Blake - Houston-Packer Collection BT155 .B53 1653

Chap.38 of the ifue of Beleevers. ufid as (pecks of eternal predellination, and never refpective to fapientcr wont, a Church-ftate (when yet page 23. he confeffes the contrary) or ne propter ele- elfe all of tilde fpeak not one word to his furpofè ; He hath c?ionem fiam heard of thofe which (peak out, and that punctually againft him. elfcrantur, aut iceos It is to be marvelled that M. Tombe' building fo much (as in this f' i funtr con - place he would feem)on authorities of men,would take them upon remnant : maxi- nzè quum t u- d eorum plurimi falutem fine ad- hue per Evange - lium confequu- 3.09 truft where pieces of ' ententes are held out, and not confuti the Authors themfelves,where he might have found,that as fometimes they fpeak ambiguoufly, and feeme to him to fpeak for him , fo elfewhere in expreffe termes againft him. turi, Gentes ve- rò iterumpofjent, fi Deo itivífum foret,reprobari. Bucer.Infitua fiuif{i illis] Hoc beneficiumeff. quad gentiben per lud cos contigit. Gentes enim perfidem c brifti falce funi fernen Abrahæ, Gal. 3. 29. Ergo inf tcelrtdceis, ut gratta fanc`fis patribus Aromi ffá (Y fruantur, ( fpiritu illorum vivant: id quad flpo, olus per communionem radicis pinguedinis fcgnificat. llt namque filii Dei omnes eá- dem Dei benevolent iâ nituntur, it's corum fpiritit aguntur, etiamfi hic donetur grandior po ft revela- sum Chriftum. Hic vera ex pr ecipuis lotis eft ex qui bus probatur eodem fpiritu verte jaftiti e donatos fui ffe Sud tos ante incarnatum Cbriftum. Calvin.ad verf.to.Nam rejeffio lud eorum, f mob increduli totemfactiz eft,Gentium infitio per fzdem, quid reftat nifi ut Deigrattam recognofcendo hide ad mode,- ftiam ac fitbmifonem formentur ? SECT, III. Arguments for ingraffrnc- in, and breaking of from a Churc) vifible. Aving feene the weaknefre of Mafler Tombes his heap of I 1 words for the breaking off of the whole body of the people of the ewes from the Church invi(ble, and the ingraffing of the whole body of the Gentiles, not into the vifible, but invifîble, áo dy. I 'hall offer to the Reader arguments on the contrary. i. That ingraffing which is into Abraham, lfaac, and 7acob as a root, is not an invitible graffing by laving faith and Election, as Matter Tombes fpeaks. This is plaine, we live not by power re- ceived from Abraham, Abraham cannot fay he bears us up in fa- ving graces, and without lap from him we can do nothing, but the ingraffing is into Abraham, Ifaac, and 7acob asa roolot This argu. ment MafterTombes confeffes,were of force if he fhould make R 3 Arguments ej vincing the in- graffing to be into theChurch only as vifible, and the break- ing off to be fró the Church,: as vifb!.e.. Abraham,'

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