34s The Birth- Privïleclge and Covenant- holine ;fly between the Apofiles then and now that will not admit fuch ' divorce or feparation. 3.1 have told him that he makes two contradiflincVecierof birth, p that both cannot be incident to one man, no more then a man rani be a brute beaft,or a brute beafl a bird; when it is plainctitat here is not a diflribution of a genres, into feverai (jecies, but a diilrìbu_ tion of a fubjec`i according to its several adjunc}s, of which I give feveral inflames. He is pleated to deny that it is a dills-Motion of the frsbjetl according, to its adjunEs and gives in the thing in dispute for a reafon. T hen che fame perfora (he (aies) would be born after the fef ,and after the Spirit, which he would tell me to be very abfurd, but that he Would give me no more occasion to fay that he doh injult,whoop and jeere,which I unjuftly (he faies)charge on him. Prefcntly heconfeffes that Ifaac was borne after the flesh in the Noe pilfer that I mention. And I am fore Mailer Tombes will not de- ny that ifaac was borne after the Spirit, and then either truth is ve- ry abfurd, or elfe Mailer Tombes hath quit me from abfurdity;but then he (aies, It is untrue in the eipoflles fenfe, for then he fhou'd be the childe of the bond -maid, not ,by promife, a perfecutor to be call out, not to inherit. To which I answer, that my fente is the Apo- fies fente, and Mailer Tombes bis fente farre from it : For though the Appílle loth indeed Allegorize the text, as Arias Montano renders it, qua Ant allegorizata, yet the Apoflle in the parallel looks at the letter of the Hil}ory, as I have fhewen, not at the Al- legory, which MailerTcfnbes had not a fate. to oppose, either he mutt deny no* and then to be Adverbs of time, or elfe he muff al- low of my interpretation, ljhmael did never as a Júflitiary pro- fecute lfaac under the notion ofa follower of Evangelical righte- oulbefle. 'After fome conceffions in full contradietaon to himself, (I deny not ( faith he) but legal uflïtiaries may be in the vifsdle Church, its I (hmael in Abrahams house, though the Apoflle make the parallel only in the calling out that they might not inherit. Bpolog. page 15.) he faith, If Mailer Blake would gather any thing hence for himfelf, he mutt prove that the t4poflle makesfome to be of the visible Church. by vertue of being born after the flea as their prero, gati ve, which rs as, wide from the ./Qpo files meaning, as the F, all u from the weft, as farrel as the tall is from the Surine riling, he should have fatd, that is the thing that I have proved and do main- taine, I laid it down by way of lyllogifine9 and have an Apologie instead
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