e mencion in many places. Furste / they aboue
all other sortes and nations of men hadde the promise made vnto
them. Neither are they all yet vtterly to be despayred of / for
the roote remaynethe into the which they maye be ingrafted
agayne / and nowe and then some of them / thoughe not many in
Nombre / do come vnto Christe. Paule saithe to the Romains /

[[Rom. 11.]]

that partly blindnes is happened is Israel / as if he wolde
saie / not vpon all / not for euer. And afterwarde he saieth /
when the fulnes of the gentyles ys comme / then all Israell
shalbe saued: vnto that ende therfore the lorde saueth / and
preseruith them vnto this daye. And that thou sholdest not
thincke that this place is to be vnderstanded allegorically of
the spirituall Israel / Paule teacheth it as a mysterie / and
dothe recite the prophecie of Esaie /

[[Esa. 59.]]

in which it is sayd: That then all the iniquite of Iacob shal be
taken awaie. Besids this they are called ennemies / but yet
beloued for the fathers.

[[Quest. Euang. lib. 2. quest. 33.]]

And Augustine expoundinge the historie of the prodigall sonne /
saieth / that he dothe represent the gentiles /

[[Luc 15.]]

for as he went into a farre countrie / so the gentyles dyd
departe so farre frome God / that they worshipped Idolls as by a
publike order and custome commenlye receyued: But the elder
sonne / by whom the people of the Iues is signified / went not
farre awaie / but was in the felde / not in his fathers house
verylie / which is the church / but in the fielde / for the Iues
are occupied / and conuersaunte aboute the letter of the
scriptures / they vnderstande them whith an earthly and fleshy
mynde: And therfore it is sayde / that he was in the felde: At
the begynning he wente not into the house / but at the last he
shall entre / and be called also:

[[Lib. de fide rerum inuisib. cap. 6.]]

And alwaies Augustine bringith this sentence to persuade men to
suffer the Iues / which is writen in the 58. psal.

[[Psal. 59]]

as he nombred the Psalmes. Sley them not / lest my poeple do
forget / but scater them abroade. &c. The sonne of God praieth
the father / that the Iues mighte not be vtterlie slayne and
destroyed but scatered abroad throughe the worlde. Other
countries and nacyons / being subdued of the Romaynes receyued
their lawes and rytes / and so became Romains / but the Iues
although that they also were ouercomme of the Romaines / yet
were they n