The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…

4. And it is matter of Fact past all dispute, that not only all the Papists, the first ten Years of Queen Elizabeth, came to our Churches, and some do so still; but that abundance such as aforesaid, come to the Parish Churches, who in Coffee-Houses talk against Christianity, or the immortality of the Soul, or the Scriptures, and such as write Books to the same purposes; and these are not converted from Sadducism, Bestiality, or Infidelity.

4. And it is matter of Fact past all dispute, that not only all the Papists, the first ten Years of Queen Elizabeth, came to our Churches, and some do so still; but that abundance such as aforesaid, come to the Parish Churches, who in Coffee-Houses talk against Christianity, or the immortality of the Soul, or the Scriptures, and such as write Books to the same purposes; and these are not converted from Sadducism, Beastiality, or Infidelity.

5. And then mark whether any of this Brother's Arguments do prove, that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, was ordained for such Men to use for their Conversion.

§ 4. Remember that the full Conversion to Sa••ing-Sincerity, is nothing else but [sincere Consent to the Baptismal Covenant.] And every such Consenter, and only such (Adult) are savingly converted. And that it is not that Covenant, when any essential part is omitted: To believe in the Father and not the Son, or not in the Holy Ghost, is not that Covenant: Now the Person in ⟨p. 149⟩question, To receive the Sacrament as the Sacrament, (Baptism, or the Eucharist) and not to profess Consent to the Covenant, is a contradiction; no Man can do it: Covenanting is essential to it. And it is essential to it to be by God's Commission a Solemn actual investing Delivery, with application to the just receiver of a saving Right to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and actual present pardon of Sin, and right to Life.