324 The Birt h-.Privilecisc and Covenant--holine f f e Ch.39 S E C T , , II.. The ground or rife of the Corinthians fcruples wits not from the Apofiles words, a Cor. 5. io. but in all probability, if not certainty, from, Ezra 9, io. Chapters. 'Lich flirre is made about this doubt of thefe Corinthians, from whence it might arife. Mr. Tomb(' at firft would not yield that thefe Corinthians had any fcruple at all about their iflue ; The Corinthians (faith he, Exam. pig. 7o.) had no doubt,' whether their children were unclean, and to be put iway. For the; eflpoflle argues from the uncleanne fje of their chile)re4 , A,t a thing l that appeared abfurd to them ; they took it as a common received principle that their children were haly,as rightly Mr.7homers Goodwin at Bow- Church and prefenly after, /mg. 71, In my apprehenfi_ on it is farre more likely , that the doubt arofe from the Epifile he Wrote before to them mentioned, i Cor. S. 9, 1 o. not to keep company With Fornicators, or Idolaters Which might occ4fon the quefticn, Whether they were then to continue with their unbelieving yoke-fellow. j But he heard fo much from me in my anfwer , that in his Pofl =l feript of his Apology he was content to wave it. As for the occ.a - lion of the fcruple (faith he) fith, neither of our opinions is any other I then conjc5lure, Ilet it pap. But though he were then willin to wave it; yet now having more time to quarrell, he afrefh loth queftion it, and therefore makes it his bufneffe in his whole eigthteenth Setlionofhis Antip.te/bap, 7ofhew (as he layes) the infufj ciency of what Air. Marfhal, A r.Geree, Mr. Blake bring to avoid my Exception t hat it is without proof fuppofed that the doubt anfwered, z Cor. 7.123 r3,14.' didarife from reading the faE1, Ezra .. 9, & i o, and not from the Epifile mentioned, I Cor. 5.9. Here I Mall fiat examine what he hath to fay for what he affirmes, and not deny; and afterwards we thall fee; what he hathagainft that we affirme, and he denies;, To that crjeetilre of his hut now mentioned, in my anfwer I replied feverálthings, pager 33,34 a.. That he knowes that many will not grant that the Apoftle wrote.
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