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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.
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.
Answ. I deny the minor. The Sacrament by the Institution of it supposes them to be such as the Church is bound to admit. viz. Visible Saints. If God have appointed his Church to admit visible Saints, whether they be real Saints or not; we cannot say that they are by Institution supposed to be real Saints: Men may suppose what they will, but by Institution they are supposed to be visible Saints.
3. Argument, The word is the only Instrument to beget Faith.