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

1. It doth not follow that if they eat & drink Judgment to themselves that they should forbear. Natural men Sin when they Pray, when they Hear, so they did ⟨p. 6⟩of old when they offered Sacrifice; and they expose themselves to the Judgment of God; but it don't follow that they must forbear.

1. It doth not follow that if they eat & drink Judgment to themselves that they should forbear. Natural men Sin when they Pray, when they Hear, so they did ⟨p. 6⟩of old when they offered Sacrifice; and they expose themselves to the Judgment of God; but it dont follow that they must forbear.

2. That true Believers may eat & drink unworthily. The Apostle doth not speak of unworthy Communicants, but unworthy Communicating. He supposes the Church of Corinth to consist of such as were Believers, yet he supposeth that some of them did eat & drink unworthily: v. 30. He says, For this cause many among you are weak & sickly: yet it doth not follow that they must forbear.

2. That true Believers may eat & drink unworthily. The Apostle doth not speak of unworthy Communicants, but unworty Communicating. He supposes the Church of Corinth to consist of such as were Believers, yet he supposeth that some of them did eat & drink unworthily: v. 30. He says, For this cause many among you are weak & sickly: yet it doth not follow that they must forbear.

3. Natural men may eat & drink without that unworthiness or unmeetness that the Apostle speaks of (1) Because the Apostle doth express this unworthiness to lye in not discerning the Lords body. v. 29. He that eateth & drinketh unworthily, eateth & drinketh Damnation to himself: not discerning the Lords body. That is, not differencing that bread from common bread. (1) Because the worthiness or unworthiness here intended is that which may be known before hand. Therefore he advises them, to Examine themselves, v. 28. But no man can tell by any previous Examination whether he shall eat & drink in saith