N01152:65
The inexcusableness of neglecting the worship of God, under a pretence of being in…
The inexcusableness of neglecting the worship of God, under a pretence of being in an unconverted condition. Showed in a sermon preached at Northampton, the 17th. Decemb. 1707. being the time of the sitting of the Inferior Court. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton. ; Imprimatur, J. Dudley.The inexcusableness of neglecting the worship of God, under a pretence of being in an unconverted condition. Shewed in a sermon preached at Northampton, the 17th. Decemb. 1707. being the time of the sitting of the Inferiour Court. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton. ; Imprimatur, J. Dudley.
printed by B. Green. Sold by Samuel Phillips, 1708
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
It is also Objected, That these who were Unclean were not to partake of the Passover, Numb. 9 7 which seems to hold forth to us. That those that are spiritually Unclean in the days of the Gospel, may not partake of the Lords-Supper?
It is also Objected, That these who were Unclean were not to partake of the Passover, Numb. 9 7 which seems to hold forth to us. That those that are spiritually Unclean in the dayes of the Gospel, may not partake of the Lords-Supper?
A 1. If those that were spiritually Unclean might come to the Passover, no reason can be assigned why they may not also come to the Lords Supper: For the Passover was an holy Ordinance as well as the Lords Supper; and the Passover ought to be attended in an holy manner, as well as the Supper.
2. The Ordinances of the Old Testament were not Types of the Ordinances of the New-Testament. If the reason why the Unclean might not come to the Passover was to signify that those who were Unregenerate might not come to the Lords-Supper: of what Edification would that Institution be to the Jews. They did not understand any such meaning, & if they had, it would have done them no good. But the Ordinances of the Old Testament did signify Evangelical Doctrines, which were of great use to the Jews, so this appointment, that Unclean Persons might not come to the Passover did signify, that those who were spiritually Unclean, should not have communion with God in the highest Heaven, but be Excluded out of the Kingdom of GOD.