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Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
The duty of a particular examination before the Lords Supper is nothing to our purpose, because 1. that makes a man fitter than he was, but the want of it is not in the cognizance of the Minister always, nor will not justify our refusal of a godly man excepting some apparent gross evils. 2. And it is the necessity of another faith and state that we are enquiring after, which will not be proved by the necessity of an actual examination or excitation of our present grace.
The duty of a particular examination before the Lords Supper is nothing to our purpose, because 1. that makes a man fitter than he was, but the want of it is not in the cognizance of the Minister alwaies, nor will not justifie our refusal of a godly man excepting some apparent gross evils. 2. And it is the necessity of another faith and state that we are enquiring after, which will not be proved by the necessity of an actual examination or excitation of our present grace.
The Major Mr. Blake will easily grant me; and if any other deny it, I prove it thus. 1. It is the same Covenant that both Sacraments Seal; one for initiation, the other for confirmation and growth in grace: therefore the same faith that qualifieth for the one, doth sufficiently qualify for the other. For the same covenant hath the some condition.
The Major Mr. Blake will easily grant me; and if any other deny it, I prove it thus. 1. It is the same Covenant that both Sacraments Seal; one for initiation, the other for confirmation and growth in grace: therefore the same faith that qualifieth for the one, doth sufficiently qualifie for the other. For the same covenant hath the some condition.
2. They are the same heresies that are conferred in baptism and the Lords Supper to the worthy Receiver. Therefore the same qualification (for kind) is necessary for the reception. The Antecedent is commonly granted. Baptism uniteth to Christ and giveth us himself first, and with himself the pardon of all past sins, &c. The Lords Supper by confirmation giveth us the same things: It is the giving of Christ himself, who faith by his Minister, take, eat, drnk; offering himself to us under the signs, and commanding us to take himself by faith, as we take the signs by the outward parts. He giveth us the pardon of sin, sealed, as procured by his body broken, and blood shed.