.1C.8. of the ite r,f' Beleever,r. Sixthly, If the flare of the Jew es continued from the .Apoflles time to this day , be an exclufio.i from a vifible Church flare, fo that they are no.people of God in name, then a vifible Church - flate is that which they foil and the Gentiles gained ; This is plaine. The flate in which they fland being rejec`fed , is their flate of rejection; But their condition fince that time is an ex- clufion out of a vifible Church -Rate. This needs no proof: There fore a vifible Church-flate, is that which the Jewes loft, and there gained. Matter Tombes flipping by what he bath no minde to fpeak to faith, Apolog, pag. 75, The only abjecdion of Weight is that theca ' fame branches of the invifible Church meat' be broken o ff and foEleRion Made revocable, and rIpoflafie from Grace maintained ; and hereup- on /Wafter Marfhal accesfeth me u fymboliz,ing With Armitiius, and puts this in the Margin of his Book, pag. 144. and in the Index. This charge (he layes) he had thought he had prevented, page 64. of his examen , where he declares , that the meaning is not that ir lone of the branches of the invifible Church may be broken off , but i only fuch as were fo in appearance. But the invifible Church, con - 1 fitting of the Elect, and favingly believing ; and this ingrafiîng I being by Eleecion and Faith , there branches in appearance can be only vifible,not invifible Members. Upon a more accurate ex- amination, as he faith, pg. 76. of his A9ol. he lets this paffe, and faith ; when the ripoffle faith The branches were broken off he means it of the branches that were truly fuch,and of the in ra ,íßg that was truly foci¡, into the invifble Church ; but that by.the branches are not meant fn?ular perfons , but the people, or as Mailer Marfhal,#ieaks, pag. t 37 the body of theme were the branches loken of in this place, and Mager Geere, pa?. 16, yielding freely to that which Mailer Martha/ and Mailer gene fay,confeffing that the whole body of beleeving Jewes, and Chriftian ( Gentiles'¡ called by the Apoille one new man, Eph.z. i 5. ) 'are two branches. of one Covenant -root; yet thefé vifible bodies admit of their.fe verall fub- divifions, and are capable of no other ingraffing then that which is vifible; one branch being a body, made up not of one,but ofmany Nations,which were only vifibly grated, and the body of them entitled new, as the Jews before, only filp priviledges of Ordinances. Mafter Tombes goes on; "Neither is it the i" Arminian Tenet , or any errour to fay that, the, body of a "people 31I Mr. Tom is his Rerratation, Ob jeS, , Objete.
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