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I. SECTION. 1 Head. The Greatness of that Enmity, which was between Jew and Gentile, until Christ purchased their Reconciliation.

I. SECTION. 1 Head. The Greatnes of that Enmity, which was between Jew and Gentile, untill Christ purchased their Reconciliation.

For the first, I have to present you out of this text, with an instance of the deepest, and most lasting enmity, between two sorts of men chosen to be one body unto God, that shared as then the whole world between them, (Jew and Gentile) that ever was or will be in all ages: which yet was compounded by Christ. View we it first in the general through those expressions the text useth of it. The Apostle sets it forth to us, not barely by terms of distance and division, calling them [Greek or Hebrew], Both or two, and [Greek or Hebrew], twain; nor simply of being enemies in an ordinary way, but speaks of an enmity in the abstract, [Greek or Hebrew]; a special enmity it was, not that which is common to man against man, (who as the Holy Ghost that knows our nature tells us, are mutually hateful to, and hating one another, Tit. 3. 1.) But a knotted, twisted, combined enmity. That the word [Greek or Hebrew] dissolved it, ver. 14. imports. A stirring active enmity, that lay not sleeping. This the word [Greek or Hebrew], ver. 15. implies: He made it inefficacious, took away the strength, the energy, the operative virtue of it: Yea and if you will take in, and borrow from the expression ver. 16. [Greek or Hebrew], He slew it. It was a living spritefull enmity, yea that had a rage in it, (we on the contrary call such an one deadly, because it aims at life:) The^* word bears up to this, non tam occidit quam trucidavit; Christ did not barely kill it, but bloodily with a rage, as provoked with the fierceness that was found in the enmity it self. For the rage thereof was cruel, and reached up to heaven, as the Scripture speaks.

FOr the first, I have to present you out of this text, with an instance of the deepest, and most lasting enmity, between two sorts of men chosen to be one body unto God, that shared as then the whole world between them, (Jew and Gentile) that ever was or will be in all ages: which yet was compounded by Christ. View we it first in the generall through those expressions the text useth of it. The Apostle sets it forth to us, not barely by tearms of distance and division, calling them , Both or two, and , twaine; nor simply of being enemies in an ordinary way, but speaks of an enmity in the abstract, ; a special enmity it was, not that which is common to man against man, (who as the Holy Ghost that knows our nature tells us, are mutually hatefull to, and hating one another,