Chap. 3 9 of the ¿fie of Beleever . over - topping his adverfaries with arguments, but perplexing them with confu(edneffe,which he fees,and would faine put off the blame to Mailer c_Marfhall. Though I intend not to vie with him in length, yet I do not doubt in a lefle fcantling to try his flrength. His arguments againft our interpretation of Covenant-holineffe and uncleanneßè, we {hall examine, being attended, as he faies, with many abfurdities ; in the meane ppace let me tell him, that his interpretation,underflanding the Apoille as he doth, That the unbeleeving husband is fanllified in the Wife, &c. that is his fo ciety with her is lawful , not adulterous , e fe your children were unclean, that is, baftards, illegitimate, but note they are holy, of a birth legitimate, not fpurious, renders the Apoftles reafoning here in this place. i . Childifh. 2, Incongruous. 3. Untrue. I. Weak and childifh, to tell the Corinthians if their marriage- r. Weak and: fociety were adulterous', then their children were baftards, if their marriage were nuli,children were illegitimate,this is too low a way of reafoning, fuch that every childe well knew before the Apoftle told them. In that great conteft about the marriage of Henry the eighth with the relit of his brother e4rthur, (in which the judgement of fo many Univerfities was deúred) if one had argued, that in cafe this marriage be a nullity, then the Princeffe is not legitimate: But the Princeffe is legitimate; Ergo the marriage is no nullity) fie would have been looked upon as a ftrange difpu- tant. 2. Incongruous,to bring phrafes fully anfwering the Church- z Incongruo flare and condition of either parents, beleeving, unbeleeving, (which in the Scripture is holy and uneleane) and yet to under- fland them of holineffe, and uncleanneffe of another kinde, of legitimation and baftardy, if they may be (as I think they never were) fo called, is meetly incongruous Th.t thefe words fully anfwer the Church -ftate of parents, and the Church -flate and con- dition which the children derive from them, is plaine in that pa. rallel text, Gal, 2.15 . ?ewes by nature, that is, holy by birth from beleeving parents, not finners of the Gentiles, not unclean by birth fromunbeleeving anceftors ; So Matter Cartwright on thefe words in his anfwer to the Rhemilts.- if you will know what thrá holuseffe of children new.borne. u, the Apoflle telleth you,it is through the Covenant to be a Jew by nature, or birth: and if yoti will farther underf and what this uncleannefre of children U, the Apoile -'in the U` u_. 3 fay.. 333
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