The vvorldes resurrection, or The generall calling of the Iewes A familiar commentary vpon the eleuenth chapter of Saint Paul to the Romaines, according to the sence of Scripture, and the consent of the most iudicious interpreters, wherein aboue fiftie notable questions are soundly answered, and the particular doctrines, reasons and vses of euery verse, are profitable and plainly deliuered. By Thomas Draxe. Minister of the word of God.

To prouoke them to follow them.

See heere and obserue the great wisedome and louing kindnesse of God towards his children,* 1.1 who by his fa∣uour shewed vnto others; and by substituting others in∣to their places, maketh them ashamed of their vnthank∣fulnesse, and laboureth to stirre vp in them a desire and purpose of reconcilement.* 1.2 Because (saith the Lord) they haue mooued mee to iealousie with that which is not God: they haue prouoked mee to anger with their vanities: I will moo••e them to iealousie with (those that are) no people:* 1.3 I will prouoke them to anger with a foolish nation. And herein God dealeth with them as a tender Father with his vnkinde or disobedient childe that will not come to him,* 1.4 hee taketh another sonne in his armes, or setteth him betweene his legges, embraceth, praiseth, and maketh much of him, hereby correcting the stub∣bernesse of his other sonne, and prouoking him to seeke for the like fauour and acceptance.

1. Vse. Hereby are condemned those that by their Ido∣latrie (as the Papists doe) or else with others, by their arrogancie, pride and contempt, alienate and deteine the Iewes from Christianity.

2. Vse. Secondly, let vs endeuour by our pure and sin∣cere seruing of God, by our holy zeale, by our godly life and iust dealing,* 1.5 to•• giue light vnto the Iewes, and at length to prouoke them to emulation, and so to winne them, that there may be vnder Christ the head, ••one fould, and one shepheard. Iohn. 10. v. 27.

3. Vse. Let vs, as we be waile their hardnesse of heart, & vile contempt of Christ and his Gospell: so dayly and heartily with that Elizaeus of our age, now in glory, pray for their conuersion, and with that reuerend Father say. O Lord Iesu,* 1.6 thou doest iustly reuenge the contempt of thy selfe, and this vnthankefull people is worthy whom thou shouldest most sharpely punish: But O Lord, remember thy couenant••, and regarde the afflicted for thy names sake: Also grant vnto vs, that are of all men most vnworthy,

whom notwithstanding thou hast counted worthy of thy merci••, that wee profiting in thy grace, may not bee instru∣ments of thy wrath against them, but that wee may rather by the knowledge of thy worde, and by the examples of an holy life, through the working of thy holy spirit, reduce them to the right way, that thou maiest once bee glorified for euer of all nations and people. Amen.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Doctr.
• * 1.2

  Deut. 32.
• * 1.3

  Ver. 21.
• * 1.4

  Rom. 10.19▪
• * 1.5

  Math. 5. ve. 16.
• * 1.6

  Maister Beza his praier for the Iewes.