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Obieflio»i taken
from
tetimonies
of.Scripture,
anfrered.703
to
haue received
life and
nourifhment
from
the flocke.
Now
that I
may
fit
this fimilitude,wee
are
not
naturall branches
fprung
from
Chrifl,
but
from
efidam,who
is
our
roote,
and
are
tranfplanted
and
ingrafted into Chrill, but
after
a
diuers
manner,fome into
the
vifible
bodie
of
the
Church,
and
as
it
were
but
into
the
outward barke,who
for
want
of
the
attra-
ftiue
vertue
of
faith, doe
receiue
no
life
nor uourifhment
from him: and therefore
though they
feeme
to hue
for
a
time
in
Phew
and
outward
profcflion,yet
in
truth they
are
dead
branches,and
fo
will appeare
to
be
when
the
funne
of
perfecution and
afiliélion fcorcheth and
withereth
them;but
other
branches are
ingrafted into
the
inuifible
Church and
verle
bodie
of
Chrifl the liuing
flocke, and by
a
true and
iiuelie
faith
doe
fucke
good
iuyce and
nourifhment
from
him, whereby
they
line and
bring
forth
fuite. And they who
are thus truely ingrafted
into
Chrifis
bodie,
cannot
refufe
to
bring forth the
fruites
of
good
workes, no more then the
li
fling
branch grafted
in
a
f
uitefull
fáocke,can refufe
to bring
foorth
grapes:for
as
all
other
powers
of
bodie
and
foule
are
regenerate
and
retwed,fo
likewife
their
wil, whereby
they
aremade
not
onely
willing,
but
alto
defir.ous
to bring
forth
thefruiteofgood
workes.
CHAP.
XVIII.
ObieL7ions
agai;af
the dgîtrine.
of
perfiuerance
taken
from
te.
f
rmonies
out
o
f
S.
`.Pa
tie!
Eptf
les,anfwered.
He ninth
place obieá1ed
is
Rom.9.3.
For
I
mould
4
Séc`
.
I,
rrifh my
fel
fe
to
be
feparated
from
C'hrifi
(or,
de-
Rom.9.
;.
Fief
f
uoted
to
eternal'
perdition)
for
my
brethren
in
vvhac fenre
which
are
my
kan/emen
according to
the
f
eJh.
Paul
vvijhetlf
From
N
-vhich
place they thus reafon
:
`Paul
might
bee
to
be
a
aratcd
feparated
from Chrifl and perifh
:
but Paul
was
eleéed
to
faluation: therefore
foine
who
are
eluted
may be
feparated
.
from.ChriP and perifh.
I
anfwere,
that
the
propoítion
is
falfe,neither
Both
it receive any
flrength
from this teflimo-
nie:for
Paul
cloth
not
fay,that
hee
could
bee feparated
from
Chrifl,