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

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, dr•nk; 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.

3. A member of Christs Church, against whom no Accusation must be brought from some contradiction of his first profession, must be admitted to the Lords Supper: but the new baptized may be ordinarily such (at age); therefore if he can but say, I am a baptized person, he hath a sufficient principal title to Baptism coram ecclesia (I mean such as we must admit) though some actual preparation be necessary) unless he be proved to have disabled his claim on that account either by nulling and reversing that profession, or by giving just cause of questioning it.