Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…

23. Yet this was no repealing of the Law of Grace which had been made to all the world, nor was it an excommunicating or rejecting of all others, or a confining of Gods Grace and Church to him and his posterity alone; but only an exalting them above all others in these peculiar dignities and privileges. For at that time holy Shem was living, and long after, who in all likelihood was a King, and its like that the Posterity of him and Japheth were not all fallen away from God; and Melc•• zedek was such a King of Righteousness and Peace and Priest of the most high God as was a great type of Christ's own Heavenly Priesthood; and therefore it's like had some Subjects that feared and worshipped God The Scripture giving us the History of the Jewish Nation, and affairs •• the principal, and of the rest of the world but a little on the by, we cannot know by it the full state of all other Nations, nor what Religion ⟨p. 33⟩and Worshippers of God were there. But the History of Job and his Friends, the probability that all the Children of Ismael, of Keturah, of Esau, forsook not God (for they were circumcised and therefore were Covenanters) with the Case of Nineveh after; and Abraham's thoughts that even a Sodom had at least had fifty righteous persons in it, &c. assureth us that the Jews were not God's only Church, but a peculiar people, and a Nation holy above the rest. And as the Covenant of Grace was still the Governing Law to the rest of the world, (though most rejected it by rebellion) so it is not to be thought that none consented to it and were faithful.

23. Yet this was no repealing of the Law of Grace which had been made to all the world, nor was it an excommunicating or rejecting of all others, or a confining of Gods Grace and Church to him and his posterity alone; but only an exalting them above all others in these peculiar dignities and priviledges. For at that time holy Sem was living, and long after, who in all likelyhood was a King, and its like that the Posterity of him and Japhet were not all faln away from God; and Melc•• zedek was such a King of Righteousness and Peace and Priest of the most high God as was a great type of Christ's own Heavenly Priesthood; and therefore it's like had some Subjects that feared and worshipped God The Scripture giving us the History of the Jewish Nation, and affairs the principal, and of the rest of the world but a little on the by, we cannot know by it the full state of all other Nations, nor what Religion