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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89645	A little starre, giving some light into the counsels and purposes of God revealed in the Scriptures. Or A catechisme, wherein these ensuing principles. 1. What God is, and how he manifests himselfe. 2 Why he made the world and man. 3. Mans condition, what, 1. by creation. 2. By his fall. 3. By being restored by Jesus Christ. 4 The uses and ends of the law. 5. What the Gospell is. 6. Justification what it is. 7. Sanctification what, and how it is wrought. 8. What repentance is. 9. The use and ends of the Scriptures. 10. What true prayer is. 11. Baptisme, and the Lords Supper, why, and how used. 12. Generall redemption what, and how to be adjudged of. 13. Resurrection and judgement what. 14. Heaven and Hell what, in truth and misterie. All which are briefly by way of question and answer opened and explained. / By VVilliam Mason.	Mason, William, Anabaptist.	1653 (1653)	Wing M948; Thomason E1505_1; ESTC R208669	86,553	204

all temporal blessings were made to the outward conformity and literal observations of the Law the Lord being pleased to deal with them as with children even to hire them to an outward conformity unto the same by giving them outward prosperity But the Covenant as it was inward and spiritual respected onely spiritual Israel believers both Jewes and Gentiles in all ages and in all nations to the end of the world Yet notwithstanding the Ordinances of the Law or Covenant were to continue but for a season namely until the promised seed should come which is Christ Q. What were those Ordinances and Services of the Law or Covenant A. First there was the Tabernacle and afterward the Temple which were representations of the flesh of Christ and also of the Saints in whom God would please to dwell and manifest himself And then there was the Priesthood of Aaron signifying the eternal Priesthood of Christ And there were also many Sacrifices and Offerings which did betoken the Sacrifice of Christ who should by that one offering of himself to God obtain eternal redemption for them And there were many and divers washings and cleansings which did shew forth the bloud of Christ which can onely wash and cleanse away all sin These and many others being visible representations and significations of Christ in the flesh his perfect fulfilling of the Law his making satisfaction to divine Justice c. All which were to be fulfilled and accomplished in him which being done the significations were to cease and to be of no more use Q. The Gentiles or Heathen had no fellowship or communion at all with the Israelites but were utter enemies unto them and hated them and sought their ruine continually How or in what respect then did the Law or the Covenant therein contained concern the Gentiles or belong to them A. The Lord having in his eternal purpose chosen to himself a people to be heires of life by Christ Jesus did yet notwithstanding for many generations suspend the manifestation of his love and favour unto all the people of the world except the seed of Abraham or the Israelites onely whom he had brought near to himself and to whom he manifested his great love not onely in outward and temporal blessings but chiefly in spiritual administrations withall forbidding them to have any communion with any nation whatsoever unlesse they would be circumcised and worship God according as he had commanded them which thing occasioned such an enmity and hatred in all nations against the Israelites that they would not be reconciled unto them at any hand yea though the enemies were very different in Religion and Idol-worship and hated one another even unto death yet they could agree together against the Israel of God to root out their name from the earth And this enmity or hatred was not against them as they were men or because they were of different nations but herein lay the enmity because the Israelites did worship the true God with such holy worship as he had commanded the seed of the Serpent or the Devil in all false worships and religions persecuting the seed of the woman or Christ and the Saints in the true Religion and pure worship of God in all agés and so the hatred was not onely against the Israelites in their persons but even against the good wayes of God in his pure worship and herein against God himself The great mystery that the Gentiles should be heires of life with the Jewes partakers of the same promises and of the same body was not yet revealed but kept secret But now they who were sometimes afarre off were made nigh by the bloud of Christ for Christ by subjecting himself in the flesh to death did break down that partition wall and that enmity that was between Jewes and Gentiles being slain thereby so that although they before were twain and hated one another yet now by the death of Christ they were united and made one and not onely reconciled to one another but also to God through faith in Jesus Thus the Gentiles by the preaching of the Gospel came to know that which before they did not know even to believe their Son-ship and their interest in the Covenant by Jesus Christ yet notwithstanding they were not under the Law as it was a Covenant of works for temporal blessings for so it concerned the Israelites onely and according as they acted to the command so they prospered in their temporal estates and this part of the Covenant was peculiar onely unto them But as the Law was spiritual and contained in it a Covenant of grace so all the elect both Jewes and Gentiles were concluded in it it being an eternal Covenant made with all the Saints in Jesus Christ in the eternal purpose of God before the world began and in due time manifested according to the dispensation of God who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will that is who revealeth and discovereth himself in Jesus to whomsoever after what way soever and in what time soever he himself pleaseth But yet the Gentiles were not under those legall services and formal observations of the Covenant as the Passeover Circumcision all those Sacrifices and Offerings those legall washings and cleansings in a word all that Temple-worship whatsoever they being all fulfilled consummated and ended in Christ for now in this way of Temple-worship neither Jewes nor Gentiles were to worship God he having withdrawn himself in his appearances out of all these things but now both Jewes and Gentiles were to look unto God in Christ in whom and by whose most precious death and bloud-shedding he declared himself to be fully satisfied for all those transgressions and disobediences from which they could not be justified by the workes of the Law Q. The Gentiles indeed were not to observe those legall Worships and Services which the Jewes did But were they not to make the Law of God the rule of their obedience A. The Law as it was delivered to Israel upon the Mount so it was a revelation of the most holy and perfect will of God and so it was the rule of their obedience Now the Law being of a twofold consideration it was the will of God that their obedience should be suteable thereto First As the Law was outward and respected onely the outward man so it was his will that they should be obedient in all things to the very letter and form of all his commands and herein they were to act with all their strength in case they would be outwardly happy But secondly As the Law was spirituall and concerned the inward man so their obedience was to be answerable to the will of God herein Now it was not the will of God that they should act herein according to the letter and think to attain Righteousnesse by a strict