A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

4. The Sacraments are seals of the righteousness of faith, or covenant of grace, as Divines commonly speak, borrowing the phrase from Rom: 4. 11. This truly hath been justly accounted so necessary, that both the Houses of Parliament after consultation, had with the Assembly of Divines, did by the Ordinance dated, Octob: 20. 1645. appoint that who ever ⟨p. 89⟩doth not know that the Sacraments are seals of the Covenant of grace, shall not be admitted to the Lords-supper, but shall be suspended from it, as an ignorant person. Now if it were an intolerable usurpation among men, if a private person should take the broad Seal of the Kingdom, and append it to such Signatures as he thinks good; yea, (put case) to these Signatures only, whereunto it is to be, and ought to be put by those who are entrusted with the keeping of it: Now much more were it a provoking sin, and usurpation against Jesus Christ (who is jealous of his glory, and tender of his ordinances) to make bold with his Seals, without being called, and appointed thereunto.

4. The Sacraments are seals of the righteousnesse of faith, or covenant of grace, as Divines commonly speak, borrowing the phrase from Rom: 4. 11. This truely hath been justly accounted so necessary, that both the Houses of Parliament after consultation, had with the Assemblie of Divines, did by the Ordinance dated, Octob: 20. 1645. appoint that who ever ⟨p. 89⟩doth not know that the Sacraments are seals of the Covenant of grace, shall not be admitted to the Lords-supper, but shall be suspended from it, as an ignorant person. Now if it were an intolerable usurpation among men, if a privat person should take the broad Seal of the Kingdome, and append it to such Signatures as he thinks good; yea, (put case) to these Signatures onely, whereunto it is to be, and ought to be put by those who are intrusted with the keeping of it: Now much more were it a provoking sinne, and usurpation against Jesus Christ (who is jealous of his glory, and tender of his ordinances) to make bold with his Seals, without being called, and appointed thereunto.