N01147:6
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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SAcramenta non Largiuntur aliquid Gratioe sed renunciant et ostendunt quoe divina Largitate nobis data sunt.
Calvin. Instit. L. 4. cap. 14. S. 17.
Sacramenta tantum Conversis sunt instituta.
Pareus in Cat. Explicat. Q. 84.
The Preface.
THERE are in Mr. Stoddard's Preface to his Sermon, several Passages very Exceptionable. One is, his Complaining, That those Holy men who first Planted this Land, did not acknowledge a Public Government in the Church. Which is a mistake. For they did declare in the most Public manner that can be, That there is a Form of Church Government, which is of Divine Institution, and also what that Form is. Not only has Mr. Cotton done it, in his Book of the Keys of the Kingdom, and of the Way of the Churches in New-England; And Mr. Hooker, in his Survey. And my Father, in his Answer to Thirty Two Questions; which goeth under the Name of the Elders of New-England. And Mr. Norton, in his Answer to the Queries, Proposed by Apollonij, (a Famous Dutch Minister of the Presbyterian persuasion) a very Learned Book, and the First that ever was Written in New-England, or I suppose in America, in the Latin Tongue. But moreover, a Synod of the Elders and Messengers of the Churches, Meeting at Cambridge, 1648. has Published a Platform of Church Discipline, Gathered out of the Word of God. Blessed Mr. Norton, in his Dying Sermon, Expressed himself thus, Remember that we have the Pattern in the Mount, I mean we have the Scripture as a Rule, & you have the Platform of Church-Discipline, given to you in way of