The birth.,- Yriviledge and Covvenant- holine Ch.39 be born of a Duke, he is a Duke; if he be borne of an Earle he is an Earle, muff it be; All men born of Dukes are Dukes, of Earles are Earles ; This with us in England is falfe, bu: of all Dutch men thus borne it is a truth ; yet he would faine make good what he bath laid, The antecedent and the conclufion (faith he) would be all one,wbereas the Propofition proving muft be larger then thePropofat on proved. But Mailer Tombes well knowes, that the Propofition proving is larger; A Propofition expreífely univerfal, is larger in a Logick argument, then either an indefinite or particular, The Propofition by him excepted againft in Logick confideration is as univerfal as that which himfelf puts ; every Englifh man that is noble, is honourable, is an univerfal Propofition, as well as every man that is noble, is honourable; and I never learnt that in the quantity of Propofitions there is magi/ & minks. Matter Tombes proceeded, IWafler Blake faith,The truth of the Apoliles fequel de- pends ón this Propofition ; All the children of an unbeleever are un- cl: ane, uncle ffe for generation he or ,the be fant7ifaed by a beleever; and addes, 1 deny it, for the termes for generation by a beleever are added by him, not in the Apoflle, and fo he changetb the termes. Y pray leave generation out, and fee whether there can be any fenfe in it, unlefre it be underftood ; Their fàndlification will conferre no legitimation, without generation; It I fay not beleever, I mnft, fay husband or wife that is a beleever ; Mailer Tombes faith, Ter it is to be farther noted, that though the Apoftles major be of husband and wife in particular, Mager Blake makes the Propofition on which it depends of unbeleevers in general,and fo by his own pr rtéise jugi- fies me againg his own exception. The Apoftles major is of an un- beleeving husband,and a beleeving wife, and I make the Propofiti- on univerfal according to the capacity of, the fubjett of all belee- ving ti. ives jovned to unbeleeving husbands, not with Mr. Tombes of all husbands and wives. And this is the Apoftles included Pro- pofition which-mutt be the balls of fo many inferences and refuta- tions, when yet all mens Logick (except what Mailer Tombes had Learnt) will utterly difclaime it. SE,cTo
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