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The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession…
The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended, against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pennsylvania [sic], to undermine them both. / By the minsters of the Gospel in Boston, ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended, against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pensilvania [sic], to undermine them both. / By the minsters of the Gospel in Boston, ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Richard Pierce, 1690
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When he takes notice of Christ's drinking first, and drinking twice at the Sacrament; he bewrays his ignorance or perverseness; if that place be more obscure, it is to be interpreted by such as are more clear: the other Evangelists mention the order of the Institution; By Christ's first blessing and giving the Bread, and after that the Cup; and Paul tells us he received the Order from Christ Himself thus, 1. Cor. 11. 23. &c. Christ indeed kept two Sacraments at one Meeting, the Passover which He now antiquated, and the Supper which he now instituted; the former ⟨p. 144⟩Cup belonged to the Passover, which also represented Christ, and Jewish Antiquity tell us, it was their custom to conclude that Sacrament with such a Cup.
When he takes notice of Christ's drinking first, and drinking twise at the Sacrament; he bewrayes his ignorance or perverseness; if that place be more obscure, it is to be interpreted by such as are more clear: the other Evangelists mention the order of the Institution; By Christ's first blessing and giving the Bread, and after that the Cup; and Paul tells us he received the Order from Christ Himself thus, 1. Cor. 11. 23. &c. Christ indeed kept two Sacraments at one Meeting, the Passover which He now antiquated, and the Supper which he now instituted; the former ⟨p. 144⟩Cup belonged to the Passover, which also represented Christ, and Jewish Antiquity tell us, it was their custom to conclude that Sacrament with such a Cup.
In pag. 188. we have him there introducing a new Sacrament, which he tells us they have at their ordinary Meals, and the Ministers do consecrate them, sometimes by Praying, sometimes by silence, (a new way of Consecration) and to this he shrinks up this Gospel Ordinance; which is pure Familism, endeavouring to banish all instituted Worship out of the Church, under a pretence of continued holiness, a fine way to extirpate Religion out of the world, by Evacuating the Appointments of Jesus Christ. We believe that there is a spiritual Feeding on Christ, which believers are to practise daily by the exercise of Faith; and are Satisfied that our Eating &c. should be always to the glory of God, and might possibly say as much of that as, and with more truth than he. But Christs institution is something beyond that, and is appointed as a special help of our Faith in these exercises, herein therefore they are behind us, they pretend to no more than we do, and in our measure endeavour, whereas we are also for the Sacred Institutions of Christ, to help us in all other duties; and we think that our Supper