Chap. 35 of the i, f e of f I3eleevers.. . 2 55 can be more evident. The Covenant is full, ,ver. 7. 7o be as God o Abraham and to hu feed , and this he might have been had he pleafed, in the land of Vr of the Caldees , or in any land what - foever that his feed had been planted : But when the Covenant is thus made, there is added ; And I will give unto thee, and to thy feed a,/ter thee the land wherein thon art a ftranger, all the land of Canaan for mn everlafting po fe;t rn. As for that of the Pfalmi,ftt, where he thinks the Holy Choft fpeaks otherwife ; the, force of this Argument muff needs be this. That which is any where called a Covenant, that is not an appendant to a Covenant ; but the giving of the land of Canaan to the feed of Abraham,is there called by the name of a Covenant. Mafter Tombes lure will not fay , that Circumcifion is the Covenant between God and his people , he will not deny butit is a ligne and Peal annext to the Covenant; and yet, Gen, 17. I o. it is called a.Covenant Thti t my- Covenant which ye 'ball keep between me and you , and thy feed after thee every man- ch,lde among you 'hall be circumci[ed. Maher Tombes well enough knowes a Metonymy of the adjunct, and the common ufe of it in Scripture ;, but that:it is.his wifdome for his, advantage toconceate it.. Neev Teft;_- My fifth and lait Argument is drawne from thofe feveral 'Texts ruent Seri_ in the New Teftament which interpret this Covenant thus en- ptu es conclu- tered with Abraham in that latitude as extending to his natur drug Abrabarr<r rai iffue, and not: with liretit to his-fpiritual feed; and that matt "al feed to not barely in domeftick civil but i: f iritual romifes.; fo that. bet Cover y T p .,ant,... this one bath many in the bowels of it. Firft, Rom 9. I, 2, 2,4 5. verfes. The Apoftie aggravating Rom. y, in the higheft and faddeft way that great heavineffe and coati-- ; g, ,5. nual forrow of heart that he had for //rad; not refpeciive to civil ordomeftick, but .higher concernnaents, for the whole body oflfrael , his brethren and kinfmen according to the fliefh, as he expreffeth himfelf, ver/ 3: For amplification of the reail grounds,. of his trouble, that loch a people lhould'be caft off; he reckons up their priviledges , the priviledges of all that according to the flesh were Ifraelites ; priviledges formerly enjoyed, but-now loft, nine in number : Who are Ifraelites,.to whom appertaines the A- doption, andtbe:Glory,and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the fervice ofGod, and the Promifes ? Vhofeaxe the Fathers, and of whom as concerning:the fiefh Chrilt came, who
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