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A dissertation, wherein the strange doctrine lately published in a sermon, the tendency of…
A dissertation, wherein the strange doctrine lately published in a sermon, the tendency of which, is, to encourage unsanctified persons (while such) to approach the holy table of the Lord, is examined and confuted. With an appendix, showing what Scripture ground there is to hope, that within a very few years there will be a glorious reformation of the church throughout the world. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]A dissertation, wherein the strange doctrine lately published in a sermon, the tendency of which, is, to encourage unsanctified persons (while such) to approach the holy table of the Lord, is examined and confuted. With an appendix, shewing what Scripture ground there is to hope, that within a very few years there will be a glorious reformation of the church throughout the world. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benj. Eliot, 1708
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It has by great Divines been thought a good Argument, if the Jews were kept from Partaking in the Sacrifices, and from entering into the Temple, and from Eating the Passover on the account of Ceremonial Impurities, then men now may be kept from the Sacrament in case of moral Impurities. A good Argument this must needs be, since the Apostle himself does Argue after that manner, 1 Cor. 6. 16, 17. compared with Lev. 26. 11, 12. Mr. S. Pretends, That this appointment that unclean Persons might not come to the Passover, did signify that those who are Spiritually Unclean shall be Excluded out of Heaven. Thus did Erastus (the most corrupt Writer on the subject of Church Discipline that ever appeared in the World) say long before him. Mr. Gillespy replies to him, that if the shutting one out of Heaven were the only thing signified thereby, there would not be a fit analogy between the Type and the thing Typified; for a Jew might be excluded out of the Temple and from holy Things, and yet be admitted again: but we cannot say so of Exclusion out of Heaven. To Conclude this Argument; the light of Nature dictates unto men, that unholy Persons should not meddle with Holy Things. Hence even the Gentiles ⟨p. 19⟩would not suffer those whom they esteemed Unholy to be concerned in their Sacred Mysteries: They would say, Procul O Procul este Profani; the Eleusinian Mysteries (tho' most abominable) were by them accounted most sacred, and (i)one was appointed to make Proclamation.
- (i)Collier Dictionary, in verbo Eleusis.
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