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In matters of ceremonies and iudicials they had moe particular rules prescribed* 1.1 vnto them, and a more certaine direction. For we haue very litle in these matters par∣ticularly written in the new testament: but the morall lawe we haue as perfect as they had, and in the law of faith, which is the law of the Gospell and the rule of salua∣tion, we do farre exceede them. Other meaning than this there cannot (with all the violence that you haue) be wrong out of my words.
Your places alleadged out of the Prophete Ieremy and Esay improue nothing that I haue spoken, for the Prophet Ieremy speaketh of the elect of God, whome he* 1.2 doth teach and illuminate not only with the outward preaching of his word, but by the maruellous operation of his spirit also. The words of the Prophet Esay (if you* 1.3 meane the 7. ver. of the. 56. Chap. for else ther is no such words there) do signify that God will gather the Gentiles and straungers into his Church, and make no distinc∣tion betwixt them and the Iewes in the time of the Gospell: but how you shoulde gather of that place that the people should be as learned as the Priests and Leuites, I can∣not coniecture. Neither truly do I know to what purpose this texte is alleadged, ex∣cept it be alittle by the way, to flatter the people and to claw them.
Wherein the Jewes had a more certaine direction than we.
Ierem. 3.
Esay. 56.