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Christ the universal peace-makerChrist the universall peace-maker
Christ the universal peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.Christ the universall peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodvvin, B.D.
London: printed by J.G. for R. Dawlman, 1651
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And no wonder of all this, for indeed they accounted all the Heathen as beasts made to be destroyed: (upon the mistake of their Commission concerning those seven Nations, 1given up by God the Judge of the World (in whose sovereignty it was,) into their hands.) Even Christ speaking in the common language of the Jews, calls the Syropheniciam Woman and all the Gentiles dogs, Mat. 15. 25, 26. as the Turks call Christians at this day; yea out of their own records some of the Rabbinical interpreters upon Deut. 21. 11. they have delivered, that they accounted them feris deteriores, worse then beasts, & nuptias eorum innuptas, their marriages, no marriages, and therefore nec homicidium nec adulterium in eos comity posse, that it was no adultery to abuse their Wives, no murder to kill any of them, no robbery to take from them, by never so much violence.2 Which Josephus Albo Justifies in his disputation adversus Christianos, giving this reason, that be that lived without their Law and worshipped false Gods, he was a common enemy, & in eum illicitum nihil, and nothing can be unlawful, that is done against him by them.
And no wonder of all this, for indeed they accounted all the Heathen as beasts made to be destroyed: (upon the mistake of their Commission concerning those seven Nations, 1given up by God the Judge of the World (in whose soveraignty it was,) into their hands.) Even Christ speaking in the common language of the Jewes, calls the Syropheniciam Woman and all the Gentiles doggs, Mat. 15. 25, 26. as the Turkes call Christians at this day; yea out of their own records some of the Rabbinicall interpreters upon Deut. 21. 11. they have delivered, that they accounted them feris deteriores, worse then beasts, & nuptias eorum innuptas, their marriages, no marriages, and therefore nec homicidium nec adulterium in eos committi posse, that it was no adultery to abuse their Wives, no murther to kill any of them, no robbery to take from them, by never so much violence.