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An appeal to the learned. Being a vindication of the right of visible saints…
An appeal to the learned. Being a vindication of the right of visible saints to the Lords Supper, though they be destitute of a saving work of God's spirit on their hearts: against the exceptions of Mr. Increase Mather. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton. ; [Two lines from Daniel]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1709
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Book 2: The Second BOOK. The Arguments of Mr. Vines, Mr. Baxter, and Mr. Charnock, Answered.
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.
Ans. I deny the minor. Eating & Drinking at the Sacrament does signify feeding upon Christ; when men do act faith upon Christ, they are said to feed upon the body & blood of Christ. Joh. 6.53, 54. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, & drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh & drinketh my blood hath eternal life. And the first act of faith or feeding on Christ, which is actual Conversion is signified as well […] after acts of Faith.
Ans. I deny the minor. Eating & Drinking at the Sacrament does signify feeding upon Christ; when men do act faith upon Christ, they are said to feed upon the body & blood of Christ. Joh. 6.53, 54. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, & drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh & drinketh my blood hath eternal life. And the first act of faith or feeding on Christ, which is actual Conversion is signifyed as well 〈…〉 after acts of Faith.
2. Argument, That Sacrament that by the institution of it presupposeth those that reap the benefits of it to be Converts, is no Convening Ordinance: But this Sacrament of the Supper presupposeth by the Institution, those that reap the benefits of it to be Converts.
2. Argument, That Sacrament that by the institution of it presupposeth those that reep the benefits of it to be Converts, is no Conventing Ordinance: But this Sacrament of the Supper presupposeth by the Institution, those that reap the benefits of it to be Converts.