298 The Birth-P riviledge and Covenant- holinef Ch. 38 the flefh: what Myfkery had the Apoftle revealed, in cafe he had only [hewed that all Elea beleevers should be Paved ? eArgument. 7. Seventhly, If the re- ingraffi g be by vertue bf .Gods Ele lion and love, his gifts of calling, then it is into the invijble Church by Election, and giving Faith :Tut the former is true, verfe 28, 29. Ergo the latter. Anfw. His Election, love, and gifts of calling did at the fiirft . put them into a vifible Church -[rate and condition, Mat. 7. y, 8, The Lord did not Pet his love upon you , nor chufe you becaufe you were moe in number then any people : for ye were the ferrefl of all p- ^ogle: But becaufe the Lord loved you, sand becaufe he would keep the Oath which he had [Warne unto your fathers, &c. And the fame love, eleaion and gifts of calling, now they are broken off, doth re- ingraffe them ; If this Argument hold, it was an invisible Church that was brought out of the land of Egypt. Mailer Geree interpreting thofe words, Rom. r r, 29. The gifts and calling of god are without repentance, of fuch eleftion , love, and gifts as belong to bodies or Nations, and not,as Matter Tombes interprets it,ele Pion to falvation, he replies, pag.13. Mailer Geree it feemes rather them he would hie this text for ingraffing a whole Nation, fathers and children, by an outward ordinance,as of T. aptlfine, into the vrfi6le Church, will enervate all that the Anti - Arminian difjute from Rom. z I. 2 8 29, to prove irrevocable eleliion and cer- t.aine perfeverance of true beleevers, as may be feene iaa their feveral judgements. And then brings a lift of Authors that urge it againft aA minius for perfeverance, adding farther, yet Aiafier Geree will not have the eleîiion, love, and gifts to be fuch as belong to elefilon. But underftands it of fuck outward priviled, es, or Church(bate, as are confeffed by p,s7 uorr-ru, fuch as God doth revoke, re violently Was he carried in alleadging this text for his Baby- Baptifine, that he heed ed not what fervice he did to the Arminians by his interpretation,, nor how palpably he- abufed this Scripture, in which he p °acedmo ft of his firength; M,Tom6es [hews here a mighty zeal for thehonour of the Anti- Arrnit51ans,who yet in this verySec`tion hath done them more tiifervice then either Tompfon, Barron', or Mountague in England, or the general body of his own party , who according to their wear,,
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