The Birth-Priviledge and Covenant- holinef e Ch,42 then carry reafon with them. But neither he nor his great friends 'will learne to diftinguifh between Gods condkional Covenant (contained in priviledges of Ordinances) and habituall Paving graces , otherwife they know fromMofe,, that God exercifed this freedome in making choife of Ifrael above all Nations, and that the Apoftle knew , and in the fame Chapter lets us know, Loom. 9.4. that to them pertained the Covenants , and that this was their prerogative for Birth- priviledge, Ron,. 3. r. We fay the fon ofa Free-man is Free, the fon ofa Noble -man is Noble we never faid that the fon of a Learned-man is Learned ; we fay that the Pon ofa Chriftian is a Chriftian , as to intereft in Ordi- nances ; We never laid that the fon of a Regenerate man is Re- generate. Objea. Matter Tombes is 'leafed to fay, If this were true that the Co- venant of Grace is a birth - right-priviledge , then the children of Be- lcevers are children of Grace by nature ; for that which is a birth - right- priviledge, isa priviledge by nature. And if its Mas`ier Blake faith, pag. 6. of his book, Chrifiianity is hereditary that at the childe of a Noble-man is Al able, the ch. ilde of a Free -man is Free, the childe ofa Turke is a Turke, of fa Jew a Jew, the childe of a C'hrifii an is a Chrifiian. ThenChrifiians are borne Christians, and not made Chrifiians and hotu are they then children of wrath by nature; which whether it may not advantage the Pelagians, and deniers of Originall Inne; it concernes thole that ufe fuck fpeeches to confider, Examen page 53. Sol. To this I anfwer. 1, It concernes thofe that preffe thefe ig- norant, or rather malicious objeaions, to fee how Charnier, `Pa- reus and other Proteftant Writers anfwer them, when they are in their very words urged by Jefuites. If Mafter Tombes cana reconcile Galat. 2. i 5. with E'phef. a. 3. then he bath an anfwer. The Apoftle was by birth of the people of God in Covenant, and yet by nature a childe of wrath. 2. It concernes Matter Tombes to enquire whether I have any fuch words ; I have given him the charge already, pag.27. of my Anfwer, and he bath replied, Apolog. pag. r 20. Thefe words Chriflian; and this is all one, elf to fay Chriftianity is h are Maher Blakes Birth- priviledge, pag. 6. The priviledges which in Family or Nation are hereditary are conveyed from Parents to ¶ofierity, the childe of a Noble -man is Noble; fo the childe of a reditary. The w °r -a i
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