Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

Object. What another is commanded to give me, that I may lawfully claim as my Right.

Answ. He is commanded to give it Believers, and to you if you will profess that you are a Believer; but withal you are forbidden to profess it if it be false, and therefore that is a sufficient Bar against your claim, Coram Deo in the Judgement of ⟨p. 369⟩God; though its true that Ecclesia Judice, your claim is such even upon a false profession which they cannot deny. If they be commanded to give it you if you claim, and you not commanded and warranted to claim it, then their duty of giving it upon such claim, will prove no title in you before God.

Answ. He is commanded to give it Believers, and to you if you will profess that you are a Believer; but withall you are forbidden to profess it if it be false, and therefore that is a sufficient Bar against your claim, Coram Deo in the Judgement of ⟨p. 369⟩God; though its true that Ecclesia Judice, your claim is such even upon a false profession which they cannot deny. If they be commanded to give it you if you claim, and you not commanded and warranted to claim it, then their duty of giving it upon such claim, will prove no title in you before God.

The next part of my Proposition doth so clearly follow from what is said, that I need not say any more to prove it, It is your sin to claim and receive that Sacrament, which the Minister may deliver to you upon your claim without sin; because you must judge by heart-evidence, but the Minister cannot.