A39521:12
Questions preparatory to the better, free, and more Christian administration of the Lords Supper
Questions preparatory to the better, free, and more Christian administration of the Lords Supper by E.F., Esq.
London: printed for Edw. Blackmore, 1655
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.
Whether in the 1 Corinth. 11. v. 28. we should not §Vread thus; Let every man examine himself, and so let him go to the Minister and know of him whether he be fit to eat of this bread, and drink of this cup? And if so; Then whether the Assembly of Divines ought not to amend this Text?
Whether, if no example or precept of Scripture can be §VIbrought for the Ministers power of Suspending from the Sacrament, the conscience of that Minister who exerciseth this power be not secretly guided by some other Rule than the Word of GOD? And whether the true Rule be not pride, profit, and an ambitious desire to exercise authority over their Brethren, which Christ hath forbidden? Matth. 20. v. 25, 26.
Whether it doth reasonably follow; Because GOD's §VIIrenewing of Circumcision in the time of Joshuae, which Circumcision had been long before Instituted by GOD himself, fwas no Innovation in the Jewish Church; Therefore the bringing in of the Ministers power of Suspension from the Sacrament, which power Christ never ordained nor did the Churches of Christ ever approve ⟨p. 3⟩