Ch.4o. of the ifite of Eeleevers. and fo makes up the parallel. There birth of the flefh is the high - eft honour they attaine, when others have the fame with an addi- tion to it ; it implies two things. i. A birth of nature;a childe by lineal defcent of fuch a father. z. Outward prerogatives that ac- company fuch a birth. 40. makes afoot -fold Here Matter Tombes in his Examen, pig , exception. Firft, he faith,Whtreas the Apof le by being borne after the flefh, meaner not infants borne of beleeving parents , but thole that are under the Covenant of Mount Sinai, who fought after righ- tcoufnefe by the Law,, and not by Faith ; Matter Blake meaner by being borne after the flefh, birth by natural generation, infants borne of Chriftian parents. In my anfvver. I challenged him with a threefold miftake in this Animadverfion of his. r. That he makes the Apoftles parallel to look at the Allegory, and not at the Hiftory ; when the text makes it plaine that the A- poftle looks at the Hitiory, T hen and non are both Adverbs of time, and relate to Ifhmaels jeerer in perfon, not to the maligni- ty of men of the Covenant of works againft thofe of the Covenant of grace ; Here he is wholly filent, and anfwers in his Apology nothing at all. 2. I tell him that he (huts out the literal fenfe both from the Hi- flory and Parallel, and brings in an Aliegoricall fenfe in both,when the contrary in the text is evident, for though Ifhrnael be a type of one under the Covenant of works, yet that Ifbm:ael himfelf was a juflitiary, or that he fought rightcoufnefl'e that way, and perfe- cuted 1 faac under any Inch notion, as a man for Goipel- righteouf- neffe, Scripture bath no one word, or fo much as any colour. To this he anfwers, He (huts not out the literal fe nfe from the Hiftory, but from the Parallel , and that is fo far from being contrary to the text, that it is expreffely faid,Thefe things are Axn2oiís va,an Allegory. I defire the Reader to take notice, what kinde of inter- pretation MaerTombes will put on this text, and who will not have him to paffe for an eminent Scripture - interpreter? (w hen Matter Baxter is a man in his high cenfure defective in it) Then and now are both Adverbs of time,and we muli have a literal then and a myftical now, one of them to anfwer the Hitiory and the other the Allegory ; If my interpretation be thus grofie, I de- fire the Reader to difclaimo it ; either the Hitiory *tuft be wholly looked at in the parallel, or elfe the Allegory there is that barino- Y y 2 ny 347 Exceptions a- gainfl exa- mined.
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