An appeal to the learned. Being a vindication of the right of visible saints…

The consequence is likewise good. If the want of Sanctification, did not make it unlawful for men to come to the Passover: Then it don't make it unlawful for men to come to the Lords Supper. The Passover is a Sacrament as well as the Lords Supper, therefore Christ is called our Passover, 1 Cor. 5.7. Christ our Passover is Sacrificed or us. In the Passover Christ is represented, and it is as well as Circumcision a Seal of the righteousness of faith. If it be unlawful for Unsanctified persons to partake of the Lords Supper, because that is a sign of Christ Crucified, it would on the same account have been unlawful to have partook of the Passover, for that likewise was a sign of Christ Crucified. If it were unlawful, because it is an holy Ordinance; then they might not have come to the Passover, for that was an holy Ordinance also. If it be unlawful because therein Saints have communion with Christ, it would upon the same account have been unlawful to have come to the Passover; for Saints therein had communion with Christ. If it were unlawful, because the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ⟨p. 53⟩is a Sacrament of confirmation, then it would have been unlawful to have partook of the Passover, on the same account: the Passover & the Lords Supper are like figures, one of Christ to come, the other of Christ already come: and when Christ abolished one, he instituted the other in the room thereof. It seems to me that many Persons do make an idol of the Lords Supper; crying it up above all Ordinances both of the Old & New Testament, as if it were as peculiar to Saints as heavenly glory, and to be attended with more reverence than all other Ordinances. It may be this is some of the relics of Popish Idolatry, in making the Bread & Wine to be the natural Body & Blood of Christ. They do by the Lords Supper as some men do by the Name of Jesus, they bow to that, but not to the Name of Christ, or God, or the Holy Ghost. So these Persons have a greater reverence for this than any other holy Ordinance. It concerns them to see that there be no Superstition in it.

The consequence is likewise good. If the want of Sanctification, did not make it unlawful for men to come to the Passover: Then it don't make it unlawful for men to come to the Lords Supper. The Passover is a Sacrament as well as the Lords Supper, therefore Christ is called our Passover,