Chap. ;o. The Old and New Covenant. 22i both good and bad, reprobate as well as elect, and for proofe oftk4 (faith he) he brings the parable of the floole , in which there rs wheat and chafe ; but by the floore in this place it not meant (faith he) the Catholick Church, but each particular Church, in which (we confe f fie) there are bad, as well as good, and for the moil part more bad then good. And though he makes force exceptions a- gainft force of the parables, et he applies the fame anfwer to others. Concerning, that of the draw -nt he faith The fenfe of the parable is manifeft.bIt happens in the Church When the Go#clis preached,asin the tea when 1) Senfus parabola manifcfiu3ell; fcii the draught-net is ca fl to take fifh. t. cAll the ftfhes that are irì the fea are not enclofed in the net. 2. rÁ111 are not good that are inclofed but force are unfit for ufe. 3. The had ft /h are not feparete from the good till the net be drawn to land: fo when the GoBiel is preached, all msn do not come in, all are not good that come., and the good and bad are not f pirate till the end of the world. And Doctor Reynolds maintaining that pofition,7hat the holy Ca- tholick C.burcb, which we believe is the whole company of Gods else aid chof n, faith, The wi: k ol rnufí needs be apart of the Church, if the name of Church dd fgnifie the vifbl Church , as we cal it , con¡ fling of the good and bad. A. me flits who (as we heard) ;udges it very probable that there is no vifible church where the word is truly preached in which there are not Tome that are godly,and therefore is farre from concluding the god linef e of all in his Be Evervatus, Ecclefra evcnire f olere cúm Evangelium praedicatur, ut cúm verriculum in mire projicitur ad pijier capiendos. ,i rimò non omnes pi, ces qui jtut in mari capiuntur. Sccundò,non omnes boni flint qui capiun cur, fed multi inutiles. Terttò, non fe- parantur m.tli piles a bonis donec vcrri- culurn ad terrant extra5tum fuerit. Sic in Ecclefa e u m Evangelium pradicatur, non omise homilies accedunt, non omnes qui accedunt funt boni non fèp.trantur bo- ns ò, milis ante finem mundi, lib. a. de Ecclef.cap. i. faith, It is falfe,thatinward graces are re- quired of us to a mans being in the Church as to the vifibl.e flare of it: fee flpolloniui Syllog. pag. 8. ProfefforesLeyden difput. 4.c. pag. 3. If any man judge it to be abfurd, that Chrift fhould have wicked men (who are limbs of Satan) to be of his myfi- cal body carnal wicked men to be members of filch a "gracious and glorious head: Chrift is the head of his Church, .fay they; if they be Church- members, then Chrift" is their head; I (hall refer them to a full and fatisfying anfwer to Mafler Hiadfons Vindication, pag. 6, 7, 8. And for thofe- that deny any I being of a Church univerfal "viflble. (ás- Mafter BldckwceJ in his q F 3 " Storm, Fclfiorr eff ir- trriz,zs u rtures requiri ut al guis f t in ccclefa gttoad vifbílemejtcs. atarrr..
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