Christ This is further manifested by expressing the period of this limitation thus Vntill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in 7. Verse 26. This generall phrase All Israel shall be saved sheweth that there is a time to come when not only two or three or a few Jews here and there thorowout the Christian Church as have been in all ages thereof but the whole Nation shall be called 8. Vers 31. This phrase Through your mercy they also may obtain mercy sheweth that God purposely suffered them sometime to abide in unbelief that when they should be brought to believe this grace and honour might appear to arise from Gods meer mercy and free grace The words following in the next verse doe shew as much They are these For God hath concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all Thus we see that there is a calling of the Jews to come and that their calling shall be as a resurrection from the dead as an incision of many more branches into a glorious tree that it shall be an universall conspicuous calling of a whole Nation wherein the freenesse and largenesse of Gods grace and mercy shall be evidently manifested At which time there shall be also such a number of Gentiles brought in as may well be called the fulnesse of the Gentiles vers. 25. This certainly shall be a most glorious condition of the Christian Church and this is yet to come therefore God will yet doe better things for us In expectation whereof we may comfort our selves though for a while thick clouds of troubles doe over-spread the face of the Church and somewhat eclipse the glorious brightnesse thereof Yea further we may expect better things then yet we doe enjoy upon the fore-mentioned progresse of Gods good providence before that glorious calling of the Jews be accomplished For the Jews after this promise made before the first comming of the Messiah and calling of the Gentiles had conferred upon them many better things then before They were brought out of Captivity to their own Land A second Temple was built The Law was restored unto them by Ezra and many other blessings So after Christs first comming the Gospel was preached in many Nations multitudes of Churches were erected and established the Gospel confirmed by many undaunted Martyrs Yea after much persecution the Church had great rest and liberty in Constantines and other Christian Emperours times And though that rest and liberty were in time exceedingly abused by the ambition of Prelates which at length brought it to the height of Papacy yet God by a Reformation in these later times shewed that he was mindefull of this his promise and did better things for her then before This may further be exemplified by Gods doing better for us here in England then at our beginnings For as the thick dark cloud of Antichristianisme over-spread the skie of the whole Christian Church for many years together so did it clean keep away the bright shining of the Gospel from England But it pleased God almost three hundred years agoe in the raign of Edward the third to raise up John Wickliff a Professour at Oxford to hold out the light of the Gospel so as many in those daies were much enlightned thereby Among other principles wherein he instructed the people these were some 1. The Eucharist after consecration is not the very body of Christ but figuratively 2. The Church of Rome is not the head of all Churches more then any Church is Nor hath Peter any more power given of Christ then any other Apostle hath 3. The Pope of rome hath no more in the keyes of the Church then any other within the order of Priesthood 4. The Gospel is a rule sufficient of it self to rule the life of every Christian man here without any other rule 5. All other rules under whose observances divers religious persons be governed doe adde no more perfection to the Gospel then doth the white colour to the wall These and other like positions wrought so effectually upon the hearts of noble and mean persons as this may