6o The Birth -f riviledge and Covenant-holineffe Ch. 3 6 feverally, much more all joyntly make good this Pofition, that all the natural feed of Abraham by Ifaac and Jacob are in that great Charter (vouchfafed of God) taken into Covenant fo as to be the people of God , and to enjoy all priviledges of his peo- ple in order (upon Gods termes) to everlafting falvation. C HA P. XXXVI. ii o M a 9. 6, 7, 8. Vindicated. Hough Mafter Tombes bath little to fay to all thefeScriptures, as indeed little rather nothing can be Paid they hold forth with fo clear a light a Covenant in that latitude, and with thofe prerogatives, as you have heard ; yet he bath one Text of Scripture , not to clear any one , but to filence and overthrow them all , and that is the words of the Apoftle, Rcm. 9. 6, 7,8. Where the Apofile (having fufficiently hinted to them the reje- dion of a great part of the Jewes , in his profeflïón of that great heavineflè and forrow of heart in their behalfe, and that he could with that himfelf were accurfed from Chrift for them) undertakes to anfwer an objection, If Ifrael be cat off, then the word of God will be of none effeel,his promife will faile ; Rut the pro- mile of God made with his people cannot faile, therefore Ifrael in tech a con,robrable number is not ca ft off. In which place (faith Mr. Tombes) this very Text, that no* is the apple of our con - tention,was brought into queftion. phis Maí}er Tombes bath borrowed from Stapleton the Je- fuite, at leaft Stapleton hath gone before him in it, and Matter Tombes bath learned to a haire to follow him. a Stapleton undertaking to make good that Calvin contradicts the Apoftle (which he puts into his Margent) faith, Calvin f ges , that the whole progeny of Abraham ú holy, becarfe God entred the Cove- nane of life with him in there words; 1 will be a God a Dicit Calvinus totam Abraha pro - geniem effe (anl am, quia fcedur vite Deus cura illo pepigerat his viz.verbis: Ero Veut tibi femini tuo, id eft, ut Calvinus vult, omnibus ab Abrahamo oriundis, omnibus ex co fecundtm car- nem natis, fzcut nunc, diruta maccriâ, omnibus Chriftianorum parentum liberis ab illis fecundum canem natis. Addit Deum omnes filios fats vocavc, qui ex Ifracle June progeniti; Atqui Apofto lto diferti/fimé contrarium dicit, non omnes qui ex Ifraele, ii putt Ifraelitx.; neque qui femen funt Abrahx orants filii, lid in Ifaac voeabitur tibi fasten, id eft, non qui filii carnis, bi font fitiiDti, fed qui filii font promifonis, afti- mantur in femtne. Filii autcm omit. floats runt filii fecundoira Spiritus, five .ex Abraham Ifaac carnaliter ori undi, five non.
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