h. of the jte of Beleever$. upon tae, but then addes: How doth thr I Rand with 'that which he afferts, chap. 3. left. 2. of hù anfwer to my letter, page 13. That .infants of B'eleevers have fatvation , if they die in their infancy by venue of the Covenant? For iethe Covenant only entitle to out Ward priviledges , horn Both it entitle to falvation ? So that to /peak, plainly, Matter Bake loth but play fag. andloofe, fometimes a ffert- ing a certainty of falvation from the Covenant, fometimes only a right to o;atzrard priviledges. Putting thefe words in a diflinel charact- er, as though he had been as punc`fuall in tranfcribing them , as in quotation of the place whence he pretends that he took them. If thofe words can be found in that Chap. Seat, pag. or any other place from my hand , then let his cenfure Rand ; but if I never publi(hed them , then the Reader muff know that Mailer Tombes 1 bath feigned them. It fhould be farre below his worth by dealings of this n- ature, to render a brother odious, That the words 1 were -none of mine ; Mafter Tombes could not but know when he Tithed them, that the meaning was not mine ; he knew alfo, teeing I expreffe it in thefe words, that the, are in the ordinary Way of Gods ditfienfationfavea!le. I (hall expel to hear this calumny,as - fairly answered as many others that are anfwerably foule ; when he hath lint up this man of ftraw, he makes it his work to beat it down, and comes againft it with five arguments and authorities multiplied out of Proteflant Writers, Beta, Twiffe, walker, iT he Annotations on the Bible Ames, Panetta, Dawn/lam. I am 'content that all thefe Worthies (hall hill Eland up in their honour, ,' and that Mailer `.T ombes his (hallow [hall fall with fhame, as well has I am that Bellarmine, Stapleton,ALapiele, Becanue, Ef tta fhould fall , and (refpedive to this caufe Mailer `lJombes) with them making ufe of other names, all along his Treatife, but their ar- guments. To draw all up towards a conclufion. Al.! that is ne- ceflarilyincludedinGodsentrance of Covenant with a people, engaging to be their God , and taking them for his people ; is here by this grand Charter of Heaven made over to Abraham and his natural! iffue by Ifaac and Jacob. All their poflerity are branches of this root by nature limply confidered , and they are holy branches byvertue of this Covenant, which neceffarily im- plies priviledge of Ordinances, the fruition of$Gods oracles, which are his Covenant - draughts ; without which no people are in Covenant, but all are flrangers : And this priviledge of Or. K k 2 dinances
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