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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. The minor is denied. He proves it two ways. 1. They were not Commanded to be circumcised, whether they did consent to the Covenant or not. Ans. That is a great mistake, Children were not capable to consent. 2. The Parent confessed an hearty consent to the Covenant, and an hearty consent to it, is Faith. Ans. If an hearty consent to ⟨p. 46⟩the Covenant be saith, yet the profession of an hearty consent to it, is not faith.
Ans. The minor is denyed. He proves it two ways. 1. They were not Commanded to be circumcised, whether they did consent to the Covenant or not. Ans. That is a great mistake, Children were not capable to consent. 2. The Parent confessed an hearty consent to the Covenant, and an hearty consent to it, is Faith. Ans. If an hearty consent to ⟨p. 46⟩the Covenant be saith, yet the profession of an hearty consent to it, is not faith.
In the next place he rehearses a popular discourse of Mr. Charnock's; wherein there is such a loose way of arguing, that it is hardly worth the while to put Pen to Paper to answer the arguments.
In the next place he reherses a popular discourse of Mr. Charnocks; wherein there is such a loose way of arguing, that it is hardly worth the while to put Pen to Paper to answer the arguments.
Mr. Charnock's arguments are of two sorts; the first sort are to prove that Unregenerate Persons may not come to the Lords Supper.
Mr. Charnocks arguments are of two sorts; the first sort are to prove that Unregenerate Persons may not come to the Lords Supper.