A26886:762
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.
Yates Model of Divin. pag. 330, 331.1 [Christ in the Sacrament profiteth not except he be eaten by faith. A Reprobate may receive bread; but the sign, seal, and thing signified are none of his: for he hath no experience of this mystery, that wants the first part of Divinity, without which the second cannot work.] So Christ with all his benefits being received, and the fruits thereof being truly received by ⟨p. 225⟩faith is our happy communion with the body and blood of Christ: Otherwise we communicate no more with Christ in the Sacrament, than we do with the bread and wine, whilst they stand untouched upon the Communion Table.]
Yates Model of Divin. pag. 330, 331.1 [Christ in the Sacrament profiteth not except he be eaten by faith. A Reprobate may receive bread; but the sign, seal, and thing signified are none of his: for he hath no experience of this mysterie, that wants the first part of Divinity, without which the second cannot work.] So Christ with all his benefits being received, and the fruits thereof being truly received by ⟨p. 225⟩faith is our happy communion with the body and blood of Christ: Otherwise we communicate no more with Christ in the Sacrament, than we do with the bread and wine, whilest they stand untouched upon the Communion Table.]
- 141. Yates.
C•cceius in Sacr. Script. potent. pag. 337.1] Quae est validitas Baptismi nisi haec, quòd baptismus tum praedicatus tum collatus confirmat omni Credenti Remissionem peccatorum? & est [Greek or Hebrew] sive firmamentum Interrogationis & restipulationis bonae conscientiae ad Deum: & qui cum professione Nominis Patris, Filis & Spiritus sancti, & sine contemptu Sacramenti ad nos venit, cum possimus securè ut fratrem & foederatum recipere, &c. Qui baptizatur, profitetur se Christi discipulum: qui credit à Christo didicit; qui veritatem prositetur, oftendit se à Christo didicisse & gratiae quae baptismo obsignatur, participem factum esse. Quid igitur illi baptismus in nomine Christi susceptus testatur minù, quàm omni Discipulo Christi? [Vid rel.