3a The Birth- Priviled e and Covenant- holineffe Ch. 38 are one newman, or new body. The like (Matter Tombes fajes) may be faid of the otlerplaces,and I fay to like purpofé; He addes, Matter Gerces gib; Brvation I deny not, but acknowledged before to be true, and ufefull in many places, but to the prefent bu ine fe im= pertinent, the queftion being not now how the Gentiles or Churches may be ('aid to be ekU or believers though many be Hypocrites, but i what 4Et the ingraffng,Rom.. t i. 17. zeal whether an atf of God giving Faith according to eleflion, or Ivhethcr it be an act of admifJi on into vifibleC'hurcb- memberfhip which lithe aU of an Admiuiftrator as by Baptifine or Tome other aEE of man; It is well that any truth can be owned from Matter Gerees hand , and for his Rating of the quettion, Both he not fee that here is not a fufficient enumera- tion ? The ingraffing is not by giving Eaith of Eletion, as hath been fully proved ; nor is it fuch an ad of admiffìon as he there defcr;bes : All this is his Spohittry, but it is Gods giving of Faith in and by Gofpei-Ordinances,to give assent to Gospel-Mytteries, and make profeffion of them. For his texts from Gal. 3. 14, 26. 28329. when he shall tell me how they are parallel , then I thall give my anfwer. There is an ingraffing into Chrift mentioned, but none into the Church ; And fo his parallels are without force, as are his arguments. Two things lie upon Matter Tombes, and nei- ther is done. a To prove that his Scriptures ipeak of a Church invilble. 2. That they are parallel with this Scripture; The Reader will hereafter finde him reasoning with his full firength againft the force of all arguments à Pari, and yet this argument inuftcarry.,force: from .the parity of Scriptures, which he onely fajes, and not at all proves that they are parallel, nor yet thewes fo much as in a word wherein their parity conófts; he well knows that by this meanes their difparity might appear.. Argument. I o.. For the authorities_ by him produced ( which he makes his tenth Argument) out of Marlorates Cathol. Expos. (which he boafls that Matter Geree paffes by,) he faies he findes but two, yet he names' three,I have here put them in the Margine, * Hyperius, Buçer, Calvsn, as cited by him.. But the Reader may fee that he mull by a mile rabic begging of the quettion, take it for granted, that by Faith tfey meane alwayes a Faith that juf}ifies , and no Faith of profeffon, andshat Election and, Repea ion are alwayes rlfed. *'z"Hyperiùs. Ieq ieenim bic, amptias docet, f èd orationem tetan ad Gen- tes eonvertens.
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