Ch.38. of the if te of Beleevers, 319 account they are kept out from intereft in .the Church invifible. And when this blindeffe (hall be removed, they fhall then be faved. That (hall again be faid which Chrift once affirmed, Salvation is o }'the ?ernes, John 4. 2 2. It is a wearifome thing to follow Matter TombeI through all thefe Mazes. His two next Sec lions ( the eighth anfwering Mr. Baxters Arguments, proving the breaking off and graffing,Rom. II. 17, 20,2.1. are meant of the Church as vifible as fuch ; and his ninth anfwering Matter Baxters Arguments for Infants vifible Church-Memberfhip unrepealed from Rom. I r. 17,19,24,26,27. fo farre above his ftrength to anfwer) are carried on in fuch a ftrange confuf on that it is not eafie to know , and it would weary the Reader to thew what he anfwers , and though many things might be obferved of like nature with thofe already noted; yet for the prefent I (hall let them Rand as they be, to proclaime their own weaknefs;only I am not willing to paffe by what I meet with towards the end of his ninth Section, Anfwering Matter Baxter: Argument. if it were the fame Church that the Jews were broken o ff from which We Gentiles be ingraffed in , then our Infants have right of Memherl ip as theirs had ; and con feguently the Ordi- nance that force Infants j7, tsld be Church- Members is not repealed ; bat it is the fame Olive or Church, that they were broken of from, that we Gentiles are graffed in; therefore our Infants have the fame right of Member/bip. After he bath held forth his ninth Argu- ment drawn from parallel Scriptures before anfwered he fayes, To fpeak truth, it is manifejily falfe, that the ChrifliaanGentiles n'ire graffed into the fame vifible Church with the Jews, for then they fhould have been Circumcifed contrary to the determination, A ets 15. and elfe -where that God bath quite taken away the vifible Church of the Jews, or to that purpofe. This Errour begetting many others, I would MafterTombes would take ita little better into conl deration and fee whether he fpeaks the language of the Scriptures. I have learnt that as we and they have one and`the fame God, one and the fame Faith ; that is,the doctrine of Faith one and the fame Covenant, eat of one and the fame fpiritua 1 meat, and drink of the fame fpiritual drink, one and the fame expected Heaven; fo we are one and the fame Chugch. Let him to that end obferve the manifold ill eraphors by which the Church, ours, and theirs, is fet forth , all of them holding forth their Oneneffe.. Firft,
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