of the ifJue of Beleevers. inftead of an anfwer. Mr. Tombes bath a notable faculty in i ging of the quefion in agitation. .The A poDles full fcope ( I con - fefie) is another thing.; but I Dill afirmethat he occafonallyex- preffes that from whence this is evidently deduced, namely a di- Dind ion.of births literal, not allegoricai,,which Mr. Tombei never . will be able with any reafon to deny.till it canbe proved that then and now look at the Allegory,not at the Hiftory ; I can prove from ¡ Luk. r3.r 6. that the Ifraelitifh women are daughters of Abraham, thought it is plaine that another thing there was Chrifts maine intention: Secondly, He faith that I fay, Such are in t hebofoale. of the Church, when the e.,4poflfe faith, they perfecute the Church4_and are call out: I defire the Reader to confider, if this had any truth in it ; whether it holds with greater Drength for me or1him? They are cafit out, : and therefore they were in, is my Argument; they are caft out , and therefore were never in, faith Mafter:.Tombes, z TheApoftiefaith no fuch-thing that they are caft out ;. Ifhmael was in theFamily when he perfecuted, though afterwards he was cal out of the Family ; thefe are in the Church , though,-in cafe they continue perfecution, they Thall in fine be cal out; now in prefent they have abeing in it. Thirdly, He faith, Whereas 1 make fuch Abrahams feed, [there - in- joyne with Arminius again§ the truth, and againfl the Apofile; Who (as he a little before tells Matter Marfhal) ; makes this as the ground of his wrefling the. Scripture, that there is a feed orAbraham mentioned, Rom. 4.9,10. Galat, 3. & 4. ui per opera leis ju- flitiam c' falutem confequuntur, againD which he oppofeth Mr. Staines : When the truth is, that he joynes with Arminius in his interpretation againD Mr. Raines, I joyne with. Mr. Bain', againD Arminiw. He interprets thofe that are borne after the fiefh to be under the Covenant of Works, êxam..pag. 50. fo eilrminiue interprets ir;. I interpret it of a naturall feed that inherit outward priviledges, and never reach the birth of the Spirit, fo. Mafter Baines interprets it; The children of the flejli here, are thole only Who incossrfe ofnature came from Abraham, Baines _on Ephefi. pag. Tito. quarto, pag. 67, 68. fol. But Matter Tombes his Reader ,muft leeve that I fymbblize with Arminius in oppofing hiw, and he op- pofeth eílrminiui in fading with him. Fourthly, He faith; Whereas the .Covenant of Grace made the Yy 3 reafon 349
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