A55299:207
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ, and our union and communion with him by Edward Polhill ..., Esquire.
London: printed for Ben. Foster, 1675
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 Sacraments our Saviour hath instituted, as Symbols of our Union with him, are a plain demonstration of it: 1Baptism is the Sacrament of our admission into the Christian Church; For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, 1 Cor. 12.13. In which the Apostle seems to allude to Baptism, which confers the holy Spirit on us all, and thereby makes us all members of the Body of Christ: But more expressly in Eph. 4.4. There is one body, and one Spirit; as ye are called in one hope of your calling: One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism: That is, the Christian Baptism is but one, and is a Sacrament of Union, making us all members of that one Body; This is called being baptized into Christ, that is, admitted into the Church by a public Profession of our Faith in Christ. Thus the Lord's Supper is a Sacrament of Union, and signifies the near conjunction between Christ and the Church, and the mutual fellowship of Christians: Hence the Apostle ⟨p. 186⟩calls the Cup, the Communion of Christ's Blood; and the Bread, the Communion of his Body: For we being many are one bread and one Body, (one Body represented by this one Bread) for we are all partakers of that one Bread, 1 Cor. 10.16.
The Sacraments our Saviour hath instituted, as Symbols of our Ʋnion with him, are a plain demonstration of it: 1Baptism is the Sacrament of our admission into the Christian Church; For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, 1 Cor. 12.13. In which the Apostle seems to allude to Baptism, which confers the holy Spirit on us all, and thereby makes us all members of the Body of Christ: But more expresly in Eph. 4.4. There is one body, and one Spirit; as ye are called in one hope of your calling: One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism: That is, the Christian Baptism is but one, and is a Sacrament of Ʋnion, making us all members of that one Body; This is called being baptized into Christ, that is, admitted into the Church by a publick Profession of our Faith in Christ. Thus the Lord's Supper is a Sacrament of Ʋnion, and signifies the near conjunction between Christ and the Church, and the mutual fellowship of Christians: Hence the Apostle