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A74671	The bar, against free admission to the Lords Supper, fixed. Or, An answer to Mr. Humphrey his Rejoynder, or, reply. By Roger Drake minister of Peters Cheap, London.	R. D. (Roger Drake), 1608-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing D2128; Thomason E1593_1; ESTC R208860	271,720	506

the regenerate and unregenerate the Sacrament only to the worthy receiver I mean quantum ad praesens Page 177. Mr. H. charges me to be censorious but why or in what nè gru quidem Is not this really to prove himself censorious Further we grant the tenor of the Covenant is seald to all present that is the good things of the Covenant are conditionally sealed to them whether they receive or no which therefore is no argument to prove free admission but only free presence or attendance at the Sacrament But whereas he adds ib. There can be no seal to a blank so long as there is truth and writing in the Gospel This in some respect is a truth but not to the purpose Did I ever affirm the seal was put to a blank as to the Gospel sealed We grant there is no real blank at the Sacrament but there are many personal blanks The seal of the Sacrament and of the Spirit should ever go together and how can I seal him with the Sacrament whom I have ground to beleeve the Spirit hath not sealed Hence principally flows evidence in the Sacrament because the Spirit together with the Sacrament seals the worthy receiver and doth not only seal to him In Circumcision not only the Covenant but also the person was sealed Gen. 17. 13. Rev. 7. many persons were sealed The promise secures not only good things for beleevers but also beleevers for those good things 1 Pet. 1. v. 4 5. and what the Covenant holds forth that the Sacrament seale True as Mr. H. notes p. 178. God hath commanded us to baptize all Infants within the Church and to admit all visible Saints all which yet have not the benefits of the Covenant exhibited in a right sense But what is this against us who are bound in charity to judge or hope they are real Saints till they contradict this judgement of charity by visible prophaneness c. 2. True Christ submitted to the Sacraments and there that was sealed to him of which he was capable as to Adam in innocency but neither Adam in innocency nor Christ ever needed pardon and as by Adams fall the Covenant of works was broken so had Christ finned in the least the Covenant of grace had been broken 3. True Christ was baptized to fulfil all righteousness but is it a fulfilling of righteousness to receive unworthily 4. True As relative grace is sealed to the worthy receiver so relative judgement is sealed to the unworthy receiver But 1. Relative judgement is sealed to some unworthy persons whether they receive or not 2. For my part I shall neither counsel nor easily admit any to murther Christ and thereby to seal relative judgement to themselves 5. True To some unworthy abstainers the Sacrament is a savor of death But I hope Mr. H. will be more charitable than to assert that all who abstain at present are unworthy abstayners Mr. H. ib. By way of inquiry I question how Gods establishing his Covenant by way of seal does import this exhibition of the effectual benefits to those he seals Ans 1. It must convey them necessarily if sealing and exhibition be all one as Mr. H. makes them to be p. 176. 2 With us Gods sealing of the Covenant doth not alwayes import exhibition of the benefits of the Covenant we holding that sealing and exhibition are two distinct Sacramental actions The Covenant may be sealed to all present though divers of them receive not but the benefits of the Covenant are exhibited to no receivers but those who are Evangelically worthy His inference p. 179. hangs upon the premises like a rope of sand Therefore Mr. Drake must affirm here that God seals to a blank which he most desperately doth or that this Objection comes to nothing Ans Here indeed are rash and desperate expressions Mr. D. never said God seals to a blank as to the Covenant but he sayes Mr. H. pleads for sealing to a blank as to many receivers 2. The Objection stands good because divers Ministers who admit all pell-mell and amongst them Mr. H. professedly seal to personal visible blanks where Christ hath given them no such Commission Mr. H. ib. A scrupulous Christian may receive the Sacrament as a sign though haply he cannot receive it as a seal Ans This scrupulous Christian is Evangelically worthy or not If the former he both may and must receive it as a sign and as a seal yet withall he must endeavour to get his doubts resolved If the latter then being present he may learn by the Sacrament as a sign though he do not receive it as a seal Mr. H. p. 180. Here is Mr. Drakes great error to confound the outward and inward Covenant the external and internal sealing Ans Here is Mr. H. his great error to mistake union for confusion Mr. Drake thinks that on the receivers part the inward and outward Covenant and sealing should go together and that he who wants the inward seal should not dare to meddle with the outward seal He doth not confound the inward and outward seal as Mr. H. doth sealing and exhibiting by making them all one but unites the inward and outward seal together in point of duty on the receivers part Mr. H. ib. If the seal be set to a blank until Gods Law is written in the heart then no mortal can apply the seal to any seeing that cannot be discerned by any Ans This is a meer non sequitur A Minister may without sin set the seal to a blank where in charity he is bound to judge or hope that person is no blank and this he is bound to hope of all that have competent knowledge and live without scandal The receiver must act by the rule of reality the Church by the rule of visibility I do not then contradict my self when I say p. 72. of my Bar That truth of grace in the heart is not the rule of our admission Grace real is the rule of an intelligent Church-members receiving but grace visible is the rule of the Churches admission whether it be real or no. Mr. H. ib. Now I pray note it If Mr. D. apply these texts 2 Cor. 3. 3. Heb. 8. 10. which speak only of the inward writing to confirm the Objection that the Seal is set to a Blank if all be admitted then the world must know that the truth of grace is his rule or else the new Covenant written in the heart is not truth of grace with Mr. Drake Ans 1. It s apparent by my text I brought the fore-quoted places for illustration not for proof of the Objection Mr. H. therefore might well come with an if But what if Mr. Drake did not bring those places to prove the Objection let the Reader consult my text p. 123. of my Bar where he will easily perceive Mr. H. his foul play with me in this particular who to fasten an absurdity upon me would fain confound the rule of Admission with the rule

of Receiving Mr. H. cannot be ignorant that our principles are these Real Blanks must not receive visible Blanks must not be admitted by the Church and that the scope of th● Objection was to dispute against the admission of visible not of real personal Blanks Mr. D. This Blank is either visible or invisible to God all Blanks are visible and he may use his liberty to set his Seal where he pleases M. H. p. 180. In what a sad case hath be brought himself through his former error when he must lay this for his foundation That God who cannot lie may set his seal to a visible Blank If the Minister who is Gods Ambassador seals to a visible Blank it is such an heinous sin he says as murdering Christ and yet does he affirm that God sets his seal to a visible Blank without scruple It is no wonder the man deals so coursly with me that uses such rude and uncivil language towards God Answ Such absurd and unreasonable imputations as these make it too suspitious that M. H. disputes rather for victory than for truth I hope he will not dare to say in cold blood that those expressions of mine vent any thing of rude language to God but that in the very letter as well as in their sense they give unto God the glory of his Soveraignty who is not bound but where himself pleaseth to the rules by which he bindes his creatures Object If it be irregular in the Minister to seal to a visible Blank why not in God also If the Minister murther Christ by sealing to a visible Blank how is God free who doth the same thing Answ The Minister is guilty because it pleased God to make it murder by consent in him to seal to a visible Blank but who can give law to God and make it murder by consent in God to seal to a visible Blank It s murder in me to take away my neighbors life at pleasure I hope M. H. will not infer that therefore its murder in God to take away any mans life at pleasure Object But doth not God by sealing to a visible Blank testifie that such a person hath truth of grace Answ Absurd When God knowingly and professedly seals to Blanks how can it be imagined that his design in sealing is to testifie they are no Blanks God indeed by sealing to a Blank bindes that Blank to labor for the writing but it s contradictio in adjecto to say that sealing to a Blank makes that Blank no Blank It s not the seal but the writing makes a paper or parchment no Blank nor is it the seal of the Sacrament but the writing of the Spirit makes a Church-member a real Saint or an Epistle of Christ 2 Cor. 3. 3. Object But then why may not the Minister by sealing to a visible Blank binde that Blank to labor for the writing as God doth Vnderstand a sealing here by way of admission for otherwise the Covenant is sealed in the Sacrament conditionally not onely to the receivers but also to all present yea though they be very Heathen who yet are not sealed by receiving the Sacrament Answ Because he hath no warrant to seal to that Blank in that manner the rule being that persons must 1. Be Church-members And 2. Visibly worthy before the Minister seal to them by admission But who can binde God to this rule Object But is not this the very language of the Sacrament Christ is thine c. And how can God seal this to a person that hath no part in Christ Answ The natural language of the Sacrament as well as of the Covenant to whomsoever it is proclaimed is Christ is thine c. This gift is mine 1. By way of tender 2. By way of acceptance That Christ is theirs by way of tender God seals by the Sacrament to all present whether they receive or not That Christ is theirs by way of acceptance and possession God seals to no receiver but the worthy receiver The Sacrament says to all present Christ is thine conditionally and by way of offer but to the worthy Communicant it says by way of evidence Christ is thine as sure as the outward elements are thine being received by thee and that because he performs the condition of believing which condition yet is promised in the Covenant and wrought instrumentally in the Sacrament which acts faith objectively as a sign and seal but effectively as an instrument faith apprehending Christ through the Sacrament as the eye doth an object through a Perspective-glass yea the Sacrament doth not onely clear the object but also strengthens the visive faculty of the soul by drawing a fresh supply of visual Spirits from Christ the head My meaning in all hath been said is that God by the Sacrament applied to any doth not testifie to such a receiver that he hath truth of grace though by receiving every Communicant be obliged to act grace But the Minister by giving the Sacrament to any testifies his perswasion or hope that such a one hath truth of grace which perswasion or hope is grounded upon that competent knowledge and good affections accompanied with immunity from scandal that he findes upon tryal or other good evidence to be in such a Communicant Page 181. M. H. doth onely make a flourish by abusing the homonymie of a visible Saint To which I briefly answer A person may be said to be a visible Saint two ways 1. Relatively as he is a Church-member born and bred in the Church 2. Absolutely as he walks up visibly to his profession Now that God would have all relatively visible Saints which are M. H. his visible Saints though they be absolutely visible Devils admitted is 1. Against the truth 2. Against the practice of the ancient and modern Church 3. Against M. H. his own profession since persons ip so jure excommunicate are such visible Saints yet he allows their suspension That root of bitterness Heb. 12. 15. was relatively a visible Saint as being a Church-member but absolutely he was a visible Devil The Lord keep me from giving my vote for the admission of such visible Saints M. H. ib. It s M. Drakes error to say there are any visible Blanks in the Church for how then can we baptize all children A visible Blank is one visibly out of Covenant But to be in a Church-state is to be externally or visibly in Covenant c. Answ 1. Then its M. Drakes great error to say there are any visibly profane in the Church 2. We baptize all children in the Church among others upon this account because none of them are visible Blanks knowledge we expect not from them nor are they guilty of any scandal Besides we look at their foederal holiness in either of their Parents 1 Cor. 7. 14. or in their grand Parents right who may undertake for their Christian education c. 2 Tim. 1. 5. But of this formerly 3. The same person at the same time though

I hope by that if so he doth not out of a bitter spirit question their piety If herein I am more charitable to him than he hath been to me I hope he will not take it unkindly My words p. 140. of my Bar are these I hope that godly person if so was converted before Mr. H. his Embryon was hatcht Upon these very words Mr. H. is pleased to charge me with self-conceit prejudice and a bitter spirit p. 192. when as himself in that very place where he quotes Mr. Baxter so blindly p. 48. of his Vindication gives him in effect an if so in these words I cannot but be glad to find a piercing godly man I take him c. Himself dare not say absolutely he was a godly man but he takes him to be so I say that godly man if so was converted before c. I leave it to the judicious Reader whether Mr. H. or my self were more guilty of self-conceit prejudice and a bitter spirit Withall what ever Mr. Baxters judgement be for Mr. H. his syllogism I am sure he is not of Mr. H. his opinion for admitting all pell-mell Mr. Baxter is a person whom I highly honor in the Lord though I cannot in every thing jurare in verba magistri Page 193. Mr. H. comes to his syllogism Whosoever beleeves shall be saved I beleeve ergo I shall be saved p. 141. of my Bar I endeavour to prove the conclusion of this syllogism I shall be saved is sealed in the Sacrament My argument is drawn from the general and particular promise Joh. 3. 16. and Rom. 10. 9. and confirmed from the particular offer of grace and from the argument à genere ad speciem See p. 141. and 142. of my Bar. Now what is promised in the Covenant is sealed in the Sacrament Mr. H. denies my argument and gives his reason page 193. because the Covenant promises only conditionally that I shall be saved Ans It hath been formerly shewed that what is promised conditionally is promised absolutely where the condition is performed and what is promised in the Covenant is sealed in the Sacrament As in this conditional proposition If Mr. H. be a man he is a living creature I hope the conditionality of this proposition is no bar to the absoluteness of the consequent Mr. H. is conditionally an animal as is evident in the hypothesis yet he is absolutely an animal too Why because the condition of animality namely humanity is in him In like manner If Timothy beleeve he shall be saved the consequent Timothy shall be saved is absolute in sense because he hath performed the condition of faith though it be conditional in terms And that promise which sayes All that beleeve shall be saved sayes Timothy shall be saved because Timothy beleeves as he that sayes All men shall rise sayes Timothy shall rise because Timothy is a man Note by the way that I do not say The conclusion is absolute to all but only to those who have performed or have in them the condition and withall that though it be true that he who once receives with faith shall be saved yet it follows not that he who once receives without faith shall be damned as Mr. H. absurdly infers page 194. since even a state of unbeleef doth not prove absolutely that I shall be damned but only that at present I am in a state of damnation much less doth a receiving once without faith infer any such direful conclusion and the reason is because a state of unbeleef is changeable through grace but a state of faith is unchangeable through grace and one act of faith argues a state of faith but one omission of the act of faith doth not argue a state of unbeleef Ib. His argument is too weak to convince my distinction of weakness for though the matter of the offer and promise be all one yet that grace may be offered absolutely which is not accepted but no grace is promised absolutely which is not or shall not be accepted Mr. D. Where the condition is performed there the promise is absolute Mr. H. ib. I deny it what is but upon supposition is not absolute you may say It is as good to me as if it were absolute it is certain there lyes the equivocation but how is it certain not absolutely certain as election is but conditionally certain for the promise is still the same and no new promise Answ 1. If a conditional promise be as good to me as if it were absolute that is certain then M. H. doth but wrangle about terms Grant the Believers salvation is certain as if it were absolute we have enough And its evident there is a wide difference between the conditionality of Peters and Judas his salvation since Peters conditional salvation is certain not so Judas his conditional salvation That which is absolute can but be certain and that which is conditional is certain Now that which is certain in the Covenant is sealed in the Sacrament therefore it s sealed in the Sacrament that Peter shall certainly be saved not so that Judas shall certainly be saved which is the conclusion of the Syllogism 2. There is no equivocation but a plain and downright assertion That conditionality is no Bar to absoluteness And if this be not true there is no absolute proposition in the world To instance in that of election which M. H. grants is absolute Let the proposition be All that are elected shall certainly be saved This proposition in truth is absolute and is so granted to be by M. H. Now let M. H. or any other prove this proposition he will clearly see it is conditional also For evidence whereof I shall propound this Agument If God be all-wise all-sufficient and unchangeable in his eternal purpose of free-grace then all that are elected shall certainly be saved But God is so ergo Is it not here evident that the consequent which is the conclusion is conditional yet withal we say truly it is absolute Why Because the condition of infinite wisdom power and unchangeableness which are the necessary mediums to prove the conclusion are really necessarily and essentially in God Now if conditionality be no bar to the absoluteness of election why should it be a bar to the absoluteness of the promise as made to the elect and regenerate for whom or by whom the condition either is or shall certainly be performed and is undertaken for in the promise as well as are the good things promised upon that condition M. D. When I believe the condition is performed ergo the promise that I shall be saved is absolute M. H. ib. That which assures me of a benefit onely upon condition and does not assure me the condition doth not assure me absolutely of the benefit The Sacrament assures me of salvatition onely upon condition I believe but doth not assure me I believe Therefore it doth not assure me absolutely of salvation Answ 1. M. H. his answer is not home

tolerating of weeds His four Queries propounded page 269. have formerly been answered therefore I shall not trouble my Reader with Repetitions Mr. H. p. 269. And now if Mr. Drake shall have need to write again as I beleeve nature will work and his spirit cannot hold I shall desire him if he will go to vent that superfluity of maliciousness c. to take along with him that Text Deut. 23. 13. Answ How true is that saying of the Wiseman Prov. 27. 19. As in water face answereth to face so c. Mr. H. hath set me so fair a copy in his Rejoynder that he might well expect considering both our hearts have the same inherent principles of naughtiness I would undoubtedly write after his copy But I hope I have not so learned Christ As in placing the Bar if I know my own heart I was not acted by malice so now in fixing the Bar I have by the grace of God endeavoured to avoid the appearance of malice and shall beshrew my self if any passage have slipt from my Pen which may favour of that hellish leaven I would not only seek Truth but also follow after Charity especially with Mr. Humphrey Page 270. Mr. H. He concludes with a scruple to the Reader and tells us he hath done with Mr. Humphrey Thus Hiram hath finished the work he had to do the Pots and the Shovels c. Answ See a like close of his first part page 135 136. I will not dispute how pertinent those applications of Scripture are I am sure they are not very pious Pray Sir If you shall see cause of writing again however you may trample upon Mr. Drake do not abuse the holy Scripture It s ill jesting with such Edge-tools The Word of Salvation deserves better at our hands than to be made either an Object or Instrument of derision Soli Deo Gloria A TABLE OF THE Most remarkable Passages handled in the several Sections There being twelve Sections in the First Part and ten in the Second Part. PART I. SECT II. ALL put for many and the number twelve by roundness of number put for an inferior number Ib Luke neither in terms nor by necessary Consequence affirms that Judas was present at or received the Lords Supper Ib. Supposing Judas did receive it makes not for Mr. Humphrey Ib. That scandal wiped away That we give more power to the Presbytery than to Jesus Christ Ib. Church-tryal of any warrantable upon an holy jealousie about their knowledge and piety Ib. We go not about by Suspension to punish any for a future sin Ib. His Quotation out of Dr. Hamond makes not against us who deny not but Christian Professors whose hearts are full of villany may be admitted in case that villany be not visible SECT III. DIvers middle things between a visible Covenant-relation and truth of grace which may be a just bar to admission Ib. Mr. H. allows the Suspension of persons ipso jure excommunicate How grace may be wrought in Infants by the Ordinances or promoted Infants are naturally uncapable of understanding what is done in Baptism as well as in the Lords Supper Suspension owned both by the ancient and modern Church SECT IV. MR. H. acknowledges a signified Profession and what it is A word for tender Consciences who through scruple stand off from the Sacrament 1 Cor. 11. About the Lords Supper and our address to it opened What it is to be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. How any is bound to apply Damnation to himself at the Sacrament The distinction between eating and sealing damnation Comfort to trembling Souls about this particular Whether Moral instruments cannot Convey a thing that is real SECT V. MOral as well as Levitical uncleanness was a bar to the Passover All unclean persons must be kept from those holy things which cannot convert but prejudice them in statu quo Niddui a Bar to the Passover The Parallel between the Passover and the Lords Supper How far the Corinthians scandals were a bar to the Sacrament All not put for an absolute universal nor for all of a kinde 1 Cor. 10. 21. opened and vindicated 1 Cor. 10. v. 3 4 5. vindicated The right way of settling tender Consciences The Parable of the Feast Mat. 22. and Luk. 14 vindicated Mat. 3. about Johns Baptism vindicated Acts 2. 41 42 46. vindicated Who are federally holy or not Revel 22. 17. vindicated How the Covenant by the Sacrament is sealed to all the world How far men may be compelled to tryal and that tryal about the truth of mens profession rightly managed is no entring upon the throne or secrets of God SECT VI. THe latitude of the Covenant tender is no solid ground for free Admission to the Sacrament as received In what sense and upon what account a Minister may say to a Receiver of the Sacrament Christ is thine c. A Church-member may be visibly in the state of Nature The Minister doth not seal to a lye by giving the Sacrament to those who are visibly worthy yet really unworthy Mr. H. acknowledges presence at the Sacrament to be freer than actual receiving Rom. 2. 3. vindicated How the word is a sealed word to Heathen c. All may be present at the Lords Supper but all may not receive In what cases a Minister may admit or suspend from the Sacrament SECT VII SAcraments not essential notes of a visible Church Mr. H. allows a negative Suspension upon prudential grounds The Parable of the Tares opened 134 SECT VIII ARguments to prove Suspension is a Divine Institution backed with Humane Testimony SECT IX IT s neither vain nor impossible to select a people for the Sacrament Visible Worthiness as distinct from Church-Membership warranted by Scripture SECT X. ADmission to the Passover no warrant for Mr. Humphrey his Free Admission Mat. 5 vers 23 and 25. vindicated Doubting Christians in what cases they may and must receive though unregenerate persons ought not to receive Mr. Humphrey his stating of the Controversie for himself and for us examined SECT XI Mr. Humphrey his innocency in admitting all Intelligent Church-members tryed SECT XII THe Command Drink you all of it no Argument to prove Mr. H. his free Admission PART II. SECT I. MAt 7. 6. opened and vindicated SECT II. SAcramental tryal not so burdensome as divers make it Suspension far milder than the greater excommunication SECT III. WHat Mr. H. means by visible Saint and what we mean thereby SECT IV. MR. H. holds none are visible blanks within the Church How faith is sealed in the Sacrament Mr. H. Holds that God by the Sacrament ingaegs not to give a man faith Rejoynder page 71. whence it follows that the Sacrament doth not convert How the Sacraments confirm faith formally and consequentially The Sacraments are seals though they do not confirm every Receiver Historical and particular assent are often divided in the Regenerate In the Sacrament God seals to the Regenerate the condition as well as the benefits following upon the condition The difference between Gods and the Ministers sealing to a visible Blank Mr. H. is not for the admission of all Church-members de facto unless they be also Church-members de jure This Jus is the very foundation of Church-membership and what it is The Sacrament ●eals to the inward as well as to the outward Covenant How the Sacrament is a tropical yet a proper seal Mr. Calvin very zealous against Mr. H. his free Admission How the Sacraments are Gods Seals faiths Seals and the Covenants Seals Faith is given by virtue of the Covenant made with man The conditionality of the Covenant of grace is no bar to its absoluteness How the Assumption and Conclusion of the Syllogism of Assurance are in Scripture by Consequence One and the same thing may be an object both of faith and sense In what he must be lost who will be a worthy Receiver How the Sacrament is a Seal of faith subjectively SECT V. We agree all Church-members must be admitted without a known Bar but differ about this known Bar. SECT VI. THe confirmation of faith a primary end of the Lords Supper The Lords Supper no Converting Ordinance Mr. H. his twelve Arguments to prove it a Converting Ordinance answered and one example SECT VII IOhn 13. 1. opened SECT VIII WHat is meant by Self-examination 1 Cor. 11. 28. Mr. H. hesitates whether common grace differ gradually or specifically from saving grace It s no harsh expression to say the Sacrament is poyson to the unworthy Receiver SECT IX A Digression to tender Consciences Not the accidental good effects of sin or bad effects of duty but the natural shall be imputed SECT X. MR. H. his relative cutting off from Ordinances examined FINIS ERRATA in the first part Page 22. in the Margin read page 22. p. 60. l. 9. for six r. ten p. 67. l. 9. for Pouls r. Pauls p. 80. l. 15. for he r. the p. 85 l. 19. r. Adultis p 105. l. 13. r. Mr. H. p 155. l. 31. for own r. one p. 131. l. 10. for principle r. principal p. 103. l. 27. del in and the Comma p. 96. l. 27. for to so r. so to p. 205. l. 13. r Bar. ib. l. 26. for thus r. this p. 214. l. 13. r. unintelligent p. 220. l. 11. for there r. therefore p 221. l. 32. for is grace r grace is ERRATA in the second part PAge 353 line 13. for si r. is p. 389. line 22. read medius p. 420. l. 24. r. Baptizing p. 463. l. 18. for is r. in p. 468. l. 22. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 472. l. 2. for 12. r. 22. WHereas page 22. towards the latter end I say there is no mention of Excommunication jure or facto in the 24 page of Mr. Humphrey his Vindication nor to my remembrance in any part of his Vindication I perceive now upon better information that those terms are used page 4. of Mr. H. his Vindication but the page being misquoted by his Printer occasioned my mistake which therefore I thought my self bound here to give notice of