What shall their receiuing bee but life from death?
Q. Shall not the generall calling the conuertion of the Iewes bee in occasion of the diminishing and reiec∣tion of the Gentiles?
A. No, but a reuiuing of their faith and a quickning of the word. For the ouerflowing and streaming foun∣taine of Gods mercie and goodnesse is neuer drawne drie, and the more that men vse it, the more it runneth out and sloweth.
Secondly, if that which is euill in it selfe. viz. the fall of the Iewes was sauing to the Gentiles (albeit acciden∣tally and by occasion) much more that which is good off, and by it selfe, shall produce and bring forth good effects.
V. If the first fruites bee holy, then the whole Lumpe, and if the roote, then the branches.
Q. Are they, that are borne of holy parents holy, or can parents deriue and transfuse grace and holinesse in∣to their children?
A. No, for they are borne and conceiued in sinne, and are by nature the children of wrath, but they are holy by couenant and promise onelie, whether they bee Iewes or Gentiles, according to the tennor of