Ch.;8. of the que óf Teleever,s. the fubjeòl of the queftion is taken away.. Logicians give rules concerning divif ons, that there ought to be no Member that is not in being ; fo Scheibler (as Iremember) in his Topicks; Ma- iler Tombes dividing Church-ingraffing into vifible and invifible, offends againft this rule. To difpute whether ingraffing into the Church, be into the Church vifible , or_invifìble ; is to difpute whether the Mount of Olives be a Mountaine of Earth, or Aire. I (hall affoon finde a Mountaine of Aire in Geography, as Matter Tombes ingraffing into the invifibfe Church in Divinity : And here I tie not, v1after Tombes up to the word ( which I conceive in reference to any Ecclefiaftical or Spiritual nation, is not elfe- where ufed in Scripture) but to the thing. All that acceflè to the Church from Gentile Nations , which is fo largely fore-pro- phefied in the Old Tenament, and Hiflorically related in the AEIs of the eiApo files , was an ingraffing into the Church vifible and this ingraffing here mentioned. The vifible Church did imme- diately receive thefe new Branches , and fo the whole body of Jewes and Gentiles profeffedly beleeving Ephef. 2. ig. became one new man. The vifible Church comunicates fap and juice, which is the fatneffe of the Olive in Ordinances; and Faith dog- matical looks upon the Church as the partial object. This is known by the Church vifible, they were fenfible of, and full of praifes for the new addition. `rgument. Fourthly, 7 hat ingraffing is meant, verf, T¡. whereby the Wilde Olive is co- partstkker of the root and fatneffe of the Olive -tree, as is of - f rted there. But fuck is only Ele lion and giving of Faith. Ergo. The minor 1 prove by confidering taho the root is, and what the fatnefs o f the Olive -tree ts, I . Negatively, the root is not,as IWaf er Maxilla! and A4r. Blake, every beleeving parent. Anfw. I fuppofe I, may anfwer for my felf, that I never laid that every beleeving parent is the root; Mailer Tombes knowes well enough what I fay, page 3o. you and I are well enough agre- ed that Abraham is the root, though we are farre enough wide in the manner of ingraffing, or priviledges derivectfrom him, I have faid that every beleeving, Parent is a root, and this I have proved, pag. 3 i. of my anfwer, which when Mailer Tombesl cannot 287
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