Gh,4 2 of the Ow of Beleevers. free Ele?-tion of grace, and according to Gods appointment ; nor is Godl tied, or d fth t se himfelf in the ereEling and propagating his Church to any loch carnal' reifieiñts as defcent from men : Chriftianity r4 no mans birth -right Examen. pag. 74. Proteflant Divines are taken up by the Jefuites in the felt -fame Sol: way for this very thing e,./ Lapide on i Cora 14. faith; a Hance Rim; Ca1vi- Calvin and Beza have drawn their opiuiion of a birth- righteor fneffe, nus Beza and fay, that the children of `Beleevers are holy', and ifaved without fauam dogma de Baptifine ; becaufe on thigaccount that they are Beleevers children, traduce juffieia they are reputed to be borne in the Church , within that Divine Co- l'a`aferunt, dc- centque frdeli- venant ; L will be thy God, and the God of thy feed, Gen. 17, 7. As um f hios propriè children in the Civall Law are accountedfree, Whole parents are ei- efre fanulos ther of them free; but (faith he) they are deceived, and gives his line Baptifmo reafon ; The Church is not a Civill Common - wealth , but fuperna- falvari,quiahoc turall; and there ù no man borne aChriftian, but fJ'iritually neW umo quo unt` flii, borne , and is made holy ;. not civilly, but really, by faith, hope and cen fènturOre in charity infs. fed into the fowl. So Stapleton on the fame words in Ecclefia nati juxta feedw dim vinurn, Ero De/4 tuus fenainis tui, Ge, 17 7. uem admodum jure civili cen f ntur liberi qui ex al- tero parente li- bero nafcuntur5., fed errant. b Feederis in- ter Deum Abraham irriti participes fini , five Judxi ab co carnali ter oriundi , five rhri ftiano um parent= liberi: carnalis generatio vihil faut. c Ad nos dejcendit nonper carnalem generationem parcntum, fed per fpiritualem regeneratio new c hrifti. The Apode know not (faith Mailer Tombes) that God had fo by' Objeti. promife, or other ingagement bound himfel f ; b t he was free as he faid to Mofes after the premife macle to Abraham , to have mercy on whom he would, Rom. 9: z s.. If he means any ingagement of God to conferrefaving graces,or Soi.- habitual qualifications on the natural feed of Beleevers, his words then 359 his Antidotaam, (applying the Spiritual eAntidote againft Calvin: Carnal Poyfon,) faith ; bThat Jewel carnally descended frost'! Abra- ham , or the children of Chriftians may be made partakers of the Co- venant entered of cod With Abraham : Birth according to the fiefh does nothing: So alfo Bellarmin-(peaking of the Covenant with Abraham , faith ; e ft defcends to au not by carnal, but fpiritual gemration ; So that Mafter Tombes bath fucked the fpiritual meaning from the Jefuites, and Mailer Marfha/ holds to the car- nail imaginations of Proteftant Reformers. They produce ma- nyTexts ofScripture,where this Birth - priviledge in their thoughts is evidently fet forth , Jefuitee contradit it , and upon this ac- count it is a éarnali imagination t.) conceive i'
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