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The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession…
The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pennsylvania, to undermine them both / by the ministers of the Gospel in Boston.The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pensilvania, to undermine them both / by the ministers of the Gospel in Boston.
printed by Richard Pierce, 1690
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Introduction › Reflections on chapt. 10. of the Sacraments &c.
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Sect. 4. Nor doth he treat the sacred Supper with any better language. He grants That Christ had an outward supper of the Pascal Lamb: i. e. that He had the sign without the thing Signified; i. e. that Christ ate the passover hypocritically, which is prodigious Blasphemy. When he saith, Our sacrament hath no inward spiritual signification to us, he arrogates God's Prerogative, who only can judge the heart immediately: and his reason is groundless, for we never denied a real and spiritual partaking in Christ, though we allow it not in the Quakers carnal sense, but spiritually.
When he takes notice of Christ's drinking first, and drinking twice at the Sacrament; he bewrays his ignorance or perverseness; if that place be more obscure, it is to be interpreted by such as are more clear: the other Evangelists mention the order of the Institution; By Christ's first blessing and giving the Bread, and after that the Cup; and Paul, tells us he received the Order from Christ Himself thus, 1. Cor. 11.23. &c. Christ indeed kept two Sacraments at one Meeting, the Passover which He now antiquated, and the Supper which he now instituted; the former ⟨p. 144⟩Cup belonged to the Passover, which also represented Christ, and Jewish Antiquity tell us, it was their custom to conclude that Sacrament with such a Cup.
When he takes notice of Christ's drinking first, and drinking twise at the Sacrament; he bewrayes his ignorance or perverseness; if that place be more obscure, it is to be interpreted by such as are more clear: the other Evangelists mention the order of the Institution; By Christ's first blessing and giving the Bread, and after that the Cup; and Paul, tells us he received the Order from Christ Himself thus, 1. Cor. 11.23. &c. Christ indeed kept two Sacraments at one Meeting, the Passover which He now antiquated, and the Supper which he now instituted; the former ⟨p. 144⟩