Ch.38 of the if ife of Beleevers. Match. 21. 43. Removing the Candle flick, Ephef. 2. s. A 11 no- ting, the aft of God punifhing upon the peoples act of finning, which is of the Church not invifible, but vifible. (a.) For the fimilitude of Cyrus his turning of Euphrates, that he turned the fame River that God created,this will not fervo Mailer Tombes his purpofe ; for Euphrates continues a River of the fame kinde and nature as it was at the firft Creation , and the Church in his expreffion is changed from the invifible body of Chrift, to a vifible company of bare Profeffours. The Church had changed her own Channell. (3.) Matter Tombes indeed grants the queftion , for he con - feffes that the Church is vifible that God breaks off; And what - foever it had been, now it bath no more then a vifible intereft ; to that a vifible Church falls off, and Gentiles are ingraffed into that. which is vifible. SEC T. IV. Animadver (ions upon feveral pa f ages from c'Vfafler Tombes in feveral Sellions of his upen this Argument. THe gdfnteffence of Mailer Tombes his ftrength being (pent in the framing ofthefe ten Arguments, and in their defence; little more needs to be faid to that which followes efpecially feeing it is almoft nothing but a tedious repetition of that which bath been faid; yet fomewhat briefly fhould be faid by way of Animadverfion. As the hufineffe doth not require it, fo neither my ftrength nor leifure,nor hafte of the Preffe will buffer to make any long bufineffe of it. His third Section anfwers Objections of Mafter Geree's againft his Interpretation of the ingraffing, item. It. 17. but his anfwers to Mafter Tombes his Arguments being vindicated from his Vindication ,little need to be fpoken in de- fence of his ob je.eions. That wilde affertion, pag. i 9. That the branches here broken of from Eleflon, and true: Faith, and the invifible Church in which .they were frith this limitation ; stnderfianding it not of the fame S f Alga/4r 0
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