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The Jews had not yet the pledge that is given us in our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore it was needful that they should be uphold in good hope, till he were showed to the world. Wherefore not without cause were all those things cast down by his coming: for he is now unto us as the day sonne of righteousness. And therefore it is no reason that we should •ee led any more as it were by dark shadows. For by that means the enmity is done away, because that at this day we be joined too that linage which God had dedicated too himself, and there is no more diversity at all. Forasmuch then as we be made the children of Abraham by faith, there is but one spiritual ki•red among us.

The Iewes had not yit the pledge that is giuen vs in our Lord Iesus Christ, and therefore it was needefull that they should bee vphild in good hope, till he were shewed to the world. Wherefore not without cause were all those things cast downe by his comming: for he is now vntoo vs as the day sonne of rightuousnesse. And therefore it is no reason that wee should •ee led any more as it were by darke shaddowes. For by that meanes the emnitie is done away, bycause that at this day we bee ioyned too that linage which God had dedicated too himself, and there is no more diuersitie at all. Forasmuch then as wee bee made the children of Abraham by fayth, there is but one spirituall ki•red among vs.

But let us mark that Baptism, and the Lords Supper (which are the Sacraments that Christ hath ordained) are not a division like too the figures of the law. For although we be separated from the unbelee•••s, and from such as never came yet within in Gods Church: yet is there not any one certain nation of the world, which […] accepteth peculiarly by it self, but he will have his grace spread […] over all. There is not then any such distinction as there was before, that it can be said, we come of the linage of Abraham, we be they whom God vouchsafed too adopt. None can say so: for there is now neither Jew nor Gentle any more, as it is said in many places of the scripture. Therefore whosoever calleth upon Gods name purely, of what nation so ever he be, the same is well liked and accepted of him, as sayeth S. Peter in the sixteenth of the Acts, and also in his first Epistle. And Baptism and the Lords Supper serve now a days too unite the whole world. For let the barbarousest sort that can be, come, and God will receive them: Baptism shall be ministered unto them, because it belongeth to all such as are knit together into the body of the only son of God.