Ch.38. of the zffue of Beleevers. 3o2 deGre MafterTombes to confider for whom.Mofes interceded,vvhen' he prayed, Remember Abraham, Ifaac and Ifrael thy fervants, to whom thou fwarefl by thy own felt, and faidefl unto them I Will multiply your feed as the flames of heaven, and all this land that I have jlioken of will I give unto your feed, 'and they ¡hall inherit it for ever,Exod. 32, 13. Was it not the whole body of Ifrael? And for whom is it that God promifes to remember his Cotenant with Jacob, andalto .his Covenant With Ifaac, and alfa his Covenant with Abraham, Levit. 26.42. Was it not the *hole Nation under [offering, as there isexpreft, I will remember the land? Either then Paul and Mofes erre, together with thé lift of Authors here men tioned,or elfe Matter Geree is in the truth,and Mailer Tombes in an errour. e1rgurnent, E.. Eighthly, if the ingraing both of ?ewes and Gentiles be the fruit of Gods mercy, the breaking off' by,fhutting up in unbelief, then the into the invifible Church by elellion and giving faith:But the former is true, ver. 3o, 3r, 32. Ergo the latter. AO. ', This Argument I had already from Mailer Tombes, pag. 204. and he kath my anfwer, page 51. the priviledge of a Church--fiate ( which the Jews once had, and again (hall have)is a mercy,I deGre Mailer Tombes to give us a comment on Hof. i. 6, g. What ¡hall I fay more ? It is fo plaine from the whole ¡cope, and tenour of the ApofllesWords, that the ingraffing there "token of is, into the invifibicChurch by elethon and giving faith, that from the ferfl of the chapter to verte 13. there is [caree a vert but Beaks of rejeding, foreitnowing, eletlion, grace, hardening, giving a Spirit of (lumber, darkening the eyes, Humbling, falling, or fame equipol- lent terme to thefe ; and the fl pot le dotti plainly lignifie his inten- tion in all thatdifcourfe,to be the J7ieWing the myflery ofGodsÿcounfell in eleeling, reprobating, blinding, converting, one while the jewes, another while the Gentiles; fo that I cannot but admire that lldaftcr Marfhall' fhould interpret the ingra f fang of bare adtnion into vifible Church.member fhip. Ant. i. Maier Tombes might do well to tell Rs whatingraf- fing is by Election;I take that to bean immanent art in God,which is terminated in himfelf, and not on the creature; filch exprefiîons do not fuite with Mailer Tombes his high pretendings to fcholafti.. call learning,. 2. To
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