Ch. 3 8. of the fie of Beleever,s. 2 8 I out of which they were call; now they were caft out of the Church vifible, not out of the Church invifible; when they were in a Church- flate, they were nigh unto God, Deut. 4.7. pfal. 148.14. Ephef. 2.17. Their reconciliation brings them into the fame Church flate , which is a reconc'liation gradual], not total!. Mailer Tombes page 9, i o. faith, when any 'hall Thew either a Scripture wherein by reconciliation to Cod, is meant bare vouchfa- ingavifible Church-Hate ; and by cif1ing away, and breaking off; a lopof vtfible priviledges,or any approvod writer in the Churches of the Protellants fo expounding it ; I shall begin to fufjiec`l that 1 am milla- ken , but till then, I /ball remain confident I.am in the right and ¡hall wonder that any that loves not to Wrangle , but fearer to pervert the Scripture and the truth of God, Jhouid Clare fo to interpret it. Here I may have many things to fay. z. When Mailer Tombes pleafes, he can heap up phrafes which are only once ufed in a fele& fenfe in Scripture, and that to up- ! hold his interpretation of holy and unclean, 2 C'or. 7. 14. when the context clearly evinces the contrary. 2. Mailer Tombes when he pleafes, dare undertake the defence of an opinion held unanimoufly by all Papifls,and as unanimoufly oppofed by Proteflants, as in that ofCovenant- hblineffe. 3. Gomarue, Tom, I. pag. r u. obferves, that World is taken in that fenfe in Rom. It, I2, IS. as in no other Scripture. 4. If reconciliation in no other place be fo ufed, yet little is gained ; feeing as we have feen, there are parallel phrafes that hold out the fame thing to us. 5. I fhall gratifie him with an Authour, an approved Writer in the Proteftant Church, that fo interprets this Text in hand, that by reconciliation to God is meant no more then vouchfafing a vifible Church- flate. It is Ravanellus who having in his labo- rious worke, Thefaurm Scripturx diflinguifhed of a * twofold * Reconcilia_ tio efi duplex. I Hominis cura Deo. z, Hominfs 2Zeconciliatio hominis cum Deo, qua' amicitia, qua in prima creationc hominispcura Deo fCreatore intercefferat, propter hominis offenfam in Deum folios . fuerit ade() ut inimicttia equuta effent, redintegratur per mediatorem. De qua quidem reconciliatione notanda veniunt. s. 7' omen. Reconcilíatio hominis cum Deo fumitur _vet propeié in fignificatione pradictfa, vel minus proprie', ut Ro. I r. T. ( Pro z 5, errore typographe ubi per reconciliationem mundi cum Dee intelligitur Gentium ad ftdem Chrif i converfio feu ipfarum vacano ad participstionem ,gratia Dei, qua ctiam falun Gentium, ver. z I. opulentia mandi, ver. 12. dicitur. O o TeCm'l- F
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