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Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…
Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholic Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholick Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nev. Simmons, 1674
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.
P. It meaneth only, You cannot Lawfully, or you ⟨p. 120⟩ought not to partake of both, but not that it is impossible or never done.
R. No doubt but it meaneth that They ought not, or cannot Lawfully; but that's not all: The text plainly meaneth, You cannot have communion with both: You may take the bread and wine at your peril; but you cannot partake of it as a sacramental feast which God prepareth you, and so partake of Christ therein. And the same is said (expounding this) 2 Cor. 6.15. What concord hath Christ with Belial— and what agreement hath the temple of God with Idols?] Intimating that Communion with God and Idols, Christ and Belial, are (so far) inconsistent: But by the Papists doctrine an Idolater and Son of Belial may partake of the very substance of Christs body and blood, into his body, as verily as he partaketh of his meat and drink. IV. The Scripture teacheth us expressly to judge of sensible things by sense. Luk. 24.39. [Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I my self: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet.] And v. 43, [he did eat before them] to confirm their faith. But they could have no more sensible evidence of any of this, than we have of the being of Bread and Wine, or some sensible substance after Consecration. Joh. 2.9. they tasted the water turned into Wine, and were convinced.
R. No doubt but it meaneth that They ought not, or cannot Lawfully; but thats not all: The text plainly meaneth, You cannot have communion with both: You may take the bread and wine at your peril; but you cannot partake of it as a sacramental feast which God prepareth you, and so partake of Christ therein. And the same is said (expounding this)