A60427:138
Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in…Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in…
Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.
London: printed by J. Wallis, 1688
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.
But there is a special examination before the Sacrament, because it is the Bread which is received to salvation or damnation; because it is the Feast, to which whosoever cometh without 1his Wedding Garment, shall be cast into utter darkness; because it is a seal which sealeth a curse or a blessing.
- 11 Cor. ii. 29. Mar. 22. 11
Therefore having observed that Examination is the necessariest lesson in Christianity, and less known than other, I have studied since my Sermon to lay down three Examinations which you should use at all times, and a special Examination, for the Communicants Catechism, which leadeth immediately to the Sacrament as a Guest is handed to the Table. In the first Examination I will show thee a Rule how thou shalt try others Spirits, and how thou shalt try thine own.
Therefore having observed that Examination is the necessariest lesson in Christianity, and less known than other, I have studied since my Sermon to lay down three Examinations which you should use at all times, and a special Examination, for the Communicants Catechism, which leadeth immediately to the Sacrament as a Guest is handed to the Table. In the first Examination I will shew thee a Rule how thou shalt try others Spirits, and how thou shalt try thine own.
Thou shalt try strange Spirits by their manner of speaking, 1plainly, or doubtfully, boldly or fearfully: therefore we read that the Oracles of the Heathen had a double meaning, and that the false Prophets never spake boldly, but where their Patrons were ready to flesh them.