Ch 3 8 of the iffite of Beleeveri. 3°7 11 confirme my o6fervation, touching the expreons of Scripture, when they ijieak of the vifible Church in Which there are good and bad, they in regard o f the prof fJon of all and the reality in the eleEE Lbeak ets though all were eleti : Rut it is by a S.) nechdoche : For let Mafler Tombes tellme,doth he think all and every particular perfora 6aptized in Corinth or Galata were really ingraffed into the body òf Ghrifi, or had put him on ? yet this war fjioken of all in regard this was true in all in profefon and appearance, and there Were lone e- le51 among them of whose it was true really, even fo we do and are to interpret many phrafes urged by him in Rom. r i. in this pre - font btelineff. Mager Tombes replies , i like it not that Maier Ceree alters the order wherein I put parallel places, 1 put firfi E. phef. 3, 6 which I conceived clearef for my purpofe, and al/eadg- ed it only in my Examen, pag. 65. Nor deth Matter Geree de- ny it to 6e parallel ; A great offence lure : It feemes he thinks the relt are little to his purpofe. Malter Hud!on, pag. 132. hath not only affirmed, but proved that the text i Cor, i a. r 3. is meant of the Church as vifible, and this in which his greareft confidence is placed, I am lure is nothing at all to purpofe ; I know not what Malter G, affirmes or denies, but upon Malter Tombes his credit; but let us hear Mater Tombes his reafons, Now fore the Gentiles Were made fellow -heirs of the fame holy and copartakers of the promife of God in the G'ofjiel, not by an outward Ordinance, but by giving of Faith according to Elec`lion ; Ergo the ingrafng Rom. I r. 17. parallel to it is not by an outward Ordinance but by giving Faith according to f leciion. Oh that Mutter ,T emfes fpake truth : Then (as the Aperf1le faith of frael at their reftau- ration all Ifrael fhall be Caved, Rom. it. 2 .) All England in Matta quo, thould be laved in the fenfe that Matter Tombes would underhand falvation, whether we be by defcent Britaines, Saxons, or Normans, we are Gentiles, and confequently by his di- vinity partakers of the Golpel by Faith according to EleCtion;Sure I am this text is meant of (dofpel -glory in Ordinance difpenfed by the Apoftles Miniftery ; And as to the Jewes appertained the glory, and the promifes, Rom.g. 4, 5. So now the glory and pro - mifes belong to the Gentiles ; And as many Jewes as fell not off, fill] enjoy this glory with the Gentiles, and fo b4th make one new man, Ephef 2. 15. The ftate of the Jewes was a di- ftinE body from the Gentiles : Now upon this glorious call they R r 2 are
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