A26864:587
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 64.
Mr. Bl. The major here is not sealed; for the Sacraments seal to the truth of no general Propositions, but they seal with application to particular persons to whom the Elements are dispensed, as Protestant Writers have defended against Papists, and put into the definition of a Sacrament, it seals then that which supplies the place of the minor in this tender, which is Gods gift of Christ. In the Sacrament Christ saith, This is my body; he saith this is my blood; and this is said to all that communicate. Now whether this gift of the body and blood of Christ be Absolutely or Conditionally sealed, will be easily resolved. The outward Elements are given on this ⟨p. 118⟩condition that we receive them, that we eat and drink them. We have not Christ Sacramentally, till we have taken and eaten and drunk the Elements. We have not Christ in the Sacrament before our Souls h•ld f••th that which answers to this eating and drinking. That which all do not partake of that receive the Sacrament, is not Absolutely but Conditionally sealed in the Sacrament. None can miss of that which God absolutely grants and absolutely sealeth. But all do not partake of Christ in the Sacrament; therefore he is not Absolutely but Conditionally sealed in the Sacrament.
Mr. Bl. THe major here is not sealed; for the Sacraments seal to the truth of no general Propositions, but they seal with application to particular persons to whom the Elements are dispensed, as Protestant Writers have defended against Papists, and put into the difinition of a Sacrament, it seals then that which supplies the place of the minor in this tender, which is Gods gift of Christ. In the Sacrament Christ saith, This is my body; he saith this is my blood; and this is said to all that communicate. Now whether this gift of the body and blood of Christ be Absolutely or Conditionally sealed, will be easily resolved. The outward Elements are given on this