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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Nine and Thirtieth accused Point.
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.
The Nine and Thirtieth accused Point.
That the Bread of the Supper of our Lord was but a Figure, or Remembrance of the Body of Christ, received by Faith, and not his true and very Body.
Ans. 1. Protestants hold, that as all words are to be taken according to the usage of the Subject or Science that they are used about, Physical Terms Physically; Rhetorical Rhetorically, Geometrical, Astronomical, Arithmetical, accordingly, Law Terms according to Law, and Moral and Theological Terms Morally ⟨p. 131⟩and Theologically; so, if as Naturalists, we ask what the matter of that Sacrament is, we say Bread and Wine: If as Moralists and Theologues, we say, it is the Body and Blood of Christ: As if you ask of a Gold and Silver Coin, what it is in a Natural Sense, we say, it is Gold and Silver: But if you ask in a Civil, Political and Law-Sense, we say, it is a 20 s. piece, a Jacobus, a Carolus piece, or it is a Crown, or a Shilling. So we say that Sacramentally and Morally, and Relatively, that which is naturally true Bread and Wine, is yet also the true Body and Blood of Christ: And we say not that it is only a Figure and Remembrance, but it is such a Figure as is Representatively his very Flesh and Blood: And it is to Deliver to us, and Invest us in a Spiritual Union with Christ himself, and right to his saving Grace.
Ans. 1. Protestants hold, that as all words are to be taken according to the usage of the Subject or Science that they are used about, Physical Terms Physically; Rhetorical Rhetorically, Geometrical, Astronomical, Arithemetical, accordingly, Law Terms according to Law, and Moral and Theological Terms Morally