.F346 The Birt h- Privilerlge and Coven ant-boline 1fe C-11.4 o etes.t Ana- Wed. The argument deduced from , it... CHAP. XL. Gal. . 29. Vindicated. the next place that text Gal, 4.29. (as to this point of ex- JN tent of the Covenant) is to be examined, s then he that was borne after the f efh persecuted him, that was borne a ter the Spirit, even fo it is now. For the clearing of which 1 have obfervcd.here- tofore in the Apollles words there. Firft, the Hiftory. Secondly, the Myftery by way of Allegory. Thirdly, the parallel by the Apoftle obferved and applied to his own times. The Hifiory we - finde verfe 22, 23. It is written that Abraham had two fonnes, the one by a bond -maid, the other by a free - woman, but he who Was of the bond-lkoman was borne after the fie fh, but he of the free -woman was by promife. The Myftery by way of Allegory, verfe 24, 2y, 2E.. which things are an eflllegory, for there are the two Covenants, the one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar ie Mount Sinai in Arabia , and anfwereth to Hierufalem which noW is, and is in bondage with her children. But Hierufalem which is above is free, which is the mother of iî all. The Parallel in there words, But as then he that ales borne after the flefh perfecnted him that wàs;borne after the Spirit, fo it is now. From whence this argument is drawn, If there yet remairl'e in the boforne of the Church children borne after the flab, fo that diflinntion of births . ( "as applied to e,lbrahams feed) í}i11 bath place among Chriflians, then there is that priviledge of birth-ho -- linefl.e Rill remaining, The confequence is plaine,` birth of the flab in the Church gave a Church- intereft The Apoftles'kinf- men after the flea), Rom. 9.3. were all Church - members. That there is fuch a birth yet remaining, the text quoted makes cleare; Ifhmael was in Abraham;, family, and was by birth of his family, and did perfezute in the fa nily, as the Apoftle fhewes out of Scri- pture .Hillary, men in the Church, borne in the Church, by birth right of the Church, do perfecute, as upon experience he affirmes, and
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