The Birth- Priviledge and Covenant- holineje 01.38' 4rguatent. a. Secondly, That ingrafng rxhich ie called reconciliation , oppofite to calling away, that N by Elet:tion and giving Faith for no other aás can reconcile ; Tut the ingraffing here is called reconciliations oppo fte to calling away, verf. 15. 44 may appear in that verf. 16. ú a reafor of the claufe about the reception of the ?ewes, verf. 15. and the 17. verle, it an admonition from the fuppofition, verf. t 5. that the Jewes were ca fl away, which is called breaking off, verf 17. Now if breaking off, verfi 7. be the fame with calling away verf i 5 then ingraffing ù the fame With reconciliation; Ergo ingrafj:rlg is by Eleton and giving of Faitb. Anfw.- Reconciliation is either gradual, or total,either to take in,or hold a people in vifible communion, or elíá to receive them with an everlafting delight in them. The former of thefe Moles obtained for the people of Ifrael; when the Lord upon the finne of the Golden Calle, Paid ; Let me alone ,that my wrath may waxe hot againfl them,Exod. 3 2. 10. He 6e fought the Lord, andfaid, why doth thy wrath n'axe hot againfl thy people Which thou haft brought forth out of the land of Egypt with a great power anda mighty hand? wherefore, fhould the Egyptians f eak,and fay,For mifchief did he bring them out to flay them in the mountainfs,and to confume them from the face of the earth ? Turne from thy fierce wrath , and repent of this evil againfl thy people. Remember Abraham , Ifaac , and Ifrael, thy fervants, to whom thou fwarefl by thy owne fetf, andfaideftunto them : I will multiplieyour feed as the Starres of heaven and all this land that 1 have fjio;len of, will I give unto yourfeed , and they fhall inherit it for ever. And the Lord relented `the evil which he thought to do unto his people, verf z t, 12, ¡3, r 4. This being pre- mifed , if any were at fault for a full anfwer, he might eafily finde it in the objection it felf. Reconciliation is oppofite to calling a- way. The Jewes then by reconciliation are brought into that flate, out of which they were once caft ; but they were not calf out of the Church itivifible; not out of election and juftification, but out of a vifible Church-flate and fellowfhip. Breaking off, Matter Tom6ev,vell faith, is the fame as calling away, and recon- ciliation the fame as ingraffing. Their reconciliation or ingraf- fing is then into that condition from which they were broken, out
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