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Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
THE Sum of Christian Religion: In Way of Question and Answer.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. Ought not the Sacrament to be administered to carnal People, if they have been baptized?
Q. Ought not the Sacrament to be administred to carnal People, if they have been baptized?
A. No, because such as are not within the Covenant, have no Right to the Seal of the Covenant.
Q. Where are Believers, who have Right unto this Sacrament, to seek Fruition of it?
A. Because it ought not to be […] privately, (as the Papists would;) […] God's People are to seek to enjoy their Right to it in some particular visible Church, in joining with them, as Fellow Members of the same Body. 1 Cor. 11.20, 22. 1 Chron. 10.17. Acts. 2.42.
A. Because it ought not to be 〈…〉 privately, (as the Papists would;) God's People are to seek to enjoy their Right to it in some particular visible Church, in joining with them, as Fellow Members of the same Body.