1. Of God. God reveals more of himself unto his Church,1 ⟨p. 16⟩then he doth to all the nations upon the earth. In Judah is God known &c.2 They know more of his names and attributes then the rest of the world do, his name is great in Israel: his holiness, his justice, his mercy, his faithfulness, his omnipotence, his omnipresence, his omniscience &c. These he makes known to and in his Church, more then to any of, or all the nations in the world. God mentions it as an high favour unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; I appeared unto them, by the name of God Almighty: an higher favour, that he made himself known to his seed by the name Jehovah: 3God shines forth in his Church in the brightness and dearness of all his glorious attributes: and this is an high aggravation of Israels sin and Apostasy. Howbeit then when ye knew not God, ye did service to them which by nature are no Gods. 4But now after that ye have known God, how turn ye again? &c. This was a defection for which there could be no Apology made: for if the knowledge of God by the book of the creature, where Gods name is to be spelled out but by dark and broken Characters, be sufficient to leave the Gentiles [Greek or Hebrew] without Apology or excuse,5 how much more will that knowledge of God held forth so distinctly and fully in the Church, leave Israel without a word to speak for it self in the day of her Apostasy and revoltings from the Lord her God?
1. Of God. God reveals more of himself unto his Church,1 ⟨p. 16⟩then he doth to all the nations upon the earth. In Iudah is God known &c.2 They know more of his names and attributes then the rest of the world do, his name is great in Israel: his holyness, his justice, his mercy, his faithfulness, his omnipotence, his omnipresence, his omniscience &c. These he makes known to and in his Church, more then to any of, or all the nations in the world. God mentions it as an high favour unto Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob; I appeared unto them, by the name of God Almighty: an higher favour, that he made himself known to his seed by the name Iehovah: 3God shines forth in his Church in the brightness and deerness of all his glorious attributes: and this is an high aggravation of Israels sin and Apostacy. Howbeit then when ye knew not God, ye did service to them which by nature are no Gods. 4But now after that ye have known God, how turn ye again? &c. This was a defection for which there could be no Apology made: for if the knowledg of God by the book of the creature, where Gods name is to be spel'd out but by dark and broken Characters, be sufficient to leave the Gentiles 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 without Apology or excuse,5 how much more wil that knowledg of God held forth so distinctly and fully in the Church, leave Israel without a word to speak for it self in the day of her Apostacy and revoltings from the Lord her God?
- 1Israel knows more God.
- 2Psa, 76, 1, 2. His attributes.
- 3Exod, 6, 3.
- 4Gal, 4, 9.
- 5Rom, 1, 20,
