ple, and be more populous than other Cities. But the Prophet ſeemeth rather to interpret that Prophetie, than meerly to ailude to it 3 ſo that Verſe is one of thoſe Prophetical Paſſages about the | calling of the Gentiles, (of which are many in that Prophet.) In this ſenſe, the Gentzles are to be underſtood under the notion of the Woman that was barren and deſolate. The Church of the Fews isre- preſented under the notion of a Woman that had an Husband and Children. The Prophet, by the Spirit of Propheſie, calleth upon the Geziles, that brought forth no Children to God, and to hom God was not an Husband, to Rejoyce, and to cry our for Foy, forthere ſhould be more Believers, more Children brought forth to Gag, among, them, than were among the Fews:; So as the Church of the Gentiles are compared to Sarah, who was a long time barren, but then brought forth the Child of the Promiſe, the Seed inwhich all the Nations of the Earth were to be bleſſed.
28 Now we, brethren, as Iſaac was, are the chil- dren of promiſe e.
c 1ſaac was the promiſed Seed, Gen. 21. 12. Rom. g. 9. the Apo- ſtle tells the Galatians that the believing Gentiles were (as [(uxc) the Children of the promiſe. Iſazc being both, not by virtue of any pive creative virtue in his Parents, which was now dead in them, Fin. 4 19. but by virtue of the promiſe, and by a power above nature, was a Type of the believing Gentiles, who are a Spiritual Secd, and that Zeed to whom the promiſe was made, being Members of Chriſt by Faith ; So as the Fews had no reaſon ſo much to glory as they did, that Abrabam was their Father, for thoſe amongft them that believed not, were but this carnal Seed, believers only were the Spiritual Seed, the Children of the Promiſe : To which the believing Gentiles had the ſame claim with the believing F-ws, anda much better than thoſe of them that believed not in Chrift.
29 Bur as then he that was born after the feſh 4, perſecuted him that was born after the ſpirit e, wen 0 it 15 NOW f.
d As it was in Abraham's time, Jhmazl, who was horn ina meer carnal and ordinary way of Generation : e Perſecuted 1/zac,by mock- ing at him, Gey. 21. 9g, Who was born by virtue of the promile, and the mighty power of God, inabling Sarah at thoſe years £0 conceive, and Abraham to beget a Child. f Even ſo it isnow, the carnal Seed of Abraham, the Fews perſecute the Chriſtians which are his Spiritual Seed, From whence we may obſerve, that the Holy Ghoſt accounteth mockings of good people for Religion, Perſccutt- on. SO Heb. 11,36. others had tryals of cruel mockin:gs, and we know theſe were one kind of the ſufferings of Chriſt. By this allo the Apoſtle doth both confirm what he had before ſaid, in making Hagar a Type of the Fews, and Saraha Type of the Gentiles, the Fews perſecuting the ſeed of Chrift, as Zagzrs ſeed perſecuted /{z-
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þ The Church of rhe Gentil-s, was not Typitizd In Hagar, but in S115 from whence the ſcop? or the Apottlc 15 tO conclude, that w2 are not under the Law oblizec to Fu aic! Objervances, but ire freed from them, and are juſtified by Faith in Chriſt alone, not by the works of the Law. By this conclution, the Apoſtle makzeth way for the Exhortation in the following Chapter, prel- fins them to ſtand fall in their liberty.
Gt AFP. 1h extorterh them 10 maintain their Chriſtian Liberty, elſe will Chris he to them of none effe1 z, and we can only by the Righteouſneſs of faith
kope for Heaven 3” and nothing but faith working by love avails 10
acceptance with God, 1 —-- 6. He tenderly expoſtulates withthem, 12. He exborteth them not to uſ2 their Liberty to Licentiouſ- reſs or Contention, but to Love and Holineſs, 13 ——— 15. He de- (ribeth the contrary works of the Fl:ſv and Spirit, that they may mor=-
tiſie the Fleſh and walk in the Spirit, 16 -—-— 26. 5:21 CYTand faſt therefore in * the liberty wherewith 16.49 Chriſt hath made us free 4, and be not iutangled
again with the yoke of bondage 6. |