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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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5. As they esteemed all other Nations as Dogs and Beasts: the Gentile doth the like by them, and reckons them but as Swine, the most contemptible of Beasts, and this in a witty retortion from the Jewish practices, Nec distare putant humana carne suillam. putting this interpretation upon their forbearance to eat swines flesh, that mankind and swine were alike to them.
5. As they esteemed all other Nations as Doggs and Beasts: the Gentile doth the like by them, and reckons them but as Swine, the most contemtible of Beasts, and this in a witty retortion from the Iewish practices, Nec distare putant humana carne suillam. putting this interpreation upon their forbearance to eate swines flesh, that mankind and swine were alike to them.
And 6. As they hated all Nations, so the Gentiles resented accordingly this Catholic spirit in the Jew against them all, which turned their hearts universally to hate them. ⟨p. 21⟩Ahasuerus had 127. Provinces, amongst which, the Jews (as we read) had enemies in them all. Est. 8. 9. and 9. 16. compared, whom the Kings Letters restrained with difficulty from falling on them in every Nation: And they accuse and arraign the Jews, 1. As hurtful to Kings and Provinces, Ezra 4. 15. as continually moving sedition, in the same place of Ezra 4. 15. They are a people that of old time have moved sedition. And the same aspersion went current among the Romans and Greeks many hundred years after: These men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our City, Acts 16. 20. say the Philippians to the Magistrates of the City. They lay their accusation that it was the genius of the Nation: it is their Known custom so to do. 2. As unsociable to the rest of mankind. 1Antiochus friends in Diodorus pleaded thus against the Jew: