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Nay, I find a very learned Divine to affirm, that the Ancients expounded this place no otherwise. None, saith he, that ever I met with expounded it of Federal Holiness, till the Controversy of the Anabaptists in Germany arose.

Nay, I find a very learned Divine to affirm, that the Antients expounded this place no otherwise. None, saith he, that ever I met with expounded it of Federal Holiness, till the Controversy of the Anabaptists in Germany arose.

And since Mr. Burkitt is so ingenuous as to confess, that the unbelieving Husband is sanctified in respect of Conjugal Relation to the Wife in a way of Marriage, in which so far he agrees with those Learned Men; this being so, how comes he to assert 'tis Federal Holiness that is said to be in the Children?

And by what we say, it appears, it is not a racking of the Scripture o maintain a private Opinion; and tho the word [holy] refers here to what we affirm with others, yet the Apostle speaks truly; tho it is granted the Children of Heathens born in lawful Wedlock, are no more Bastards than the Children of Christians For if the Marriage were made void, it would render their Children to be unclean, or base born. And what tho the Greek word does signify in so many places, as Mr. Burkitt saith, spiritual Sanctification and Separation to God; yet show us, say I, where it signifies External, Relative, Federal Holiness in the New Testament: yet as one observes, the word is not bound up to that sense as he seems to intimate; for [Greek or Hebrew] is used for Castimoni•m ser••, as Stephanus in his Thesaurus observes out of Demosthenes, [Greek or Hebrew], where a Priest of Bacchus speaks thus, [Greek or Hebrew], I am holy and pure from the Company of Man: and the words [Greek or Hebrew], chaste, to be chaste,