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Obieïfions taken
from
teeimonies
of
Script
asre,anfirerec&
yc
z
The eight
place
obiec
-ted is
Iob.
r.
5.2.
aerie
branch
that
§
Sec
`.5.
beareth not
fruste
in
mee bee
taketh
From
which
tohn
i S.a.
place
they thus
reafon
:
All
the branches which
are
in
Of
true
ad
Chrif} are
eleòted
and indued with true faith
:
but
force
"inf."
tray-
branches which
are
in
Chrift bearing not
fruite,
are
cut from
cbes.
his
bodie,and
fo
periíh:therefore
force
who
are
elected,
and
indued
with
faith,may
be feuered
from,
Chriii
and
fo
peril
h.
I
anfwere,that the propofition
is
falfc;for
a
branch
in
Chrift
is
nothing
elfe
but
a
member
of
the
Church,
and
both
of
them generally vnderflood,doe
f
gnifie fuch an one
as
is
out-
wardly
admitted into the Church,
which
is
the
bodie
of
Chriff,by the
Sacrament
of
baptifrne, and
being outwardlie
called by the
tninifterie
of
the
word, doth
make profeflìon
of
the
doìrine
of
faith therein
taught,
and
communicateth
in
the
vie
of
the Sacraments. And
fo
generally to
be
ingraf-
tedinto Chrift,
is°
to
bee
ioyned
as
a
member to the
vifible
Church.
Now
as
oftnembers,fo
alto
of
branches
there
are
two
forts; for foine
are
not
only ioyned
to
the
vifible
Church
by
the Sacrament
ofbaptifine,
and
by
an
outward
profeflìon
of
the
faith,
but
alto
are
truely vnited vnto
Chrift their head,
and ingrafted
into
the
inuiGble
Church by the fpirit
ofGod
and
a
liuely
faith, and
fo
communicating
of
the
life
and ver-
tue which
is
in
Chrift their head,
and lucking
lively-
iuyce
from this diuine and holie
roote,
doe
liue in
him and
bring
forth
the fruites
of
godlinefie and righteoufneffe. And
who-
foeuer
are
thus
ingrafted into Chrift
Iefus,
they (hall
euer
remaine fruitfull
branches, and
bee neuer cut
offand
wither,
nay rather
Chrift
the
good
husbandman wil purge and prune
them,
and
continually water them
with
the
dew
ofhis
grace
and holy fpirit, ÿ they
may
bring forth
fruit
in
more
abun-
dance,
as
it
is
in
this
place.
So
he
faith,
verf.
r
6.
that whom
he
bath
chofen,
hee
bath ordained
that
they fhould
bring
forth fruite,
and
that
their fruit
fhould
not
fade and
wither,
but
remaine, and continuallie flourifh like
a
tree planted
by
a
riuer
of
waters,as
it
is
lnfalm.
z
.3
.
P(alm.
;.
But there
are
other
members and branches
which
are
on-
4,äE'ci.6.
ty
intertained into
the
vifible
Church,and accounted
mem-
bers
thereof,
becaufe
they haue receiued the facrament
of
baptifrne,.