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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
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Book 3: The Third BOOK. Arguments to prove that Sanctifying Grace is not necessary, in order to…
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2. Exception. Though Gospel mysteries were typified by the Passover, yet it was instituted in special, to be a commemoration of the deliverance out of Egypt, and so the whole Nation were to partake of it.
2. Exception. Though Gospel mysteries were typifyed by the Possover, yet it was instituted in special, to be a commemoration of the deliverance out of Egypt, and so the whole Nation were to partake of it.
Answ. If when he saith, it was in special to be a commemoration of the deliverance out of Egypt, he intends no more. 1. Then this, that beside its typifying Gospel mysteries, it had a particular respect to the deliverance out of Egypt; there is no force at all in the exception, if it had some respect to that, that hindered not the Sacredness of the Ordinance, neither could it be a reason why Unsanctified persons should come to that Ordinance, more than to any now in the time of the New-Testament; the respect is had to the deliverance out of Egypt, does not destroy the respect it had to the Redemption by Christ: its being a Memorial of the deliverance from Egypt, don't hinder it from being a Seal of the righteousness of faith, nor make it fit to be attended by such as may not attend the Lords Supper. 2. If when he saith, it was in special to be a commemoration of the deliverance from Egypt, he means that it was especially, or principally instituted for that end, to be a Memorial ⟨p. 57⟩of that deliverance from Egypt; surely he did not Write those words in cold blood: the deliverance out of Egypt was a great Mercy, but small in comparison of the deliverance by Christ: if the great thing was to be a Memorial of the deliverance from Egypt, why was there not such another Ordinance instituted, when they were delivered from Babylon; if that were the great thing why was it abolished after Christs suffering? can it enter into any mans heart, to think that the typifying the Redemption by Christ was only a thing by the by in this institution? is that deliverance from Egypt the principal thing intended in the preface to the ten Commandments?