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A42584	Gell's remaines, or, Several select scriptures of the New Testament opened and explained wherein Jesus Christ, as yesterday, to day, and the same for ever, is illustrated, in sundry pious and learned notes and observations thereupon, in two volumes / by the learned and judicious Dr. Robert Gell ; collected and set in order by R. Bacon.	Gell, Robert, 1595-1665.; Bacon, Robert, b. 1611 or 12.	1676 (1676)	Wing G472; ESTC R17300	2,657,678	1,606

13. We must not be wise above the Law In odiosis in things odious as punishments the Letter is not to be exceeded but benignius interpretandum favores sunt ampliandi we find not any mention made at all of Father and Mother in that Law There is the same Relation brought in between God and the Church through Faith in Jesus Christ for ye are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus Gal. 3. Hence it is that the same Scripture that is spoken of Christ Jesus the Son of God is spoken also of the Church and Congregation of Believers Matth. 2.15 After the death of Herod the Lord admonished Joseph to come out of Aegypt and bring the Child Jesus thence That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet Out of Aegypt have I called my Son This is taken out of Hosea 11.1 When Israel was a Child I loved him and called my Son out of Aegypt My Son i. e. Israel for so he commands Moses to speak to Pharaoh Exod. 4.22 23. where it is observable that the punishment which the Lord first threatens he last executes Thus the Lord speaks to Jacob or Israel Isai 43.1 I have Created thee I have formed thee thou art mine and Isai 45.11 because he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one for this cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren Hebr. 2.11 If the Sons of God then none of our own 1 Cor. 6. ult and 7. The woman hath not power over her own body c. Is not he thy Father that begat thee Deut. 32. The Noble descent of Gods Children If we be his Sons then we interpret all what he doth good just wisely done The Father lops goodly trees he brings in grapes and bids his servants tread them this is Patris Imperium See Luk. 2.49 Here is a promise of Bonum Officii as Psal 81.9 Mich. 5.8.13 these seem to be threats but they are promises The Gospel Matth. 1. Isa 58.13 14. Check thy desires in these and thou shalt delight in the other These are all empty Contemplations unless they be brought home and centred in our selves The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the God and Father of us all by Adoption of Grace through Faith in Jesus Christ and we are all the Sons and Daughters of the Lord Almighty Exhort To demean and carry our selves worthy of our Father Adoption is not known in our Laws nor in use in this Kingdom but was frequent in the Roman Common-wealth in force here by the Civil Lawes in which our Apostle was very well seen According to it the Adopted Children were most observant of their Father by Adoption and Grace ingratiated themselves put on as much as they could the persons of their Fathers took their names upon them So observant was Augustus of Julius Caesar Tiberius of Augustus c. by whose bounty they obtained inheritance So observant ought we to be of our Adopting Father Estote imitatores Dei ut filii charissimi Eph. 5.1 See by what wayes the Saints of old became the Sons of God if ye call him Father who without respect of person c. in fear now love casts out this fear Jus reverentiale remitti non potest As obedient children not fashioning your selves unto your former lusts of your ignorance 1 Pet. 1.14 2 Cor. 6.14 Rom. 1.4 Rom. 8.14 led by his spirit Rev. 21.7 Phil. 2. Genuine Children will not endure their Father to be dishonoured they imitate their Father Ephes 5.1 God the Father judgeth all men without respect of persons Amos 9.7 Are ye not as the Children of the Aethiopians to me e. If the Lord said so to his own people the Jews might he not say so to us presume not of the means he now affords he can take them away and Surrogate and Adopt the Turks and Jews There is one at this day surely an extraordinary man who hath written to the Jews and Turks That by reason of the Christians Life unworthy of the Gospel the Lord is taking them to be his people We are too apt to pretend and alledge infirmities and weaknesses yet to lay hold on promises the Lord therefore in these words requires a Duty and makes a Promise both in one as Psal 81.1 Mich. 5.13 NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS UPON HEBREWS I. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And again when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world he saith And let all the Angels of God worship him THese words are the third Allegation or Proof of the Apostles Conclusion vers 4. whereby both parts of the conclusion are proved Christ's transcendent Superiority and the Angels due subordination and inferiority out of one and the same Scripture Psal 97.7 This third Quotation is to the like effect with the two former Observ 1. The Scriptures which speak of Christ's Dignity and Excellency are not few search the Scriptures Joh. 5.39 Observ 2. It is safe lawful necessary and by the Apostles own practice warrantable to make full and clear proof of the things which we teach and affirm concerning Christ No Divinity ought to be taken upon trust much less that which is taught concerning the person of our Saviour or the only true way of salvation which is our Apostles main scope in this Epistle Observ 3. That we should not affirm any thing concerning God Christ and the Holy Ghost by tradition from men but only such as we inwardly know by Divine Illumination and confirm by clear Testimony of Scripture Observ 4. Whereas Paul a man not unread or unlearned cites nothing but the Scriptures quotes none of the Heathen Poets or Philosophers no not any of the Rabbins or Hebrew Fathers in matters of Faith and fundamentals of Salvation We ought to produce better Testimony and Authority than the writings and sayings of men be they Humane or Ecclesiastical writers therefore the Papists do God and us yea themselves great wrong to obtrude Articles of Faith upon us by Humane Authority without Divine The third Allegation is extant word for word in the LXX Deut. 32.43 but it hath neither the Original Hebrew nor Vulgar Latin to confirm it though diverse of the Fathers see LXX Editionem the more unquestionable Authority is Psal 97.7 though there the Angels are spoken unto here they are spoken of The Psalm is to be understood of Christ In this judgement agree both Jews and Christians Ancient and Modern but whether of his coming in the flesh or coming to judgement here they differ In the words are these two points 1. God the Father brought or brings or shall bring his first begotten Son into the world 2. When he so brings him he commands all the Angels of God to worship him 1. God the Father brought c. For the clearing of this we must enquire 1. What world is here meant and 2. How the Father brought the Son into the world 1. What world are there any more than one We believe

the Ministers of the Spirit Observ 1. The antiquity of the Preachers office Noah was the eighth preacher There is no doubt but the office began with the first man as soon as he had Auditours who taught his Children the nature ways and works of God and the manner of worshipping and serving him Whence we read that Cain and Abel offered sacrifice he taught them also their duty towards one another and toward their Neighbours Ecclus 17.14 Attendite ab omni iniquo mandavit illis unicuique de proximo suo of which duty Cain was a forgetful hearer not only when he slew his brother but when he asked whether he were his brothers keeper as indeed he was But without doubt the office of publick preaching began about three hundred years after the Creation when Enosh began to preach in the name of the Lord and was the first Preacher as Noah was the eighth So that the office began not then when the people were terrified by the voice of God and desired that Moses might ever afterward speak unto them Exod. 20.19 Deut. 5.24 28. Howbeit then the Lord authorised the office of preaching and so well approved of the peoples motion that thereupon he promised them the great prophet and preacher the Lord Jesus Christ Deut. 18.18 Object 2. How truly the Lord Jesus Christ in the Spirit stiles himself α and ω the first and the last whoever comes before him into thy soul he is a thief and a robber Whatever is after him doth but begin again as whatsoever exceeds the eighth or Disdiapason was before in the Diapason He himself in the Spirit is the eighth the last so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the oyle or spirit Luk. 4. And he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the eighth The true David who is the eighth or last son of Jesse 1 Sam. 17. He comes in these last days Zach. 9.13.14 Observ 3. Hence appears the transcendent excellency and dignity of the Preachers office Noah the most excellent man in the world was by the Lord judged worthy of it and it of him Josephus saith that the house of Judab and the house of Levi the Kingly Tribe and the Priestly were wont to marry one with the other whence it is that Mary though of the Tribe of Judah and family of David is said to have her Cousin Elizabeth of the Tribe of Levi Luk. 1.36 Rom. 11.13 Yea the Lord faith of Levi Mal. 2.5 My covenant was with him c. And these priviledges we are wont to arrogate as due unto ourselves but corruptio optimi est pessima vers 8. For this reason the Lord threatens Zeph. 1.4 as I shewed long since that he will cut off the Chemarims with the Priests Observ 4. The eighth Preacher hath conformity with the eighth day Behold the great and last day the eighth day the day of the Spirit Joh. 7.37 The day when the Spirit is given which ye find to be the eighth day Lev. 23.36 When Christ in the Spirit the eighth Preacher appears and preacheth from heaven Heb. 12.25 The eighth day of the feast of Tabernacles the word is become flesh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joh. 1. And now is appeared the second time This is the eighth and new day when he creates the new heaven and the new earth Esay 65.17 2 Pet. 3.13 Revel 21.1 The day wherein God rested from all his works but the man rested not therefore arise this is not your rest Deut. Psal Heb. The rest-day that remains for the people of God See Notes on Exod. 20.8 This is the eighth day wherein the fore-skin is cut off Gen. 17.12 Even the fore-skin of the heart from all them that fear God when all the true Seed of Abraham is circumcised This is the true Circumcision on the eighth day Col. 2.11 Phil. 3.3 5. The day wherein the Lord will judge the world with righteousness Act. 17. The true heaven that declares the glory of God Psal 19. day unto day the preaching great day Observ 5. Behold here is the great Prophet that was to come into the world in the last part of time even in the days of the Spirit Joh. 7.37 40. On the eighth day the eighth preacher reveils himself The Jews had a tradition if not the very Scripture it self that a great Poophet should come into the world Joh. 1.19 22. I believe they intended that Prophet promised Deut. 18. who is indeed no other than Christ in the Spirit as the Jews themselves confess Joh. 7.40 Confer Notes on Gen. 26. A Prophet necessary to purge the Scriptures There was a necessity that this Prophet should come Surely the essentials and substantials of Gods Word which he would reveil unto men were at least vertually delivered when Moses saith Deut. 4.2 ye shall not add unto the word which I command you c. the like chap. 12.32 The Jews understand Moses amiss and therefore there was need of the Prophets who should open the meaning of the Law Esay 1.10 20. just as we do now come and hear and pray but continue in our sins And when Moses and the Prophets were fall'n asleep shall we think the Devil was less active in corrupting the Prophets then he was b●fore in corrupting the Law And therefore our Lord he thought it necessary to vindicate his truth from the corruptions of the old world as I shewed before Matth. 5. This great Prophet the Jews acknowledged to be the Lord Jesus Christ Joh. 7 37-40 And shall we now think that since our Lord was crucified and his Apostles fall'n asleep that the great deceiver hath been idle Hath not he corrupted the understanding of the Law the Prophets the Gospel the Acts the Epistles and the prophecy of the last times the Revelation We think it presumption in the Church of Rome and so we may well that they should arrogate unto themselves infallibility and that the Pope should apply to himself that 1 Cor. 2. That he is the spiritual man that judgeth all things that he is the last and chief judge of controversies Doubtless it is presumption in them who conceive themselves infallible and that they can judge truly and certainly of all Scriptures but it is as great if not a greater presumption and arrogancy in us who dare not say we are infallible and cannot err yet most unreasonably would bind men to think as we think and impose upon them our opinions and if they will not be of our judgement to account and call them Sectaries and Hereticks even because they will not or cannot think as we think If it be not so how comes it to pass that there are so many divided judgements concerning the understanding of the Scriptures Whence is it that every several party is so confidently perswaded of their own sence Now if it be so and that the minds of men be darkned and the true sence of the Scripture in many parts of it unknown it must follow Either 1. That the Scriptures must