XI. It also made them obnoxious to feverer Punishment, if they failed themselves in performing their own Duty.
XIII. Particularly in regard of the unclean Sacra ufed by the
Heathen Conforts, either in the Office it felf of Matrimony,
or in their Family Religions. 34
XIV. Dinah denied to Shechem, till he was Circumcifed. 38
XV. The Ethiopian pretended to be married by Mofes, was
Zipporah, who though a Midianitefs, was a Profelyte, and
therefore of the Peculium.
XVI. Samplon's Marthage of a Philistine, of an unholy
Nation, had been unlawful, if God himself had not dif-
penfed with it, as a Prophetick Symbol. 46
XVII. The Marriages with the Nations, in the time of Ezra
and Nehemiah, were a defilement of the Holy Seed, and
Piacular. 47
XVIII. The fame Notions concerning the inconfiftency of Mar-
riages out of the Peculium with the Holy Seed, continue to
the times of the Apostles.
XIX. The Liberty of Divorces in the Apoftles Age. They who propofe the Cafe to St. Paul, thought themselves obliged to Separate from their Infidel Conforts.
SE XX. The Apostle himself Answers, on a fuppofition of the truth of thofe Principles, which made Marriages out of the Pecu-
lium unlawful. That Age could not have denied Infant-
Baptifm.
XXXI. It is rather the Defign of the Gospel, to prove both
Peculia one, from this Dependence.
XXXII. The Reasonings of the Apostle fuppofe, and prove,
that the believing Gentiles are of the Seed of Abraham. 88
XXXIII. How this Reasoning, from the Holy Seed of the Pa-
triarchs, was fitted to the defign of the Gospel. 91
XXXIV. Marriages of the Jews with any other Nation be-
fide their own, was unlawful, on account of their Uncir
cumcifion. 95
XXXV. And as it was a mingling of the Holy Seed. 98
XXXVI. The fame Reafonings hold under the Gospel, concern ing all who are out of the External Communion of the True Church.
XXXVII. All who were out of Epifcopal Communion, are
reckoned is unclean by Ignatius, in the myftical uncleanness,
which is allowed to have place under the Gospel.
XXXVIII. They are alfo according to his Doctrine, under the
Power of the Devil. 104
XXXIX. Though we could not give the true Reafon, why a
Convert fanctifies a Marriage before Converfion, but an Ori-
ginal Conftitution does not fanctify the Marriage contracted
after his receiving Chriffianity, that would not hinder `but
that both thefe Decifions may be very true.
XL. Tertullian's Account of this Explained, as to the Sancti
fication of the unbelieving Confort, and Common Seed for
the fake of the believing Confort, at the time of the Con-
verfion of the Believer.
XLVIII. Against the Contracts for dividing the Children, according to the Communion of the Parents. The whole Right of Family-Religions was originally in the Husband. 138 XLIX. He cannot alienate the Right, whilst he defigns to be a Husband, for himself.
L. He cannot alienate it, on account of the Right his Pa triarchal Ancestors have in him.
Ibid. LI. He cannot alienate it, on account of the Right God has in it, for fecuring the performance of Duty Covenanted to HimSelf. 143 LII. He cannot, on account of the Right Chrift has in Him /felf, as Head of the Mystical Marriage contracted with him in bis Baptifm.
LIII. Men of the Peculium cannot give the Women to be dif pofed of by them, to Husbands out of the Peculium. 149 LIV. The Obligations on Women, otherwife free, that will invalidate their Marriages out of the Peculium.
150 LV. The First Peculium the most perfect of the kind, and ftill obliging.
152 LVI. The Land inhabited by the Pofterity of Seth was Holy Land, like that of the Jewish Peculium. LVII. The Pofterity of Seth taken for the People of Jehovah, as the Ifraelites were afterwards.
LVIII. That feems to have been meant by their being called by the name of Jehovah, in the LXXII.
LIX. The Children of Seth called Sons of God and Angels. 163 LX. St. Peter, and St. Jude, feem to have had their Accounts of the fall of their Angels, from the Book of Enoch, which was a Narrative of the fall of these Children of
Seth. LXI. The 'Efenfoeg of the Pofterity of Seth, were Angels! The Traditions of the Book of Enoch were Elder than the Apoftles. LXII. The Title to be called the Sons of God, arifes from having the Divine Spirit. 176 LXIII. This Title though common to Chrift Himself with the true Peculium, is notwithstanding very confiftent with his being the Son of God in a higher fenfe than they. 182 LXIV. The Pofterity of Seth had the Divine Spirit. 186 LXV. That Spirit was the fame with the Second Adam from Heaven.
189 LXVI. God abdicated the Pofterity of Seth, by no longer giving his Holy Spirit to their Pofterity. LXVII. The Doctrine of the New-Teftament is the fame in the forementioned Particulars. LXVIII. These Angels were, according to the Doctrine of the Scriptures, of a heavenly Criginal, not only Aerial 198
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