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The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…
The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal divided into four parts ... : in each of which there are not a few choice and useful questions, very shortly and satisfyingly discussed and cleared / by ... Mr. James Durham ... who being dead (by this) yet speaketh ; and published by John Carstares ... ; to which is prefixed an excellent preface of famous Mr. Blair ... ; together with a table of the contents of the several chapters of each part.
Edinburgh: printed by Christopher Higgins, 1659
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2. An Ordinance may be said to be polluted, when ⟨p. 148⟩it is irreverently and profanely abused, though essentials be kept: Thus the Lords Sabbath may be polluted, which yet is holy in it self; So was the Table of the Lord polluted, Mal. 1. And in this sense the Sacrament of the Lords Supper was indeed polluted by the Corinthians, 1 Cor. 11. when some came drunk or otherwayes irreverently to the holy Ordinances; in this respect, an Ordinance may be said to be polluted to him that so goeth about it, because to the unclean all things are unclean; but it is not polluted in it self, nor to any other that examine themselves, as the former instance doth clear, because that pollution cometh from nothing in the Ordinance, (it being in its essentials complete) but doth arise from the sinfulness of such and such persons, and therefore must be commensurable with them.
2. An Ordinance may be said to be polluted, when ⟨p. 148⟩it is irreverently and profanely abused, though essentials be keeped: Thus the Lords Sabbath may be polluted, which yet is holy in it self; So was the Table of the Lord polluted, Mal. 1. And in this sense the Sacrament of the Lords Supper was indeed polluted by the Corinthians, 1 Cor. 11. when some came drunk or otherwayes irreverently to the holy Ordinances; in this respect, an Ordinance may be said to be polluted to him that so goeth about it, because to the unclean all things are unclean; but it is not polluted in it self, nor to any other that examine themselves, as the former instance doth clear, because that pollution cometh from nothing in the Ordinance, (it being in its essentials compleat) but doth arise from the sinfulnesse of such and such persons, and therefore must be commensurable with them.