3 i 4 The Birth-F riviledge and Covenant- holineffe Ch. 38 fingular `Ferfons, bat the (acne People or Nation is a threed that runs through almoft the whole And enough I fuppofe is fpoken to it; and when hefhall Phew me an invifible Nation(ofwhich he (peaks) from which there may be a breach ; I will either yield up all, or he flail hear more. Till then I (hall look on his words as fuch a unworthy the pen of fuch a writer ; an invi- fible Nation it muff be, a vifible Nation cannot be cut off from the Church invifible, There is much worthy obfervation, No. 23. where he fhewes . more candour then ordinary; thanking Vlafter Gerce for mind- ing him of a diftinaion, and layes; he rejet -ls not his diflinclion of general and particular BlcE ion, and Reprobation; the one of Ro- dies,Societies and Nations; the other of fingular Perlons; neither does . he deny that there is a difference to be made between ei ?ion to be go vifible People, and to the invifible Church.Here divers queries maybe put, whether this general Ele:}ion of Bodies, Societies or Nations be not into the Church vifible , and that of fingular Per - fons into the Church invifible ? So it bath alwayes been concei- ved,and fo Maf}er Tombes Teems to fpeak in this faire mood; how ftands this then with that which he bath in the beginning of his Sedion? That Mailer ÿeree's objection (that the Apofile fpeaks not of particular Perlòns, but of the body of tLe Jewes, and the body of the Gentiles that were Chriflians collectively received into the room of the Jewes broken off,) makes for him ; were the fingle perlons chofen into the vifible Church , anctthe whole bodies and focieties into the invifible ; fo it muff be if it make for him. And in cafe it be true that he faith , Holy ever it be in other places ; yet in that Chapter the EleChon mentioned, verf. S,7 28. rs to grace and glory. How is Calvin on his minde, who on verf. 28, 29, faith expreffely the contrary, as bath been fhewen, and more fully maybe feen ? Let him compare this conceflion with that which I have quoted out of Bucer of the falling off of Na- tionall Churches, and then he may eafily fee Bucer not for him, but againft him. Mailer Gerce fyllogiftically concluding, that the feed of Chri -. !Hans by a pure Gofpel - Covenant, should enjoy outward Church- Malta Tombes Sell. g. replies ,, That is not either formal0 or edtivalently the thing to .be, proved; which _is, that the Chriflian 7ewes
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