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().Secrí.7.
O/a
twofold
lining in
the
vine
Chrif
.
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Obieftions taken
from teßi
lo<ics
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baptifine,
and make
an
outward
profeflìon
of
religion,
though
in
their hues they denie the power
thereof;
which
notwithflanding
were neuer
truely vnitcd
veto
Chrifl, nor
ingrafted into
the inuilible
Church, being altogether
clef-fi-
nite
of
the
bond
ofthis
vnion,
the
fpirit
ofGod
and
a
liuelïe
faith,
and confequently hauing no communion
with
our
head and
roote Chrifl
Iefus,
nor receiuing
any life
and ver-
tue
from
him,
they
are
dead and
rotten
tnetnbers,and
bran-
ches
which hauing
only
a
thew
and
fhape
of
an
outward
profcflïon,and
wanting
life,
bring foorth
no fruites
of
true
godlineffe, and therefore
!hall
cut off,not from the true
bodie
of
Chrifl the
inuifible
Church, into
which they were
neuer planted
and
ingrafted,
but
from
the
outward body
of
the
vifïble
Church
whereof
they
were members
in
(hew
and
profefíion.
The which
is
done when
as
their vizard being
pulled
of,they
are
difcouered
to
be
but
meere hypocrites.
But
here
it
is
obie
&ed,that it cannot
bee called
abranch
which
bath not
fometime lined
in
the
vine: for branches are
not
tranfplanted,but
doe
grow
in
the
vine
not
dead
but li-
uing,
and
fo
the faithful! are
borne againe in Chrifl, and
when they
arc
borne
againe,
they are
not
dead
but
liuing:
and.yet
notwithaanding
if
after
they
are
borne againe,
they
refufe
to
beare
the fruit
of
good
workes, they
are
cut
off and
peri
fh. I
anfwere,
that
there
is a
twofold lining
in
the
vine,
in fhew and outward appearance, and indeede and
truth;
the
firfl
is
common
to the hypocrite, who
after
a fort may
be
laid to bee ingrafted
into the bodie
of
Chrifl,and
in
re-
f-Pea
ofhis thew
and
outward
profeílion to
liue in
him;
but
the
other
is
properand
peculiar
to the faithfull,
who
are
the
truc branches.
But
all
branches
doe
firfl
truelyliue
in
their
vine
before
they
can
die and
wither.
I anfwere,
that
this
is
true
of
all
naturali
branches, which originally fpring
out
of
the flocke,
but not
of
thofe which
are
rranfplanted
and in-
grafted
:for we
know
that
fame
dons
being
ingrafted
into
another flocke,doe
receiue no life
and
nourifhment
from
it,
and
yet
notwithflanding they
freme
fora
time to liue,
till
the heate
of
the
fin-Inc
fcorching
them,
for
want ofinward
moifiure they
wither, and
fo
appearc
to
be
dead,
and neuer
to