220 The Old and New Covenant. Chap.-3o tendred by a Prince,and received by a people (whether they be tendred immediately by himfelf or by his Heraulds or Embaf- fadours) make up the relation of King and people : x marriage- Covenant tendred by a man ( as by Abrahams fervant in the name of 1 fanc to Rebecca, Gen. 24) and accepted by a virgin, makes up the relation of husband and wife : Covenant- draughts . between man and man for fervice (as an apprentice his i'nden- tures) make up the relation of Mailer and fervant : now the Gofpel Covenant is all of thefe between God and a people ; where God tenders it, and a people receive it,there God bath his fpoufe, his Subjects, his Servants; Thefe are his people, and all of thefe are Church- members. The word preached and re- ceived bath ever been afligned by Orthodox Divines, as the Characleriilical note of a Church of God; a Church flands and falls with ít; where it is profeffedly received, there is a Church - inter;il. Let one man apart receive it, (as was the cafe of the Ev;ach) he forthwith becomes a Church - member, and is to have (as we fee there) his prefent matriculation, and -to be ad- mitted by Iaptifine a member (not of this or that Congregation, but of the Church univeral vilible ; ) and upon this account wherefoever he comes, is a c ainr, a Difciple, a Cliriflian a l e- leever, and fo to be received and acknowledged ; fee Pfd. 24; This is abundantly confirmed in thofe parables of our Saviour Chrifl, of the loore , where there is both chaffe and wheat, Alar. 3. 12. of the field, where there is both wheat and tares;, of the draught net, where are fifhes good and bad , 1lar. 13. .24, 47, As alfo in that of the Apotlle 2 Tim. 2. 20. In aÁreat i house there are no onely veffels of gold and of Elver, but alto of area in qua d d earth, and orne to honour,and forme to di onour, The triiçttm .7 woo tn of l paleaeft.htper . Church is this.jioore,this field, this draught -net, this-great houfe, in a VeEYtit B1- >larminusproba- rein ecclefia Ca . boli a quæ eft córpva chrifft, eire tam malos quam bonos,tam rk.pronos quàra e;eaos. Hoc ut probaret, affect ban paraoo am aresnr hoc in loco non Gato lita. foi part icu-- taxis- quaque esçlcfia tntelli gióur,in qua nos fatemur tam mq-. l9s,quàm bonos ef e, plcrun que plures ma- lpr quambonos. which there is chaffe, tares, fifh unfit fooufe, and veffels of dif- honour >, to which may be added , the parables of the wedding feaft, in which there is a mixture of, fome without a wed- ding garment , Mat. 22, of the fheep fold With kids and goats. Thefe parables are brought by Bellarmtne for proofe,that the Church doth not confifl onely of the ele &, lib.3.de Ecclef. Mil. C'ap.7. to which a tvhitaker Controv. fecundá,qusf. primâ. Cap. 7. anfwers by dtftin&ion.Bellarmi:ne (faith he) ought to prove that in the Cáthcd ck Church,(Which is the bode; of Chriff) there are both
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