286 The Birth- Privileddge and Covenant-holineffè Ch.38 taking into the Olive, but by Faith, verf. 19, Zo. There is indeed no friew of fenfe in this reply unlefíe he can affirme that there is no faith, but the Faith of the Elea , and that which is juftifying; therefore if it pleafe Mailer Tombes, I. íhall enter the lifts with him in thefe three `I'ofsiions. 1. That Faith is taken in more acceptations then one in Scri- pture ; all Faith doth not entitle to the Church invifible , and therefore there is fcarce íhew offenfe in his reafon, difputing from the cerazu to the Species afrrmativè or from thejuivocum to the e%£g sivocatum. 2. That the Faith here fpoken to, is (as Doaor Featley af- ferts) the doctrine of Faith, not thehabit; Faith of Profefliion, and not a particular affiance ; fides ram, and not fides gm credi- m.î4, and foMafterTovbes his fallacy is clear ; and it will no more follow that the ingraffing is into the Church invifible , be- caufe it is by Faith then it will follow that men hunt with dog - ftarres, dog - fifhes, becaufe they hunt with dogs. 3. That there is no fuch thing in all Scripture as ingraffing into the Church invifible by Faiith ; all ingraffing is into the body .vi fible, and therefore by ,a Faith of profeflion. (I.) All ingraffing is'into that fubjeet , which immediately re- ceives what is ingraffed as the flock receives the fyens ; but it is Chrifl, and not the Church invifible that receives the Elea Be leever; Chrifl dWe11s ¿n us by Faith fo we in Chrifl, Ephef. 3.17. (2,) All ingraffing is into that which gives fap and juice to the engraffed, as the flock from the root to the fyens; Now Chrift gives fap to the Elea beleeving, not the Church, and therefore it is not into the Church, but into Chriff. (3.) If faving Faith ingraffe the branch into the!Church invi- fible , then the Church invifible is the proper :ob jea:of fuck Faith; but the Church is no fuch objea of Faith but Chrift. (4.) That fuppofed ingraffing into the invifible Church is 'either known to the-body invifible, or unwitting,; if known,then it is not invifible. They have no light to difcerne an invifible' work ; ifunkpown then there could not be fuch a çli fpute about I the new ingraffing of Gentiles , nor complaint of breaking off 1 of the Jewes all being done by an invifible tranflation, and fo thet
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