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lf rt h were faffed away, and there was no moreThese places, I confess, may admit of3 Answer or Solution by those who are of^ c °ntrary Opinion, and are answered by^°$or Hakewil: yet all together, especiallytQ ln 8 back’d by ancient Tradition, amount. a high degree of probability. [ omit thatRom. 8 . 21, 2.2.. The creature itselftil y^a// be delivered from the bondage ofc , *option into the glorious liberty of the font/ ^°d : tho' it be accounted the strongestJ°ofof our Opinion, because of the obscu-v and ambiguity thereof,r. For Antiquity, I have already givenj ^y Testimonies of the ancient Fathers^ Doctors of the Church, and could, iff| C d were, produce many more, the wholej) tear ti of them running this way. And tho'

| . r> Hakewill faith, That if we look back to^her times before S. Hicrome , we shall notfind any one who maintained the,°r!d’s Renovation : yet hath he but twosimonies to alledge for its Abolition ; theJ! e oat of Hilary upon the Psalms, and tiresi out of Clemens his Recognitions. Toij ls destitution of the World aster the Con-^pation many also of the Heathen Phi-w°Phers bear witness ; whose Testimonies' r Barnes hath exhibited in his Theory ofA a x th©

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