Luke v. 27.

Now, that this Levi, or James the son of Alpheus, was a Jew, his name
doth well make manifest. Besides, had there been among the apostles
any more Gentiles save Simon the Canaanite, or if this Levi James had
been here, I think the Holy Ghost would, to distinguish him, have
included him in the same discriminating character as he did the
other, when he called him "Simon the Canaanite;" Matt. x. 4.

Matthew, therefore, and Levi or James, were both publicans, and, as I
think, called both at the same time; were both publican Jews, and
made by grace the apostles of Jesus Christ.

(3.) The next publican that I find by name made mention of in the
Testament of Christ, is one Zaccheus. And he was a publican; yea,
for ought I know, the master of them all. "There was a man," saith
Luke, "named Zaccheus, which was the chief among the publicans, and
he was rich," Luke xix. 2. This man, Christ saith, was a son of
Abraham, that is, as other Jews were; for he spake to stop the mouths
of their Pharisaical cavillations. Besides, the Publican shewed
himself to be such an one, when under a supposition of wronging any
man, he had respect to the Jewish law of restoring four-fold; Exod.
xxii. 1; 2 Sam. xii. 6.

It is further manifest that he was a Jew, because Christ puts him
among the lost; to wit, among the lost sheep of the house of Israel,
ver. 10; and Matt. xv. 24; for Zaccheus was one that might properly
be said to be lost, and that in the Jews' account: lost, I say, and
that not only in the most common sense, by reason of transgression
against the law, but for that he was an apostate Jew, not with