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

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.

But whereas Mr. Blake doth make it so strange that a Minister may lawfully administer that Sacraments to a man which Coram Deo, he hath no right to (against which he is so confident) I would demand of him whether Coram Deo, or Deo Judice, a man have true title to Sacraments without any faith at all, I mean a downright Infidel or Heathen? If he say, No; then he yieldeth all the cause. For if this Heathen will so far play the Hypocrite as to profess a Dogmatical Faith (as he saith) or a saving faith (as the Church saith) then he will confess that it is the Ministers duty to give him the Sacrament upon his claim; and so he must give it to a man that Deo Judice hath no true right to it. But if he say that such an Heathen hath right to it Deo Judice, I shall not stand now any further to confute him, then 1. to challenge him to prove his Title: And 2. to advise him to be cautelous how he undertaketh to justify his title and claim at the bar of God when the reckoning comes, and these matters must be reviewed.

But whereas Mr. Blake doth make it so strange that a Minister may lawfully administer that Sacraments to a man which Coram Deo, he hath no right to (against which he is so confident) I would demand of him whether Coram Deo, or Deo Judice, a man have true title to Sacraments without any faith at all, I mean a downright Infidel or Heathen? If he say, No; then he yieldeth all the cause. For if this Heathen will so far play the Hypocrite as to profess a Dogmatical Faith (as he saith) or a saving faith (as the Church saith) then he will confess that it is the Ministers duty to give him the Sacrament upon his claim; and so he must give it to a man that Deo Judice hath no true right to it. But if he say that such an Heathen hath right to it Deo Judice, I shall not stand now any further to confute him, then 1. to challenge him to prove his Title: And 2. to advise him to be cautelous how he undertaketh to justifie his title and claim at the barr of God when the reckoning comes, and these matters must be reviewed.