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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. Arg. For Unregenerate Persons to come to the Lords Supper is a mocking of God. Ans. It is no more a mocking of God than for such Persons to pray; by this argument they may not Pray.
3. Arg. An Unregenerate man is not in Covenant with God, because he has no faith, which is the condition of the Covenant, therefore has no right to the Seal of the Covenant. Answ. •. By this argument Ishmael had no right to the Seal of the Covenant, nor many ⟨p. 47⟩of those that God commanded to be circumcised, Josn. 5.2. 2. That many Unregenerate men are in external Covenant. Deut. 5.2 The Lord our God made a Covenant with us in […] therefore they have a right to the […] of the Covenant. 3. Many Unregenerate men have a right to the offer of the internal Covenant, and so they may have a right to the Seal of it, which does Seal the truth of the Covenant, and also Seals the Spiritual and Eternal blessings of the Covenant, not absolutely, but conditionally.
3. Arg. An Unregenerate man is not in Covenant with God, because he has no faith, which is the condition of the Covenant, therefore has no right to the Seal of the Covenant. Answ. •. By this argument Ishmael had no right to the Seal of the Covenant, nor many ⟨p. 47⟩of those that God commanded to be circumcised, Josn. 5.2. 2. That many Unregenerate men are in external Covenant. Deut. 5.2 The Lord our God made a Covenant with us in 〈…〉 therefore they have a right to the 〈…〉 of the Covenant. 3. Many Unregenerate men have a right to the offer of the internal Covenant, and so they may have a right to the Seal of it, which does Seal the truth of the Covenant, and also Seals the Spiritual and Eternal blessings of the Covenant, not absolutely, but conditionally.