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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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Answ. I stand to my former Answer: notwithstanding any thing he saith to the contrary: he brings Dr. Whitaker & Dr. Goodwin against my Assertion; but indeed there has been such variety of Opinions in the World, that men may bring humane authority, yea the Testimony of deserving men for almost any mistake. The word [Greek or Hebrew] is equivocal: so Adam is said to be a Figure or Type, the word is, of him that was to come. So we read, Act. 7.43. They took ⟨p. 13⟩up the Tabernacle of Moloch, and the Star of your God Remphan, figures or types which you made. So 1 Cor. 10, 11. All things are said to happen to them for Ensamples or Types: but a Type properly is some instituted resemblance of some Gospel Truth; and the Ordinances of the Jewish Church were not instituted to be resemblances of the Ordinances of the New-Testament: they did not instruct the Church of the Jews in Gospel Ordinances. Was Circumcision instituted to instruct the Church of the Jews for above two thousand years, that Baptism should be appointed in the Christian Church, and that it must be administered with such and such circumstances? The like I may say of the Passover and the Sacrifices, &c. neither were they instituted to teach us Gospel Ordinances; we may receive some Edification from them: but we are under better Ordinances, & a more glorious dispensation. Those Ordinances were appointed of old to teach the Ancient Church, the way of Salvation by Christ. Col. 2.17. They were a shadow of good things to come, but the body is of Christ.
Answ. I stand to my former Answer: notwithstanding any thing he saith to the contrary: he brings Dr. Whitaker & Dr. Goodwin against my Assertion; but indeed there has been such variety of Opinions in the World, that men may bring humane authority, yea the Testimony of deserving men for almost any mistake. The word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is equivocal: so Adam is said to be a Figure or Type, the word is, of him that was to come. So we read, Act. 7.43. They took ⟨p. 13⟩