Ch. ; 9. of the Ow (f° Beleevers. 343 SECT, ÒT r, A vindication of inflrumentall f anti frcation. A Mighty flirre we finde here about inífrurnental fandification, and arguments heaped by MaíferTombes agá<inff it, the moft of them grounded upon thofe two Propofitions(which he would have his Reader beleeve that I confeffe, when he cannot prove,) That all the children Whereof one parent is not fanciified to the o- ther, are uncleane ; none of the children whereof the one is not fan - Flified to the other are cleane, together with the other , That this cs a concluding formal reafon to prove the lawful ae ffe of their abode together ; upon this account he affirmes that it fits not the cafe of perfons difabled from procreation, it makes the Apóffles argu- ment to be from a future contingent, in which he fpends a great 'part of his nineteenth Se &ion. '10 make it appear that it .fits not the cafe of perfons difabled for procreation, he faith, page 15o, z 5r. I appeale to any Logician and Grammarian whether a per- fon may be Paid to be inflrumentally fan :feed for filch an effec`l which he neither doth nor can Produce ? Whether a woman may be Paid to be fantlifed quoad hoc, fo farre as to bring forth an holy, feed, by vertue of the faithof her husband, Who is by age or accident. p tall impotency utterly difahled, naturally from bearing any children, and hath no fupernatural power enabling her thereto f whether fhe may be capable to bring forth an holy feed , who is not capable to, . bring forth any atall f bringing forth an holy feed cannot be with-.. } out bringing forth a feed, and therefore the W oman uncapable to bring forth a feed is uncapable to bring forth an holy feed. And .I will appeale to any, yea the meaneíf Chriffian, whether perfons that have children borne in wedlock - bonds, in filch difparity may not I have their fears and fcruples about them, notwithffanding others in the fame condition of marriage are childlefie, or unable to bring forth children? Whether the feed which came of thole marriages, Ezra to. were not unclean, notwithilanding many fo married' had no children? many of the Prieffs had herein tranfgreff, and it Was but (orme of them,that hadwives by whom they had ¡hildren,Ezra io. 44. And becaufe this is the medium for proof of the Apoífles determination,verf'e 13. that they might live together,., pag. 15 2. 1 he
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