time after was it in any suitable manner taken notice of or displayed in publique till the Spirit of God in a four-fold witnesse gave testimony of all these things when after that by doctrine by holinesse by miracles by sufferings by death and a powerfull raising of himselfe to life having slaine all enmitie thereby he was powerfully declared to be the Sonne of God yea so was the light of his appearing eclypsed in the worlds eye that after Ages could not finde out the time or season when that his birthglory did first shine out and therefore the Fathers vid Jerome Cyprian upon severall grounds have anciently argued for different seasons as likewise later times have differed therein divine Oracles being particularly silent as if of old God by the buriall of Moses body by him would prevent the Israelites adoring of his sepulchre so as some conceive he would conceale the season of his nativity neither doe we reade in Scripture any like celebration but that of Herod de porcorum grege Epicurus Nor is the day of a Conquerors taking up Armes celebrated as glorious but the day of his victory and conquest nor was the first day of the Creation appointed by God to be observed at first for his Sabbath but the day when his work was finished and by the same Law upon Greater enforcement is the day of the Lord his Resurrection day as the day of his victory conquest and triumph over sin death and hell with all the powers of darknesse by himselfe substituted as his own for a continuall Christian Sabbath to be observed and celebrated in his Universall Church for the honour and glory of such their wonderfull deliverance then accomplished by him throughout all Ages from Sabbath to Sabbath so long as the Sunne and Moone shall endure and herein is the glorious mysterie of God so accomplished to be admired that the bleer-eyed world is not able to behold the divine brightnesse of it and so it hath been since in the Apostles and after Ages as the mysterie of God hath been in fulfilling the great things of Christ have been hid from their eyes Christ crusified hath been to the Jewes a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishnesse while to them that believe it is the power of God to salvation The Apostles were mean in the eyes of the Great ones of the world when they went on Christs Embassie into the world yet they went conquering and to conquer by preaching praying improvement of all spirituall grace even in suffering and dying after the example of their great Soveraigne they greatly prevailed over the powers of the world over the strength and subtiltie of sin and Satan And have not the two Witnesses the contemporaries of Antichristian tyranny done so too and shall they not more prevaile still and maugre all vaine imaginations of any men or counsells taken by them against Christ Yet will not God set his King upon his holy hill of Sion Yea will it not be both the honour and happinesse of the Greatest Potentates upon earth to kisse the Sonne and give the glory of their Scepters unto him that as they reigne by him so they may reigne for him and in his good time may likewise reigne with him in endlesse glory But what is this Historical hint as it may be called of this mystical manner of gradual fulfilling of gospel Glory somewhat observable indeed in the eyes of the Saints but little in the eyes of Men of the world But if we come to speak of the inward glory of true gospel Grace spiritually glorious in the soules of Gods faithful people for the Kings daughter is all glorious within We may say of this as the Queen of Sheba after she had heard in her own Country the same of King Solomons wisdome and magnificence when she came to his Court to heare and see the truth of both that she confessed the half thereof was not formerly shewed unto her So much more may it be said of inward Divine glorious Grace shining from Christ into the souls of his servants in his spiritual manifestations of himself unto them the injoyment of which soule-chearing solace is incomparably beyond what any Historical narration thereof can represent it to be and not to go about to speak of that consummate glory belonging to them reserved for another world here not to be conceived much less competently decyphered but only to touch upon that incoate glory here transmitted by the holy Spirit into the souls of the faithful as that which is more particularly intended in our Text the subject now in hand which is so great that it may well appear to be the design of God to Glorifie himself eminently by this in his Church in this life For should I speak but of those resemblances in Scripture which the Spirit of God sheweth but to shaddow out unto our weak sight the radiant beams of spiritual Gospel glory the expressions will appear much below the matter though in themselves they be very high as namely the hidden Manna The water of life for food yea the fat things and pleasures of Gods house the marrow and fatness there and wines on the lees well refined Isa 25. 6. for their feasting eye salve for medicine to make them see Rev. 3. 18. App'es and Flaggons to keep them from sounding Balme and Physitians from Gilead Gold tried in the fire to make them rich garments of needlework and wrought gold with jewels to adorn them white rayment to make them pure the white stone with the new name written in it that none can read but they that have it to secure their interest Rev. 2. 17. with others of the like nature which are spoken to the capacity of other men but what the inward efficacy and glory of these things is is only rightly and really known to such as have them by this inward work of God upon mens Souls a truly glorious change is wrought in them of Bond-slaves under Sin and children of Satan they are made free indeed and the children of Abraham yea the Image of God is restored in them and they are partakers of the Divine nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. Their Souls are made Temples of the holy One where God the Father vouchsafes his presence Christ holds his Soveraignty and the Holy Ghost his Residence and hereby they have Communion with the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost by which means great discoveries great consolations and great security unto such poor Souls upon all good occasions from time to time are happily administred untill from strength to strength in grace here they be by the Almighty power and grace of God their heavenly Father brought into possession of the fulness of glory with himself in the highest heavens there with all the Celestial Angels and perfected Saints sing forth their Halelujahs to the eternall praise of his infinitely great and glorious name But Secondly we have seen it hath been the design of God by Gospel grace
shining forth of Gods most free and infinite grace unto men and Angels here and hereafter which as our Saviours expression is to all single-eyed beholders is obvious to be discerned yea there is no part of the foundation or fabrick of the whole work wherein it doth not wonderfully shine out to such soules in their better temper at least which if it do not unto any at least when they are themselves it is because they are not as in the Text transformed into the same Image if the glory shining in the work of the Creation when that was finished was the reason then wherefore the Lord blessed the seaventh Day Sabbath and hallowed it that his people might have a weekly opportunity to worship and celebrate his praise for the innumerable benefits conferred on them by Creation then how much more may the glory shining much more brightly when Christ Jesus our Lord having finished the whole work of redemption by his resurrection gloriously triumphed over all adverse powers of darkness occasion him the Lord of the Sabbath to put it over to the first day and is justly therefore by his holy spirit intitled to himself the Lords day our Christian Sabbath Rev. 1. 10. even when in the highest raptures he communicated so divinely to that beloved Disciple the great things to be accomplished in reference to the Church and her enemies to the end of the world now as the perfected glory of the Saints hereafter shall swallow up the inchoate glory here or as the glory of the Lord our redeemer seems to ecclypse the lustre of the glory of the Lord our Creator as the shining light of the sun doth the brightness of the Moon when they appear both together in our hemisphere even so is the glorious forme and beauty of this work transcendently above the other Fifthly The largeness of the time or continuance allotted for this work above all the other excellent illustrations of it First Creatio fit in instanti so the Learned Creation is done in an instant the whole work was finished and celebrated in a weeks space at first sustentation is the continuance of that for a limited time and Gubernation here is but while this course of nature or Creatures or rather supportation in their rankes from God is so variously disposed of in such wonderful manner after the good pleasure of his will but the time allotted for the contriving effecting applying confirming carrying on and perfecting this most glorious work of Gospel grace is not only a long time but all time and not only time but eternity too yea all eternity in reference to the eternal and coequal Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine nature Now this illustration of the length of time for raysing a work may more clearly appear from a threefold evidence First of nature the baser sort of creatures soon come to their height of stature as is observable in varieties of sorts of plants and beasts and fowls Secondly in Reason the more excellent the nature of a work and the more accurately it is to be wrought the longer time is required to provide for it to accomplish it Thirdly in experience both of Nature Art by all which the long continuance for the raysing of this work may be manifest above all the rest which is an other of its excellencies unto which let us now adde the Sixt Namely in regard of the way and manner of the raysing of this work by the constant shining out of the wonderful glory of the Father Son and Holy ghost all the time it is in raysing Oh the unspeakeable splendor of the wisdome and power of the grace and goodness of the mercy and truth in reference to all the holy persons in that undivided Trinity made evident therein from the beginning of the world and shall be to the end thereof in such glorious mnnifestations continually breaking forth through all successions of Ages as can never be sufficiently admired nor much less celebrated with praises both from men and Angels in all things that concern the way and manner of the revealing exhibiting as will be of the perfecting of that most precious grace from and by those sacred persons derived Whether we respect the sufficiency the sureness the efficacy the happiness in such way and manner continually held out and communicated unto the world First sufficient to make up all the Creatures wants to answer all their doubts Secondly Sure to remove all their fears settle all desirable security to them Thirdly Effectually to carry on against all obstacles and to accomplish all and more then they could hope for or desire Fourthly To administer what ever good they are capable of receiving to make them perfectly blessed let your thoughts be inlarged upon these particulars I must leave them as the dry bones in Ezekiels Prophesie till the Spirit causeth flesh to come upon them to cover them for I feare to be tedious even in a subject so precious and pleasant to such as have interest in it but therefore not pleasant unto others because they find not any to themselves yea they know it not and therefore they desire it not yea they are not willing to know it least they must loose those Idols wherein they take more pleasure But thus much at presenâ— of Gods own undertaking in the most sutable manner to all his own most blessed purposes respecting both himself and his creatures according to his own good pleasure as we shall indeavour afterwards to shew and is evident from all passages to this purpose in holy writ unspeakeably above what is to be found in any other his great and glorious works here being a way for the magnifying of the riches of his free grace only revealed in his word which is therefore magnifyed above all his name as the Psalmist saith remarkably Ps 138. in such a concurrence of all Divine excellencies as is no where else to be found since there and there only we have the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. 6. Seaventhly In regard of the subordinate meanes of raising up this work not here to speak of the chief the holy Spirit as proceeding from the Father and the Son for we shall have occasion to speak of him afterwards as the Lord the Spirit the prime efficient cause of the efficaciousness of all other meanes but only of his inferior means such as Angels men extraordinarily inspired ordinarily qualified ordinances sanctified and providences and many other means oâ— Creatures sometime at his pleasure blessed to be in some sort instrumental in this work For sometimes to use Angels in it was an honour to it but to have used them alwayes would have been terrible to weak and fraile Creatures besides otherwise incommodious to them when as to use mans ministry is natural familiar affecting as being of the same nature and lyable to the same miserie capable of the same happiness
to glorifie himself c. So let us now consider that he hath been is and will be more glorious in the eyes of all his people by this Gospel grace then by any other or all other his glorious works besides whereby he hath any wayes discovered his glory in the world Now that we may at least represent some glimpse of this spiritual glory in some measure sutable to what it is unto mens Souls we shall by the gracious assistance of God indeavour to tender it in this ensuing method First to offer some considerations of the glorious works of God in Creation Sustentation and Gubernation of all things in the world Secondly to tender some representations of the more glorious works of his Gospel grace displayed in his Church in the world Thirdly to shew some respective considerations wherein this work is more glorious then any yea then all the other First God hath by all the three former great and glorious works preached unto lost mankind how great and how good and how powerfull he is as Ps 19. 1 2 3. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work Day unto day uttereth speech night unto night sheweth knowledge There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard And though that his preaching to them hath been very clear loud and constant yet usually they have lent either a deaf or a negligent ear thereunto they would either not heare or not regard it Concerning the first of Creation the Apostle Paul gives us a clear evidence Ro. 1. 20. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead so that they viz. the Gentiles are without excuse That his power was infinite the nature of the work doth shew since only an infinite power can create that is make something any thing all things out of nothing that he could make them without pains labour or trouble and that he could with the same facility make multitudes of worlds if he pleased as well as one That his Wisdom was wonderful therein was manifest in the manner order and quality of the work so to command creatures to be so successively in their order to supply in their uses the wants of each other so to dispose of their nature qualities properties uses as in Storehouses to Treasure up all their several vertues and benefits and yet so as to have them communicable for all their several due intendments and purposes and yet this work so vast so various yea not only in the want of order in things before but in want of being of things to be ordered doth abundantly publish the wisdome of the maker and disposer of them His goodness in that work is as largely evident for they were not only good as God first made them and his word witnessed of them but even he filled as the Psalmist saith with his goodness every living thing and to make them in their several courses as so many conduit pipes of goodness to all sorts of creatures in the world and by all these wayes and in what ever respect else the world was capable to have discovered his wonderful glory unto it in a work of Creation Now Secondly for the work of Sustentation whereof the Apostle Heb. 1. 3. declares he upholds all things by the word of his power that is in him no less great no less wonderful and glorious then the other All Creatures had no more power to preserve themselves of others in the State God hath made them or preserved them then they had to make themselves at first or one another did not he as well communicate a support to them in their Being comforte operations continually as well as at their first subsistance Creatures may by his order adde an accidental form to Gods matter but God by his glorious work of Sustentation by the same efficatiousness wherewith at first he made all Creatures in their kinds keeps all both their matter and essential forms together to which purpose the Apostle in that excellent discourse of his Acts. 17. 24. of all these temporal works of God brings in this forcible reason ver 28. in some sort acknowledged by very heathens in him we live and move and have our being If God should but withhold his powerful sustentation from any or all Creatures in the world they would suddenly be resolved into their first nothing For what is the order or course or strength of nature in all sorts of Creatures but what God first assigned to them and ever since at his pleasure preserveth in them but altereth when he pleaseth the Soul must needs guide and act the body as God appointeth it while it stayes therein because a natural agent but God as a free and voluntary agent can withdraw his support and actings from the Creatures or stop them as he pleaseth But now to consider that in an ordinary way of support God hath held up the whole Creation for now allmost 6000. years in the whole and all the main substantial parts of it and that in so strangly different manners and wayes The great Ball of the Earth to our understanding hangs upon nothing poysed with its own weight the Psalmist tells us that God hath founded it upon the floods Ps 24. 2. Yea but the waters and the earth are two heavy bodies that now make up one Globe and there is nothing contiguous to them but the thin adflitting penetrable ayre wherewith they are incompassed round about and yet this Globe stands so firmly that it cannot be moved Psal 93. 1. 96. 10. In both which places the Holy Spirit would have men know from this that God raigneth yet the principles moveable the parts moveable all things in it and upon it continual changeable and moveable and have been for so many thousand years and yet the foundation remains immoveable not of its own nature but at the pleasure of him that upholds it and that after all the transactings concussions successions intercourses and changings upon the earth since the first Creation of it yet those foundations are never the more shaking never the more tottering worne or decayed yet all this time the upper part of this world the material heavens are upheld in a contrary course in a strange unconceiveable seemingly violent circumvolution and turning about wonderfully continued even for the preservation use and benefit of all sorts of Creatures in the inferior Orbe which I can now only hint at being not my direct business in hand yet those heavens are as much unworn with their motion though so quick so constant so fracil as much unwearied or unweakned with their work and influence so great so efficarious so long continued as much undecayed in their beauty in their glory in their as primarie excellencie though they have been as long invected with it So that by this little touch of this matter we may see
Christ shews wonders among the dead as himselfe so strongly asserteth Joh 5. 25. Verily verily I say unto you the houre is coming and now is that the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and they that heare shall live Hereby Christ gaines a soveraigntie above all that is called God as the Father promised Psal 2. 8. He hath the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession neither can he be deprived of his Subjects the gates of Hell shall not prevaile against them no not of the weakest by the strongest none shall be able to pull any one sheep from his fold for hereby the soul of a converted sinner is inseparably united unto him By this Gospel grace the taste and discerning of divine and spiritual things is made truly cordial and comfortable unto believing souls Hereby God is set up in the highest place in the soul in all he reveals himselfe to be Hereby he is sought unto for all acknowledged in all what ever means or instruments he useth believed in all he saith honoured in all he doth in prosperitie or adversitie in particular or in general to themselves or others praise returned unto him for all mercies how or what way so ever conferred feared above all rejoyced in and delighted in above all that can be conceived of creatures incomparably This makes them measure all Glory by Gods Standard and weigh all comfort in Gods Ballance and try all treasure by Gods Touchstone and none of these will be approved by them but what hath his allowance Hereby God overcomes darknesse with light corruption with sanctification trouble with comfort disquiet with peace sorrow with joy opposition with support weaknesse with strength assaults with victory danger with securitie sufferings with rescue death with life and this not only once but often not sometime only but at all times not in some respects only but in all not against some evills only but against all not for some continuance only but unto the end for though every way many be the troubles of the righteous yet the Lord delivereth them out of them all Psal 34. 19. And all this grace in all the varietie of the glorious manifestations thereof is in the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ Chap 4. ver 4. And in the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ v 6. And now in the third place for the further illustration of this greatest glory of the Lord manifest to his Church in this world let us come to those respective considerations wherein it will be yet more evident that this Gospel glory is the greatest glory of all that in the world God hath or doth or will manifest yea or any living in it can behold Now for manifestation of the many more glorious excellencies of Gospel grace above all the other glorious works of the most blessed God wherein he hath discovered his wonderfull excellencies in and for his true Church upon earth as revealed carried on to be accomplished here and fully perfected in heaven We shall further endeavour by his most gracious assistance to display the transcendent glory of this work above all the other in these ensuing particulars First In respect of the more glorious nature of the work Secondly In respect of the more glorious matter of the work Thirdly In respect of the many wayes considerably more excellent foundation of the work Fourthly In respect of the most glorious structure forme and frame of the work Fifthly In regard of the long continued time for the raising of the work Sixthly In regard of the way of the raising of this work by the constant shining out of the wonderfull glory of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost all the time it is in raising Seventhly In respect of the subordinate means of raising up this work Eighthly In respect of the object for which and in reference to whom it is immediately contrived and raised Ninthly In regard of the ends wherefore it is contrived carried on raised and to be perfected in reference both to God and Man Tenthly In respect of the many excellent uses to be made by all men here of the contriving carrying on and raising of this work and what will be made of it by glorified Saints and Angells hereafter in heaven Eleventhly In respect of the effect of all that concerns the manifestation of all the gloriousnesse of this work to good and bad men and Angells here and hereafter And if the Lord the Spirit shall be graciously pleased to carry us along in any competent manner but to hint or point out unto any Arts of men the manifold transcendent glory of this Gospel glory of the Lord I hope some men by his blessing may have the transforming glory thereof if not altogether wrought yet in some measure increased in them by the same Spirit by whose guidance as we endeavour to doe it so we shall endeavour to pray unto him for it First therefore of the first viz. the respective consideration of the more glorious nature of the work above the nature of the works of Creation Sustentation and Gubernation or Providence which though they be the Works of the All-glorious God in their kinde and degree suitable to the Author yet is this more excellent worke of his in its own nature eminently many wayes much more glorious and particularly in these Considerations following First In that the Creation Sustentation Gubernation of the world are of corruptible principles and materialls in continuall transmutations and changes generations and irruptions increases and decreases all in successions nothing in continuance or stability excepting Angells and the souls of men which though they be in the world yet they are not of the world as Christ said his Kingdome was not of which in great part they are but the great work of Gospel grace is of a spiritual and incorruptible nature suitable to the Author of it and as the nature of a thing is neerer to him the more perfect it is Secondly All the former great works of God respect inferiour creatures and the outward beeing and well-fare of man and directly reach no further but this respects the inward and spiritual well-fare of man and tends directly to the advancing of that now as the use and improvement of a thing is more excellent and glorious much more is that which is the cause of it Thirdly As the first works consisted of corruptible principles so their continuance and use will be but for a time and shall have their periods and cessations but this divine Gospel grace is of an eternall being and will remaine in its use and excellency to all eternitie Secondly And as in respect of the nature of the work so this Gospel grace is more glorious than all the other in respect of the matter of the work Base and mean materialls doe obscure and not illustrate the glory of a work Who can bring a
to Jerulem to see Peter Athanasius saith that he went for reverence that he bare to Peters age so it seemeth Peter was gray headed when Paul was but young and about twenty five years after Paul Phil. 9. writeth to Philemon though I be as I am even Paul an old man then what was Peter at these years yet liveth Paul after this 10 years and then writeth of himself that the time of his dissolution 2 Tim. 4. 6. was at hand Paul had now finished even 2 Tim. 4. 6. his natural course a very probable conjecture that he out-lived Peter †Conficta historia Possenius Apparat. Livius Egysip lib. c. 2. But this other untruth that we speak of is above all conjecture shameless and unreasonable they say that Peter the night before he should suffer fled away and as he was going Christ met him whom when he had seen Peter said unto him Domine quo vadis Master whither goest thou then Christ made answer Roman iterum crucifigi to Rome that I may be * St. Peter was martyred the Scriptures prove but that he was crucified or that he died at Rome cannot be proved Acts 3. 22. Josephus remembring such as were slain by Nero doth not mention Peters death Bellarmine objecteth Acts 9. 3 4. Sol. Acts 7. 55. 56. Aug. in Ps 54. Caput in coelis clamabat pro corpore interris crucified again then Peter perceived that Christ spake of him and so he returned and was crucified As if Peter himself had never taught us that the heavens must contain and keep Christ untill the time that all things be restored which shall not be accomplished untill the last day and thus endeth the Fable of Peters Bishoprick in Rome Hanc scilicet fallaciam scripturarum neglectus in Christianissimum hodie de Antichristo intrusit Vlricus Velenus Minhoniensis Quid si Episcopus si Deaconus si Vidua si Virgo si Doctor si etiam Martyr lapsus a regula fuerit ideo Haereses veritatem videbuntur obtinere Ex personis probamus fidem an ex side personas Tertullian de prescript Heretic Si qua est Ecclesia quae fidem respuat nec Apostolicae praedicationis fundamentae possideat ne quam labem possit aspergere deserenda est Ambr. lib 6. in Luc. cap. 9. FINIS THE CONTENTS FIrst The Coherence of the words Secondly The Exposition of the Text. Foure Doctrines from them Another from the Introduction which is first handled which is first proved Secondly Illustrated by eight particulars from the former Chapter and six more added Thirdly Applyed to three or foure uses The first poynt observed from the Text Gospel Glory the greatest Glory in the World Illustrated and proved First By Texts of Scripture many wayes Secondly Demonstrated under five Heads First That it was Gods great designe to glorifie himselfe in this worke above all others Secondly Accordingly his glory doth shine out and ever will doe more in this then any or all others Thirdly In that it is the only way for Gods people to obtaine true and perfect glory and whereby grace and glory are both gracious and glorious in their eyes Fourthly In that grace and glory differ not in nature but only in degrees Fifthly That hence will be the chiefe ground of the Saints and Angels glorifying God for ever The first of these considered first Historically secondly Spiritually in many particulars The second compared with the great workes of Creation Sustentation and Gubernation of all things in the world Secondly Briefly hinted at in many particulars in the nature use and effects thereof Thirdly By eleven respective considerations wherein it excells all the former workes of God First In respect of the many wayes considerable foundation of this worke in foure particulars First More profound Secondly More Secret Thirdly More difficult Fourthly More Sure Secondly In respect of the nature of this glorious worke Thirdly The matter of it Fourthly The forme of it Fifthly The way and manner of effecting it Sixthly The time for the raysing and perfecting of it in a three-fold disparitie Seventhly The subordinate meanes for the publishing promoting carrying on to the perfecting of this great worke viz. Angels Men ordinarily qualified with eminent gifts extraordinarily called imployed followed with successe Eighthly The immediate object of it Man in his state of defection How freely wonderfully gloriously delivered Ninthly The severall ends in respect of God and Man Angels good and bad here and hereafter Tenthly Vses for them both good and bad here and hereafter Eleventhly The Effects manifold hinted at exceeding excellent above all other but to be applyed profitably by Christians AN APPENDIX TO The Former By Mr. H. Nelson B. D. Pregnant Testimonies out of the ancient Fathers to prove that Peter was the Apostle of the Jewes and Paul of the Gentiles as also that Peter was not Primate Nisi Petrus alios Apostolos vel per so vel per alios Episcopos ordinasset nulla ratio est cur Romam Ecclesiarum Matrem esse dicamus Bell lib. 1. de Rom. Pontif c. 23. in Authority or Head over his fellow Apostles or did consecrate any of them to be Bishop or settle and stablish any state Hierarchicall at Rome ORigen in Math. Tract 4. Peter and Paul gave right hand of fellowship the one to the other that Peter should go to the circumcision to preach unto the Jewes living under the Law as unto an Asse under the yoke but Paul should go to the Gentiles as unto a Colt that had never been broken Idem in Matth 16. Tract 1. Noveram ergo non matrem esse ex his testibus clarisime constat Aug in Epist ad Gal lib they agreed that Paul and Barnabas should go to the Gentiles and themselves James Peter and John unto the Circumcision who seemed contrary unto the Gentiles Idem in Ps 108. Tract 50 in Jo 12. et 124. De agone Christiano c. 30. Jerome Epist ad Gal c. 2. The Primacy of Peter cannot stand unlesse the Ordinance of the Holy Ghost and the apponent between him and St. Paul be violated One God hath committed unto me the Preaching of the Gospel among the Gentiles and to Peter among the Jewes he sent me unto the Gentiles and placed Peter in Jewry by Gods providence one Apostle is given to the Jewes another to the Gentiles Idem lib. 1. contra Jovinianum Chrys Ibid. one thing pleased them both Peter and his side should preach to the Jewes and Paul and Barnabas to the Heathens And after speaking in the name of Paul in the office of preaching we have divided the world between our selves Ambrose Ibid. Paul saith the grace which he had received of God was allowed of them that he might be thought worthy to have primacy in preaching among the Gentiles as Peter had in preaching among the Jews Anselm Ibid. These two principal Apostles were chosen to the salvation of two peoples Peter to the salvation of the Jews and Paul of