of the if re of 8cleever,r. 36¡1 words the Reader fees are not mine; yet he puts them in a diftinc`f letter as mine , and flill faith they are my words. For the fenf in which he quotes them he very well knew, Iabhorreit; h urges it for an inheritance of Chriftian graces , or elfe what bat. it to do with the Pelagian: ? he quotes two places of mine in -hi Apology, pag. 156. where I expref ely difclaime it,though to rend er me to his party a man ofcontradidtions, he prefently feignes words, wherein I may be thought to affirme it. This ufage I finde from Matter Tombes. He farther addes ; To conceive that it is in Gods Churches as in other Kingdomes and after the ,L in cs ofNations, is a feminary of dangerous fuperfitions and erronrs. Iris well that Matter 7ornbes path learned an Artifice from !there fuperftition- hating Jefuites to keep out the inlet of fuper- ftition among us : And ifthere were no parallel held betwixt the Church of God and other Kingdomes after the manner of the Law of Nations , but fuch that are Seminaries offuperftition ; he may do well to acquaint us how it comes to paffe, that the Church in Scripture bath the name of a City, Family, Kingdome? Si- militudes ever carry force refemblance. If this were the alone ground on which the Birth - priviledge of Chriftians were bot- tomed, he had faid fomething; but being only an illuftration, in his cenfure he is over- lavifh. Similitudes indeed maybe over - ftreched beyond their reach and if he had laid down rules to declare where the Similitude holds, and where it holds not (as I have done in the Birth - priviledge) and made it appear that it holds not in that for which I produce it he had faid fome- what to the purpofe; read 1Llal. r. 6, 8, 14. and tell me whether there be any ground laid for dangerous fuperd ftitions. Thirdly, It is fo in all other Religions, they keep up their pri- viledge of intereft in the worfhip of their Anceflors. The childe of a Turke is a Turke, thetchilde of a Pagan is a Paga; the childe of a Jew is a Jew : And it is the Apoftles Argument in like cafe refpef}ive to Ecclefiaftical communion, that becaufe Sacramental communion rendered them one Ecclefìaftical body with Chrifti- ans; o communion in worfhip will make one body with thofe of other Religions, r Cor. 10. 17, 18, 19. See Yaræus on the words, and Cudwarths True notion of the Lords Supper. There A a a are e e h s pbje Birth- interet 'dercends in all !other Religi- ons. Sol.
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