I answer, Yes; For the Covenant that God made with Abraham, was to be heir of the world, as well as heir of Canaan; so Rom. 14. 13. And accordingly in other things the Analogy holds for them with these here: For as these, so the Saints, they are called Strangers and Pilgrims, scattered and dispersed in all Nations; So Peter speaks of them; even as here he calls these strangers, ver. 12. when they were but few in number, and strangers in the land, as the Saints in the world. To give parallel places of Scripture, to strengthen this. In the Old Testament. In the forty fifth Psalm, you have a Prophecy of the Church of the New Testament, under the type of Solomon, taking Pharaohs daughter, who was a Gentile, into his bed, as Christ, of whom he was the Type, one day should do the Gentiles: which Church is made that great mother that shall have such multitudes of children, Gal. 4. Now of those children, of the Church of the New Testament as the Mother, and of Christ as the Father, the 16. verse of that Psalm thus speaks, Instead of THY FATHERS shall be THY CHILDREN, whom thou mayst make Princes in all the earth. The meaning whereof is this, that in the stead of these great Patriarchs, and other the Fathers of the Jews, (spoken of in the Text) shall succeed others, the children ⟨p. 5⟩of the New Testament, even all the Saints, as Successors of them; and as they were as Princes in all Lands they came into, here, so shall thy children be, says the Psalmist there. And the 7. verse of that Psalm calls them anointed, and so speaks also in the language of the Text, when under that notion he commands not to touch them; That verse speaking of Christ, saith, He is ANOINTED with the oil of gladness above his FELLOWS: namely, these his fellows and children, spoken of ver. 16. you have at once, as the great anointed one, Christ, so all his children called anointed ones also: and as they are his fellows, so anointed too. Thus you have all meet: Abraham and the Fathers, the anointed ones of the Old Testament, Christ and his Saints the anointed ones in the New, in their stead; and both Princes and Strangers in all Lands; and so of the one as well as the other this charge is here intended, Touch not mine anointed, &c. And to this accords the language of the New Testament, the whole mystical body is called Christ, 1 Cor. 12. 12.
I answer, Yes; For the Covenant that God made with Abraham, was to be heire of the world, as well as heire of Canaan; so Rom. 14. 13. And accordingly in other things the Analogie holds for them with these here: For as these, so the Saints, they are called Strangers and Pilgrims, scattered and dispersed in all Nations; So Peter speaks of them; even as here he calls these strangers, ver. 12. when they were but few in number, and strangers in the land, as the Saints in the world. To give parallel places of Scripture, to strengthen this. In the Old Testament. In the forty fift Psalme, you have a Prophesie of the Church of the New Testament, under the type of Solomon, taking Pharoahs daughter, who was a Gentile, into his bed, as Christ, of whom he was the Type, one day should doe the Gentiles: which Church is made that great mother that shall have such multitudes of children, Gal. 4. Now of those children, of the Church of the New Testament as the Mother, and of Christ as the Father, the 16. verse of that Psalme thus speaks, Instead of THY FATHERS shall be THY CHILDREN, whom thou mayst make Princes in all the earth. The meaning whereof is this, that in the stead of these great Patriarchs, and other the Fathers of the Jews, (spoken of in the Text) shall succeed others, the children ⟨p. 5⟩of the New Testament, even all the Saints, as Successors of them; and as they were as Princes in all Lands they came into, here, so shall thy children be, sayes the Psalmist there. And the 7. verse of that Psalme calls them anointed, and so speaks also in the language of the Text, when under that notion he commands not to touch them; That verse speaking of Christ, saith, He is ANOINTED with the oyle of gladnesse above his FELLOWES: namely, these his fellowes and children, spoken of ver. 16. you have at once, as the great anointed one, Christ, so all his children called anointed ones also: and as they are his fellowes, so anointed too. Thus you have all meet: Abraham and the Fathers, the anointed ones of the Old Testament, Christ and his Saints the anointed ones in the New, in their stead; and both Princes and Strangers in all Lands; and so of the one as well as the other this charge is here intended, Touch not mine anointed, &c. And to this accords the language of the New Testament, the whole mysticall body is called Christ, 1 Cor. 12. 12.
