DIAL. XX.
Verse 25, 26. For I would not Brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this Mystery (least ye should bee arrogant in your selues) that partly obstinacie is come to Israel, vntill the ful∣nesse of the Gentiles bee come in; and so all Israel shall bee sa∣ued.
HOw doth this Text agree with the former?
It hath the same drift, namely to keepe the beleeuing Gentiles, from despising the vnbeleeuing Iewes; touching whom, Paul hauing already taught that their conuersion to the faith of the Gospell is both pos∣sible and easie, such as may be & also easie enough: now he telleth vs, that their grafting in, and ioyning to the Christian Church, is not onely credible and probable, but that indeede it certainly shal bee (it beeing a thing which God will haue to be, and none can resist his will, for it is vnchangeable and omnipotent: and this he doth proue by sundry reasons, as first by an Apostolicall ora∣cle, or by his owne testimony, or rather by the testimony of God manifested to him, which is grauely set downe in verse 25. Secondly, by a propheticall authority, or by two Scriptures cited out of the Prophet Esay, verse 26, 27.