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

The 3. Argument is, [The Law and the Gospel in their joint strength may convert, &c. But in the Lords Supper there is Law and Gospel, &c. Ergo.] Answ. 1. What may possibly fall out is nothing to the Question of Lawful Demanding or Giving. 2. There's neither Law nor Gospel in a wicked mans unjust Demand and Reception, and Lying signal professing to take Christ when he doth not: but Law and Gospel is against it. 3. The Law and Gospel which you mention as annexed to the reception are separable: and all you can thence prove, is, that a wicked man may be converted by seeing and hearing, and therefore may see and hear: but that's nothing to receiving. 4. Nor will it prove that he may see and hear, because its possible he may be converted by it, because the same Gospel is in its season with due application to himself to be preached to that end; and Christ hath not appointed his beholding the Application to another to be the commanded means for such ends.

The 3. Argument is, [The Law and the Gospel in their joynt strength may convert, &c. But in the Lords Supper there is Law and Gospel, &c. Ergo.] Answ. 1. What may possibly fall out is nothing to the Question of Lawful Demanding or Giving. 2. There's neither Law nor Gospel in a wicked mans unjust Demand and Reception, and Lying signal professing to take Christ when he doth not: but Law and Gospel is against it. 3. The Law and Gospel which you mention as annexed to the reception are separable: and all you can thence prove, is, that a wicked man may be converted by seeing and hearing, and therefore may see and hear: but thats nothing to receiving. 4. Nor will it prove that he may see and hear, because its possible he may be converted by it, because the same Gospel is in its season with due application to himself to be preached to that end; and Christ hath not appointed his beholding the Application to another to be the commanded means for such ends.

The 4. Argument is from the Heart breaking use of the Sacrament by aggravating sin, &c. Where the London Ministers are cited, &c.) Answ. The same answer as to the last may serve. And 1. A wicked mans Demand and reception hath no humbling use, (but as any Lye or other sin hath) though his Beholding may. 2. Its an exalting use that this humbling use prepareth for, to the Receiver: seeing therefore the wicked are uncapable at present of the exalting use, they must have that humbling word delivered by it self which they are capable of, and not conjunct with that which they are uncapable of. 3. The London Ministers speak not of the first humiliation in the passage of the New Birth, but of subsequential, at least, as to the first Intention of the work; and if of conversion, it is but upon supposition that unjust Demanders do intrude. 4. By the like Argument from the signification of the signs connext with the word, (which declare