28 The Firth - rîviledge and Covenant- holinefe Ch.39 " her away ; would it not the rather follow, that Fornication dif- " folves not the Marriage knot and fo my Uncle Wheatley muff " the rather have retrac`led that pofition that it did , if by " my acquaintance with him fooner this had been fuggefted unto "him. Undoubtedly it had fo followed and Mafter Tombes could not have held him from Retrac ation fuppofing hfs errour, '(if an errour) but would have delivered him from his errour. Had he known an Apoftolick precept , that a man mutt live with his fornicating wife , he had not run upon that opinion , that A- dultery difrolves the Marriage -knot. Matter Tombes ( it feemes ) intends here to take his leave with me, as to this Text at leaft, and therefore fay es; what follower is anfwered in my Poftfcript ; which I thought then, and fill think it anfwer enough to Mailer Blakes Anfrer to my Letter ; Butyet I thall not fo take leave of him. If he then judged it a fufficient anfwer ; why bath he then borne me in hand fo long to the con- trary, and tell mein the Tofifcript it felf, page tit. whether this anfwer of Mailer Blake be frnelty for Argument, 1 hope in time to examine. I fhall requeft no farther favour of my judicious Reader, then to read them both and then determine. But though I may wait for an anfwer, or fuch a trial that he bath threatened; yet prefently I have his cenfure, delivered in fuch language , as though he were not writing Divinity-Controverfies, but driving a trade for Apples and Oyflers. And though he had promifed in Print in time to fay no more yet (his memory failing) now he fay es , He had not fair' /o march as he had done heretofore , had not Mager Vines and Mailer Calamy by their vain`erackings nece ita- ted him to it. Some I fuppofe will queftion Maier Tombes his in- geny in this paffage. There is an opinion of thefe two men to be Mafter Tombes his equals in critical families,though it be farre from his own judgment, and when they thall hear from him (which perhaps they would not otherwife Kaye known) that men of their repute ; not only approve, but commend ; yea as he phrafes it, crack , They will conceit fomewhat in it; And he layes ; So neither would l have added this but to fop the menthes (if it may be) of thole that call on me to anfwer him, who I think is fu fficiently anf ,ered. So that it appeares that force think it not yet done, teeing they call on him to do it ; and whereas he waits . him when .force judicious perfon fhewes me wherein my anfwer to
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