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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. The minor is denied. Miracles are a means to beget faith. 1 Cor. 14.22. Tongues are for a sign to them that believe not. Prayer is a means, Joh. 4.•0. Thou wouldest have asked him and he would have given thee living waters. So is Meditation, Psal. 45.10. Hearken O daughter, and consider, for sake thine own People, and thy Fathers house. So Circumcision, the Passover and Baptism.
2. The minor is denyed. Miracles are a means to beget faith. 1 Cor. 14.22. Tongues are for a sign to them that believe not. Prayer is a means, Joh. 4.•0. Thou wouldest have asked him and he would have given thee living waters. So is Meditation, Psal. 45.10. Hearken O daughter, and consider, for sake thine own People, and thy Fathers house. So Circumcision, the Passover and Baptism.
Mr. Baxter's Arguments follow.
1. Arg. If no man is commanded or warranted to receive the Sacrament without the Profession of true Faith, then not without faith it self: But no man is warranted to receive the Sacrament, without the Profession of true faith.