all difficulties are no hinderance; and though _Israel_ be bond-men in _Ægypt_, and sealed up to it by the darknesse of a midnight, yet let but God speake, and they are immediately at liberty, and sent away without waiting for the comming of the day. Now we ought much to minde their Conversion, exercising thereupon our faith, our prayers, and also our enquiries, and that for these following reasons: _First_, because they have the same Humane nature with us; from this ground we should wish well to all men, whether _Jew_, or _Gentile_; which is the precept of the Apostle, in _2 Pet._ 1.7. _To adde love to brotherly kindnesse_; that is, not only to love Saints, but to love Men (though the Saints with a choyse, and peculiar love.) Yea it is Gods owne practise, in _Mat._ 5.45. There is a φιλανθρωπία in God (as _Paul_ saith to _Titus_) a love to Man-kinde. _Plutarch_ could observe that God is not called φίλιππος, he beares another manner of love to men, than to horses; so ought we to doe, and even upon this generall account, to love the _Jewish_ Nation. _Secondly_, because of their extraction; Their root is holy, though now the Branches be degenerate and wilde; so in _Rom._ 11. vers. 16, 17. Some good turnes are due to the bad children of good Parents for the Parents sake; and this _Paul_ expresly urgeth, in _Rom._ 11.28. _that they are beloved for the Fathers sake_; yea the chief root, or head of their Nation, _Abraham_ is mystically our substituted Father, as in _Gal._ 4 last; _If ye be Christs, then are ye_ Abrahams _seed, and heires according to the promise_. The _Jewes_ are children, and heires of the flesh of _Abraham_, but we of his faith; they by the Bond-woman, but we by the Free; but notwithstanding, _Abraham_ is our common Father, and therefore we should love as brethren.