A treatise of liturgies, power of the keys, and of matter of the visible…A treatise of liturgies, power of the keyes, and of matter of the visible…

Answ. This seemeth to touch the question it self, rather then the proposition of this fourth consideration: but we shall answer to it as it stands. 1. Here you grant that a person baptized, is baptized unto a particular Congregation: which we accept as a yielding of the question unawares. 2. If you mean, that such hath a liberty of Communion in a way of brotherly love in all Churches where he comes, we grant, (so far as nothing in him justly hinder) but if you mean that he is baptized into all Churches, so as to challenge a right of Membership in them all, we deny it, as a position that would take away all distinction of Churches, as we have formerly showed. 3. We deny that the Lords Supper is the privilege of a baptized person, able to examine himself, & walking in the truth as a baptized person, for then a Papist converted to the truth, able to examine himself, hath a right to the Lords Supper in every Church, before he make any profession of his conversion, and faith in any particular Church, for he may be such a baptized person. And we may say the like of an excommunicate penitent. 4. We grant that a baptized person is not only baptized in to that particular Church whereof he was first a member: For if it be a seal of his initiation into that particular Church only; then he must be rebaptized as oft as he enters into another, but he is baptized (in the sense formerly showed) into the whole mystical Body of Christ, and hence hath jus ad rem, or a remote right ⟨p. 145⟩unto the privileges of the Church every where, but that therefore he hath immediate right to the fruition of all, when he is severed from that particular church wherein he was baptized, that follows not: for as he had this latter right in the first Church wherein he was baptized, so he must have it in any of the Churches of Christ afterward; now if in the first Church the fruition of ordinances came by orderly joining▪ to it: so it must be afterward, for as we said before, such as the communion is, such ought to be the union, he that would have political communion with the political Churches of Christ, must be some where in political union with them, otherwise one may have communion in all Churches & yet never unite himself to any one, which loose walking we are persuaded Christ Jesus will not allow. 5 The similitude from a circumcised person will not hold.

Answ. This seemeth to touch the question it selfe, rather then the proposition of this fourth consideration: but wee shall answer to it as it stands. 1. Here you grant that a person baptized, is baptized unto a particular Congregation: which wee accept as a yeelding of the question unawares. 2. If you meane, that such hath a liberty of Communion in a way of brotherly love in all Churches where he comes, wee grant, (so farre as nothing in him justly hinder) but if you meane that hee is baptized into all Churches, so as to challenge a right of Membership in them all, wee deny it, as a position that would take away all distinction of Churches, as wee have formerly shewed. 3. We deny that the Lords Supper is the priviledge of a baptized person, able to examine himself, & walking in the truth as a baptized person, for then a Papist converted to the truth, able to examine himselfe, hath a right to the Lords Supper in every Church, before he make any profession of his conversion, and faith in any particular Church, for hee may bee such a baptized person. And we may say the like of an excommunicate penitent. 4. We grant that a baptized person is not onely baptized in to that particular Church whereof hee was first a member: For if it bee a seale of his initiation into that particular Church onely; then he must bee rebaptized as oft as hee enters into another, but hee is baptized (in the sense formerly shewed) into the whole mysticall Body of Christ, and hence hath jus ad rem, or a remote right