;, 2 6 2 The Birth - Priviledge and Covenant- holine1 fe Ch, 3 6 there called by him` veibum fcederis, the word of the Covenant ; now let us confider how the eXpoflle anfwers it. He denies that Gods word made to Abraham did fall, though the lewes were rejetied; becaufe that promife, I will be thy God, and the God of thy feed ; as it compre- hended Paving grace, Wad never meant by God of all Abrahams pofle- rity , or of any barely as they were defcended from Abraham by natu- ral generation ; but of the 1_' let1 Whether defcended by natural gene- ration from Abraham or not. eí4nd this is apparent, both from the' words, verf. 7. Neither becaufe they are the feed of Abraham are they all children but in Ifaac(hall thy feed be called, verf. 8. It is expounded thus ; that is, they which are the children of the fiefh,thefe are not the children of God; but the children of thepromife are counted for the feed. Whence it is apparent, that the farne are not alwayes the feed by calling , which are the feed of Abraham by natural generati- on ; and that the children of the flefh are not the fame with the children of the promife , and that the Apof le conceived thas the right may of anft eying thole that objected t he jailing of Gods word upon the rejetlion of the Iews, by ref raining the promife of »being God to Abrahams feed, only to the Elect, Whether of Abrahams natural pofterity or not; with fo little refjiet2 to any birthrightpriviledge , that he not anely rejetled Ifhmael, and took Ifaac , but al(o loved Jacob, and hated Efau ; by prophecie declaring his minde, The elder (hall ferve.the younger; and in this the eflpof le acquits god from unrighteoufne fe, in that he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardens ; notwithflanding his promife made to Abraham and Ifrael , or any Birth- priviledge they could claime. Yielding to Natter Tombes that this Text in that place of the Apoftle is brought into queftion by the Apottle Before I come to the Apo -! files words themfelves I have divers lucre's to put to him. .1 . How Baine and Ames come to the name of Remonflrants ? had thought they had been on the party that are called Contra- Remonffrantsq 2. Where it appeares that Arminiaas conceived that the Cove- nant therefpoken to, was the word of the Law , and not of Pro - mife ; I am lure in his Analyfis on this Chapter to the Ramanes (of which Mr. Tombes fhould not be ignorant, little lefs then vapour - ing of his Exiunination of it in Oxford Apolog. page 131.) he fpeaks in another manner, even in Matter Tombes his own Dialel, as though the_ones Comment had been fpit out of the mouth of the
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