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A91437	The late Assembly of Divines Confession of faith examined. As it was presented by them unto the Parliament. Wherein many of their excesses and defects, of their confusions and disorders, of their errors and contradictions are presented, both to themselves and others.	Parker, William, fl. 1651-1658.	1651 (1651)	Wing P486; Thomason E1229_1; ESTC R203140	216,319	371

betwixt the second and the third because the Apostle speakes of the Doctrine of Baptismes Hebrews 6.2 as also for that some were said to be Baptized for the dead 1 Corinthians 15.29 the former of which places implies that the acts of Baptism might be a plurality though all at one time successively performed The other That some were Baptized to become dead with Christ which we take to be the genuine meaning of that Text and that the Baptizer there paused if he went any further at that time The other is Whether those that were ignorant of what was done to them in their Infancy by death of Parents or Sureties may not lawfully be Baptized again at the time of their Repentance and Conversion to God and that for their further edification or comfort though otherwise we neither see what necessity there can be of Persons once Baptized and knowing they were so to be rebaptized or what warrant the Anabaptists have from God or men to reiterate this Sacrament or administer it at all CHAP. XXIX Of the Lords Supper OVR Lord Jesus in the night wherein he was betrayed instituted the Sacrament of his body and blood called the Lords Supper to be observed in his Church unto the end of the world for the perpetual remembrance of the Sacrifice of himself in his death the sealing all benefits thereof unto true Beleever their spiritual nourishment and growth in him their further ingagement in and to all duties which they owe unto him and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with him and with each others as members of his mystical body a 1 Cor 11.23 24 25 26. 1 Cor 10.16 17 21. 1 Cor 12.13 II. In this Sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father nor any real Sacrifice made at all for remission of sins of the quick and dead b Heb 9.22 25 26.28 but only a commemoration of that once offering up himself by himself upon the Cross once for all and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God for the same c 1 Cor 11.24 2● 26 Matth 26.26 27. So that the Popish Sacrifice of the Mass as they call it is most abominably injurious to Christs one onely Sacrifice the alone Propitiation for the sins of the Elect d Heb 7.23 24 27. Heb 10.11 12 14 18. III. The Lord Jesus hath in this Ordinance appointed his Ministers to declare his word of institution to the people to pray and bless the Elements of bread and wine and thereby to set them apart from a common to an holy use and to take and break the bread to take the cup and they communicating also themselves to give both to the Communicants e Mat 26.26 27 28. Mark 14.22 33.24 Luke 22.19 20. with 1 Cor 11.23 24 25 26. but to none who are not present in the Congregation f Act 20.27 1 Cor 11.20 IV. Private Masses or receiving this Sacrament by a Priest or any other alone g 1 Cor 10 6. as likewise the denial of the Cup to the people h Mark 14.23 1 Cor 11.25 26 27 28 29. worshiping the Elements the lifting them up or carrying them about for adoration and the reserving them for any pretended religious use are all contrary to the nature of this Sacrament and to the institution of Christ i Mat 15. ● V. The outward Elements in this Sacrament duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ have such relation to him crucified as that truely yet Sacramentally onely they are sometimes called by the name of the things they represent to wit the body and blood of Christ k Mat 26.26 27 28. albeit in substance and nature they still remain truly and onely bread and wine as they were before l 1 Cor 11 2● 27 28. Mat 26.29 VI. That Doctrin which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of Christs body and blood commonly called transubstantiation by consecration of a Priest or by any other way is repugnant not to the Scripture alone but even to common sense and reason overthroweth the nature of the Sacrament and hath been and is the cause of manifold superstitions yea of gross Idolatries m Acts 3.21 with ● Cor 11.25.26 Luke 24.26 39. VII Worthy receivers outwardly pertaking of the visible Elements in that Sacrament n 1 Cor 11.28 do then also inwardly by faith really and indeed yet not carnally and corporally but spiritually feed upon Christ crucified and all the benefits of his death the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally in with or under the bread and wine yet as really but spiritually present to the faith of beleevers in that ordinance as the Elements themselves are to the outward senses o 1 Cor 10.16 VIII Although ignorant and wicked men receive outward Elements in this Sacrament yet they receive not the thing signified thereby but by their unworthy coming thereunto are guilty of the body and blood of the Lord to their own damnation wherfore all ignorant and ungodly persons as they are unfit to injoy communion with him so are they unworthy of the Lords table and cannot without great sin against Christ while they remain such pertake of the holy mysteries p Cor 11.27 28 29. 2 Cor 6.14 15 16. or be admitted thereunto q 1 Cor 5.6 7 13. 2 Thes 3.6 14 15. Matth 7.6 CHAP. XXIX Of the Lords Supper examined BRETHREN to give you your due you have here truly set forth the Author of this Sacrament the time of its institution with some of the ends for which it was ordained in the first Section and some part of the Ministers duty in the right administration of it in the third Section you have learnedly detected and confuted many of the gross abuses of the Papists in or about this Sacrament in your second fourth fifth and sixth Sections endeavoured to comfort the receiver of it in the seventh and set Railes about the Communion Table in the eighth Section to keep back ignorant profane and unworthy Communicants but if we here convince your selves with your Authors and guides of gross ignorance and error in the main Mystery of this Sacrament we hope you will the sooner yeeld that it was possible for you to erre in other things even in the most of these we have mainly challenged you for yea peradventure you will be hereupon induced to beleeve these things That there is a departure from the faith come into the Church 1 Tim. 4.1.2 2 Thes 2.24 That the man of sin errour and delusion is crept in 2 Thes 2.3 4 That much saving truth hath been lost for many hundred years That your Authors were not sent of God to preach the true Gospel which they never understood rightly in its chief mysteries concerning Christ That it was needful that the Gospel should be preached a new to the whole world before the end of the

unto us a spiritual verticum wereby we may be inabled to keep a spiritual Passover with him from death to life and become the more strengthened to follow him in his like sufferings and death and so to be better armed and fortified against all encounters of the enemy Thus was the sacrifices of the Old Testament accompanied with a meat offering and drink offering to shew that we must be furnished with the body and blood of Christ to help us in the sacrificing and offering up our spiritual sacrifice of sin Thus Melchizedek met Abraham when he was weary and faint with his late fight and brought him bread and wine to revive and strengthen him Thus furnished we ought to remember and shew forth the Lords death till his comming to us in the spirit 1 Cor. 11.23 26. and by eating of this one bread we also become one bread or flesh or bread with Christ and each other as St. Paul speaks 1 Cor. 10.16 and so this Sacrament without all controversie was ordained as you speak afterwards to oblige us unto duty and to further our communion with Christ and with each other that we may be made one bread and one body with him and in him yet not in your sens or way but as St Paul speaks 1 Cor 10.16 17. by being all made pertakers of one bread to wit his word and 1 Co● 12.13 by being all made to drink into one spirit as before it was shewed at large In your second Section you truely say That in this Sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father as a sacrifice for the quick and the dead but Christ here offereth himself in his Mystical flesh and blood as a true meat offering and drink offering to his true beleevers and followers nor is it advisedly said of you there That at or in this Sacrament there is no real sacrifice at all made beside the commemoration of his own offering of himself with all possible praise to God for the same for in the right celebration of this Supper we ought to offer up both the sacrifices of a broken and contrite heart Psal 51.17 and to sacrifice the remainder of our sins as our daily offering in the holy of Gods Tabernacle in true conformity to Christ and through the help of his spiritual flesh and blood 1 Pet. 4.1 2. yet it is Christ himself and not his sacrifice that is the alone propitiation for all men John 12.1.2 In your third Section you set forth some of the duties of the person who is to administer this Sacrament truly but you have omitted the many parts of his office which are to declare the time and ends of its institution with the holy mysteries which it signifies and to stir up the people to lay hold of these benefits and to follow Christ unto the death with sutable prayers and thanksgivings In your fourth Section you truly affirm That the Priest or Minister should not observe or take this Sacrament alone and that he should communicate in both kindes to the true beleevers and followers of Christ and you do not without cause deny pompous elevations of and processions with the host for adoration sake and other superstitious reservations and abuses of the bread or host In your fifth you mistake much saying That the Elements in their signification have relation to Christ crucified as we have shewed before Yet it is true that the names of the Elements are attributed to the body and blood of Christ which they are designed to represent but the predication is Sacramental as you speak and lies in the verbe substantive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is as much as doth signifie est for significat as Gen. 41.25 26 27. and Gen. 50.12 18. It is likewise true which you there affirm That the Elements even after consecration remain for nature and substance bread and wine still In your sixth Section you justly tax and refute the Doctrine of Popish transubstantiation and might have reproved the consubstantiation of the Lutherans also upon good grounds but if that those terms or phrases were used to teach us that we must be spiritually consubstantiated with Christs body and blood aforesaid or transubstantiated into the same it might pass in a good sense of spiritual conformity In your seventh Section you comfort your selves and your worthy receivers with vain words and hopes concerning the presence not real only but spiritual also of that body and blood of Christ which were never signified by this Sacrament so that herein the Papists Lutherans and Calvinists do litigate de lan● Caprina and do not once discern which are the spi●itual flesh and blood of Christ there intended In your last Section you say That in this Sacrament persons ignorant of the mystery though made pertakers of the outward Elements yet they receive not the things therby signified wherein you speak truly though the speech laies hold on your selves among others but it is a question whether all that come ignorantly to this Sacrament be guilty of the body and blood of Christ we for our parts hope many are not neither doth it seem consonant to reason that all wicked or unworthy receivers that are pertakers of the Elements though they sin in coming uncalled or unprepared to this ordinance should at that time be guilty of the true body and blood of Christ which perhaps they never understood but all they that esteem not aright of the body and blood of Christ when truly offered unto them and rightly understood are guilty of the profaining of the same and much more if they by Apostacy turn therefrom as we heard before Hebr. 10.29 CHAP. XXX Of Church censures THE Lord Jesus as King and Head of his Church hath therein appointed a Government in the hand of Church Officers distinct from the Civil Magistrate a Isa 9.6 7. 1 Tim 5 17. acts 20 27 28. Heb 13.7 17 24 1 cor 12.18 Mat 28 18 19 20. II. To these Officers the keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven are committed by vertue whereof they have power respectively to retain and remit sins to shut that Kingdom against the impenitent both by the word and censures and to open it unto the penitent sinners by the mystery of the Gospel and by absolution from censures as occasion shall require b Mat. 16.19 Mat 18 17 18. Ioh 20 20 21 22 23. 2 cor 1.6 7 8. III. Church censures are necessary for the reclaiming and gaining of offending brethren for deterring of others from the like offences for purging out of that leaven which might infect the whole lump for vindicating the honour of Christ and the holy profession of the Gospel and for preventing the wrath of God which might justly fall upon the Church if they should suffer his Covenant and the seals thereof to be profaned by notorious and obstinate offenders c 1 Cor 5. chapter 1 Tim 5.20 Mat 7.6 1 Tim. 1 20 1 Cor 11.27