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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.
II. It may put all out of Controversy to find, that Christs words of one half of the Sacrament are (as they confess) figurative; therefore the other must be so judged also. Luk. 22.20. This Cup is the new Testament in my blood, which is shed for you: 1 Cor. 11.25. [This Cup is the new Testament in my blood.] And here no man denieth a double Trope at least: no man expoundeth it, that the Cup or the Wine was the New Testament it self. And yet it is as expressly said, as it is that the Bread is the Body it self. How then will they prove that one is spoken properly, and the other figuratively?
II. It may put all out of Controversie to find, that Christs words of one half of the Sacrament are (as they confess) figurative; therefore the other must be so judged also. Luk. 22.20. This Cup is the new Testament in my blood, which is shed for you: 1 Cor. 11.25. [This Cup is the new Testament in my blood.] And here no man denyeth a double Trope at least: no man expoundeth it, that the Cup or the Wine was the New Testament it self. And yet it is as expresly said, as it is that the Bread is the Body it self. How then will they prove that one is spoken properly, and the other figuratively?
III. There is no more found in these words to assert the Bread to be Christs Body, than is found in a multitude of such phrases in Scripture asserting things which all men expound otherwise. As in Joh. 15.1. I am the Vine and my Father is the husbandman: Joh. 10.7, 9. I am the door—