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Obiett
ions agrain/a
perfeuerance to
en
from
example.r,an
f73
5
the
wilderneílè. From which
they
thus
conclude
:
litesin
the
urt-
derne
e
All
the
Ifraelites
in
the
wildcrneffe
were
indued
with
f
faith,and
were iuílified and
regenerate
:
But
force
of
them loll their
faith,
fell
from grace and
.e-
rifhed
Therefore
force
who
are
indued with faith,
iuílified
and
regenerate,may
fall
from grace and
perifh.
But
ifvvee
conclude
their 'argument
in
right
forme.,
it
fhould
be
thus
:
All
the
Ifraelites
in
the wilderneffe
loll their
faith,fel from
grace and
perifhed:
But
force
of
them
were
indued with
faith,iuflified
and
re-
generate
Therefore
force
indued with faith,
iuílified
and
regene-
rate,
may
fall from grace and perifh.
But to
let
paffe
the
forme
I
anfwere
their argument, and
denie
that
all the Ifraelites
were
indued
with
true faith,
lu-
ílified
and
fan&lified.
The
which they endeuour to prooue
by
the
Paying
ofthe
Apoílle,
i.Cor.zo.2.3:4.vvhere it
is
laid,
z.Cor.io,
that
all
the
Ifraelites were
bapt
:fed
unto
9tIof
sin
the cloud,
:.3.4
and
in
the
fea,
and did all eate the
fame
Jirituall
meate,
and
drinhethe
fame
drinke,
for
they
drank
of'
that
rode
which
fotto3red
thé,and't
hat
rocke
m
Chrif
.From
Which
place
they
inferre
;that
feting
they did
all
feede
of
this fpirituall
meate,and drinke
of
this
fpirituall
drinke,
which could
no.
otherwife be
done, but
after
a
fpirituall manner,namely,
by
a
true faith,
that
therefore they
muff
needs haue this
true
faith,
whereby
feeding
vpon
Chrifl,
they were
iuílified
and
fanclified.
I
anfvvere,
that
by fpirituall meate wee
are
to vn-
derfland the
Manna,
wherewith
they were fed, and the
wa-
ter which
ifhued
out
of
the rocke,which
were called
fpiritual,
not
onelybecaufe they
were miraculouflie
Pent
from heauen,
and forced
out
of
the rocke
by
vertue
ofGods
fpirit; but
al-
fo
becaufe
they were
types
and
facraments
of
the fpirituall
nourifhment
ofour
foules
with
the
bodie
&
blood ofChrifl;
cuen
as
the bread
and wine
are
fail
to bee fpirituall meate
and drinke
in
the
vfe
of
the
facrament,
not
becaufe
they
are
fo in
their owne nature,but
only
as
they
are fet
apart for
this
fpirituall