19 Bur I ſay, || Did not Ifrael know « ? Firſt, Moſes | 0, ſaith , I will provoke you to Jealouſie by them that mt 1 are no people, and by a fooliſh nation I will ance;
And this he proves, becauſe the Means to attain Salvation by the true Invocation of God, hath been made common ro All; and conſequently Faith; and ſo from time to time, the hearing and preaching the Word of God, according as the one is occaſioned by the other. Others make this the Coherence, ſeeing the Righteouſneſs of Faith is the only true Righteouſneſs, and doth, in common, - by the Promiſe of Goa, belong to Jew and GentiYe (as hath been ſaid) It was therefore neceſſary, that ſome muſt be ſent of God to both People, which 15 the ordinary way and means to beger Faith, and to bring Men to Chriſ?. Bis way of Arguing is ſuch, as Logic:ians call Sorites, Rhetoricians a Gradation; and *tis very Forcible and Demonſtrative. g 4. God hath, by his Prophets, promiſed Salvation indifferently to Jew and Gentile. But without calling oh Him, there is no Salva- z7:0u; and withour Faith, there is no Prayer; and withour Hearing, there 15 no Faith; and without a Preacher, there is no Hearing ; and without ſolemn Miſſion, there can be no Preacher. His manner of ſpeaking all along, is by way of Interrogation, which is the more Convincing; becauſe it carries in it, a kind of an Appeal to the Perſons ſpoken to. Every Interrogation is Equivalent to a Ne- vation. k There 15 no Foundation then for the Popiſh Do&rine of invocating Saints and Argels. 1 Amongſt the Elet# of God there may be ſome that are bora Dea*; and in theſe, God doth ſupply the want of outward Means, in an extraordinary way : But ordi- narily, Hearing 1s as necellary to Fairh , as Faith is to Prayer, or Prayer to Salvation.
15 And how ſhall they preach, except they be ſent m-? as it is written, * How beautiful are the feer of then) z that preach che goſpel of peace, and bring glad ridings
of good things.
» Viz, Immediately by God or Chriſ?, or the Prophets, and the Apoſtles, wid. Gal. 1. 1. Or mediately by Men, z. e. By ſuch as have Authority gom Chr:/# to Separate and Ordain Others to this Work; without this orderly Mifſion or Ordination, How can they PP#ach, faith the Apoſtle ? 7. e. How can they do it Duely or Profitably, or in the Name, and by the Authority of Chriſt * For otherwiſe, there were, and ſtill are, thoſe that Run before they are ſent, Jer. 23.21. 2 Their Arrival or Approach. The Perſons of ſuch are meant, though their Feet be named, becauſe they car- ried them up and down to do this Ford. The Scripture reterred ro, is found in 1/2. 52. 7. The Apoſtle here leaveth rhe Sepruagint, and followeth the Hebrew Text: Yet he doth not Cite the Place in all Points as the Prophet hath it. He leaveth out ſome words, as (upon the Mountains) which had reſpe& to the Situation of Feruſa- lem ; 2nd he changeth the Number, turning the Singular into the Plural. Obj. But the Text in 1ſaiah ſpeaks of ſuch a Meſſenger as was ſent fro publiſh the Deliverance of the Jews from the Bondage of the 4//yrians. 4. Though that be granted, it 1s applyed and accommodated aptly enough to the Preaching of Peace and Salvua- tion by Chriſt; becauſe that Deliverance (as all other Temporal --: +a had its Foundation in the Redemption purchaſed by
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16 Bur they have not all obeyed the Goſpel » For Eſfaias faith, * Lord ho bath beli : k rad p, Wno nath believed four || Re-
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NU X, 4 Here he proves by three Teſtimonies out of the Old T:famn:, That the 7ews mult needs have heard the found of the Giſpel, toge- ther with the Gentiles; only they Reje&ed it, when the other Em- braced it. And fo he layeth the ground of what he was purpoled to handle in the following Chapter, concerning the receiving of the Gentiles, and the caſting of, and after calling of the Fews. « Hee ſomething muſt be ſupplied to make up the Sence ; either Gu, or the Goſpe/, or the Righteouſneſs of Fairh, or the conver(icn of the Gentiles : w The 1/rael:res could not well pretend Ignorance, Con- ſidering what Moſes and 1ſaizah had ſzid, in whom, or in whoſe Writings they were Converſant, wzz. in Deue. 33.21. Still he follows the Tranſlation of the Seventy. x Here God threateneth the 7:w:, That He wouJd puniſh chem with jealouſfe and anger, by prefering the Gentiles before them; ar the ſight whereof their Hearts ſhould be ſore vexed; - to bzhold all their Privileges raken from them, and given to a People whom they accounted moſt Vile and D:{pt- cable; ro be no People in regard of them; to be Dogs and Beaſts rather than Man, wid. A#s 13.45. Read the cited place in Deuter. apd you will find that God ſpeaks of this, as a fit Puniſhment up- on the Fews for their 1dolatry : They had choſen to themſel es ſuch as were no gods; and therefore, to requite them, God wo-!1d take to Him ſuch as were no Peaple : They had choſen to them{clves (4 it were) another Hwband ; and God, to be even with th:m, had choſen another :fe.
2 o Bur. Eſaias is very bold y, and faith z, I was
found [| of them that ſought me not 4, I was {|| made [
manifeſt unto chem rhar asked nor after me 5.
y 7. e. He ſpeaks more boldly concerning the calling of the |, Gentiles, and the caſting off the Jews. He uſed a hcly ceedom, ® though it coſt him dear. Hierome faith, he was fawn aſunder, with a wooden Saw. This is a commendable property in a Preacher, vid. AF. 4.13. and 28.31. 2 viz.in Eſay 65. x. The Apoſtle in this Citation differs in ſome words, both from the H:brew Text, + and the L X X. as may appear to him that will compre them t0- oerher. a Compare this with ch. 9. 30. nd i {6 | Totes here,
6 Compare this with £ph. 2. 2. the adveritage 4,4 advencement of
the Gentiles was altogether of jrce Gree, and an cet 69 3
free Ele#ion. : L 21 Bur to Iſrael he faith c, All day lang « 1 have
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ſtretched forth my hands e unto a diſc. cdient an gas ſaying people f. Ss