340 The Birth - f riviledge and Covenant - holihe f e Ch.3 9' is a reafon, 4ntipæd, pag, I I o. But I would faine learne how he can make it up into a reafon ; he muff thus draw it up, Whom a man in marriage - fociety may have hopes to fave from idolatrous wayes, with fuch a one he may continue marriage- fociety ; But a beleevtng husband in marriage- fociety may have hopes to fave his . unbeleeving wife from idolatrous wayes , Ergo. This Propofition as to fuch a conclufion is. r. Vaine ; for,, though there were no fuch hopes, yet marriage - fociety is to be continued, Gentilifine be. ing not of the fubflance of marriage, which MaflerTombes feernes . to yeeld, Examen. pag. r21, 2. This Propofition is falfe as to this purpofe; The incefluous Corinthian might have had hopes to have converted his fathers wife,(if a Heathen) and yet fuch hopes would not conclude the lawfulneffe of their fociety together; Fierod might have had like hopes to have converted his brother Philips wife, and yet this was not objected againfl Yaw BaptifJ, and had it Beene objected, it had beene frivolous, We have many cafes put about marriage, if fuch an argument would ferve the turne, it would fálve them all. And for verfe 14. though I can- not fay but in cafe it were made up (into Mailer Tombes his fenfe) into a reafon of the former conclufion, it would containe .a truth, and fo farre might paffe in the way of a reafon yet I have many material exceptions againfl ir. r. From the thing it felf, it would b reafon vaine, Your married condition is lawful, elfe you child ren rlw re &aflards ; what childe in Corinth (as was hinted when I fpake of the Apoflles words,as in themfelves that knew the right hand from the left) but well underflood it ? There is not a boy that plaies in the flrcets, but knowes that children borne out of wedlock are baflards. There is a Book publifhed, putting; it to the queflion, and difputing it, whether marriages between profeffors of the true religion and Infidels, and fo of Papifls with Proteftants, be not ab initio null,and they to be feparated ? In cafe any (hall now come in with this argument for the Negative, that they are not null, and to conclude their continuance; If fuch marriage be null, their children are baftards:put they are not baflards, Ergo the marriage is not null ; the Author or any other might be brought to a finde, not to convr on. As Erafmu3 in his cenfiire of thole firppoliti- tious fpuriouspiftles that have pall with many for Pauls to Se- neca,charges them with no falfe doc`frine, but is bold to fay, I fee nor:
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