Ch.36. of the iif to of Belee'vers. God to thee and thy feed, that is according to Calvin, to all that /hall defcend from him , to all that according to the flefh are borne to him, as alfo noW (the partition -wall being taken away) to all the children of Chriflian.r, which according to the flefh 'hall le borne to them ; And Calvin sickles ( faith Stapleton) that Clod calls all of the of 1pring of Ifrael his children ; But (faith he) the Apoiile#eakr the contra- ry expre'rely. They are not all Ifrael that are of Ifrael, neither be- caw fe they are thed feed of Abraham are they all childrere,but in Ifaac 'hall thy feed be called ; that is, they that are the children of the fled , thole are not the chaldren of God , but the children of the prcm fe are counted for the feed, But (faith he) the children of the promife are children borne after the Spirit whether they defcended from Abra- ham and Ifaac or no, with much more to this purpofe, We have drunk up the Proteftants poifon , and Matter 2 ombes his great care is , to preferve his party by the Jefuites antidote ; he is wholly beholding to them for the receipt ; what probatum ell he or they can write upon it, muft be examined. And that Matter Tom'bes may not deny, but in the examination of this triumphing Argument of his he bath fquare dealing, I (hall give you his words at length. I deny not (faith he) but there was forme other promife included in that objet7ion to wit,fome promife made to Ifrael, or the bottle of Ifrael, probably that, Jerem. 31. 33, 36, 37. For fo the words, verf 6. They are not all Ifrael which are ofIfrael, do intimate. But without que 'lion the promife made to Abraham, Gen. 17.7. Was one which ocas included in that objeíllion; Beza, Twiffe, Ames, and others an /niering Arminius, call it the Covenant ofgod. with Abraham, Which was that, Gen. 17. 7. and the very phrafe of Abrahams feed (in Ifaac Jhall thy feed be called, verf 7. The chil- dren of the promife are counted for the feed, verf. 8. Sarah fhall have a tonne, as verf. 9.) do evidently Thew, that the promife (objetled to prove,that if the7ewsWere rejeEledfrom being Gods people, then God failed in making good /Jul word) was that promife to Abraham ; 1 will be thy God, and the God of thy feed: Whereto l may adde that the an fwerersof Arminius,and the cited Remonfirants, to wit , Baine, and IAmes, do fay it was the word of promife, not of the Law,as Arminius s conceived; for the word of promi(e,faith Ames,Animadv. in Remon- firan. Script. Synod. de prxdeft. Cap. 8. Se t.4.dis diflinguifhed' and op po fed to the words of the LaW, Gal. 3.1 7, 18. Now the word of the promife there rs to Abraham and his feed, verf. 16. and this i3 1 L 1 3 there 2 6 t
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