N01201:86
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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1. That some of them intend no more, than that those who are admitted to the Lords Supper, be to the judgment of Charity Believers; as is obvious to those that are conversant in their Books; and I am of the same judgment with them.
2. Some of these Divines have been guilty of great mistakes in other things, and it is not piacular to suspect them in this. If they be out of the way in this particular, that adds but one error more to those which they have published.
3. Many Divines have abundance of work before them, and have not opportunity to search narrowly into the points of controversy; but take some things for ⟨p. 34⟩granted, from their Education, and are zealous in them without accurate and impartial Examination.
4. Many Divines both ancient & modern are strangely to seek about the Doctrine of Regeneration, which might easily lead them into this mistake.