is not idly to look on; as those of the Church of Rome, in the Celebration of their Maffes generally do; but to Do this, i. e. to Eat this Bread, and Drink of this Cup, in Remembrance of Him.

5. 2. Do you think it neceffary that Every Communicant fhould Receive this Sacrament in Both Kinds?

A. I do think it Neceffary; for fo our Saviour has appointed it. Thus he Gave it to his Difciples,and thus they Received it at his Hands. 1 Cor. xi. 27, 28, 29.

6. 2. But his Difciples were Priests, and therefore their Receiving this Sacrament in both Kinds, does not argue, that it is neceffary for the People to do likewife.

A. Whether all who were then present at the Table with our Saviour were Priefts, is very Uncertain. The Bleffed Virgin, we are fure, was at that time at Jerufalem, and, probably, did Eat the Pallover, according to the Law, with Him: Exod. xii. 3, &c. yet fhe was certainly but a Lay-Communicant: And many others for ought we know, there might be in the fame Circumftances. But not to infift upon this; Our Sa viour made no Diftinction between Priests, and Lay-Communicants, as to the Bufinefs of Receiving of this Sacrament, in One, or Both Kinds. He Gave both the Bread, and Wine himself, to All that were at the Table; and He has left a General Commandment to Us to do likewife. And his Words, and his Actions together, evidently require this of all of Us: That those who Adminifter this Sacrament, fhould Administer it as Chrift did; and thofe who Receive it, fhould Receive it as the Difciples did of Him.

7. 2. Do you then make no Diftinction between the Priests, and the People, in what concerns this Holy Sacrament?

A. As

A. As to the Manner of Receiving it, none at all. When those who are Priests Receive this Sacrament of another Prieft, it is as when they hear the Word preach'd: They receive it not as Priests, but as Chriftians. And therefore at the Inftitution of this Sacrament, our Saviour Chrift alone acted as a Prieft. He resembled the Minifters of his Church: The Disciples reprefented the Faithful; who were afterwards to Receive this Sacrament from the Minifters of the Church, after the very fame manner that They Received it at Chrift's Hand.

8. 2. But is not this Sacrament as Perfect in One Kind, as in Both?

A. Can a Thing be perfect, which wants one half of what is Required to make it Perfect?

9. 2. Yet it cannot be deny'd, but that he who Receives the Body of Christ, does therewith Receive the Blood too.

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A. Though that be not the Queftion, yet it not only may be, but in this Cafe is, abfolutely deny'd by Us; nor indeed can it without a manifeft Abfurdity, be affirm'd. It was the Defign of our Saviour Chrift in this Sacrament to Reprefent his Crucified Body; his Body as it was 1 Cor. xi. Given for Us. Now we know that when He 23, 24. fuffer'd, his Blood was fhed, and let out of his Body; and that to Reprefent his Blood thus fe- 25, 26, parated from his Body, the Cup was Confecrated apart by Him. And how then can it be pretended that he who Communicates in fuch a Body, muft partake of the Blood together with it? But this is not our Bufinefs: The Points which we infift upon are thefe; Firft, Whether, Chrift having confeffedly inftituted this Sacrament in both Kinds, and commanded Us to Do likewife; those do not evidently depart from his Inftitution, who Give, and Receive it, only in One? And if they do; Then, Second

ly.

Ka. lii. 15.

Lev. iv. 6.

xvi. 14, 15,

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Heb. ix. 13.

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we hope to be faved; namely, of God the Fa ther, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft.

7. 2. How came the Custom of Dipping to be fo univerfally left off in the Church?

A. Chiefly upon the ground of Charity; becaufe when the Gospel became every where Received, and the Perfons to be Baptized, were, for the most part, the Children of believing Parents; many of which, in thefe Cold Countries, (for a great Part of the Year) could not be dipped in Water without the hazard of their Lives; it was neceflary either to sprinkle them only with Water, or not to Baptize them at all.

8. 2. What Ground had the Church to admit of Sprinkling, as fufficient to answer the Design of this Sacrament?

A. The Example of the Purifications under the Ezek. xxxvi. Law, which were made as well by Sprinklings, 25, 26, 27. as Washings, Heb. ix. 13, 19. The Application Heb. xii. 24 of this made by St. Paul, to the Spiritual Cleanf ing of Us from our Sins: Heb. x. 22, 29. And by St. Peter to the fame Purpose: 1 Pet. i. 2. The Analogy between the sprinkling of the Water in Baptifm, and that sprinkling of the Blood of Chrift, by which we are Cleanfed from our Sins: All thefe, as they left a fufficient Latitude to the Church to adminifter this Sacrament, in any of thefe Ways; fo the Law of Charity Required that the Church fhould make Choice of sprinkling, rather than of a total Immersion; and we cannot doubt, but that the God of Charity does approve of it. Mat. ix. 13.

Of the Matter,and Form of Baptifm: Of the In

ward Grace

that is con

ferr'd by it. YOU faid, that in Every Sacrament there

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were Two Parts, an Outward and Visible

SECT. XLVIIL

Of the Real Prefence, as acknowledg'd

1.2. WIT is the Inward Bart, or by us 3 of

Sacrament?

Ching fignified, in this

Holy Chrift's Be

dy, and Blood, in this Sacrament; and

A. The Body and Blood of Chrift, which are verily, and indeed, taken and the Benefits received by the Faithful in the Lord's which from Supper.

2. 2. Are the Body, and Blood of Chrift really diftributed to every Communicant, in this Sacrament?

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A. No, they are not; for then every Communicant, whether prepared, or not, for it would alike Receive Chrift's Body and Blood there. That which is given by the Priest to the Communicant, is, as to its Nature, the fame after Confecration, that it was before, viz. Bread, and Wine: Only alter'd as to its Ufe, and Signification.

3. 2 If the Body, and Blood of Christ, be not really given, and diftributed, by the Priest; how can they be verily and indeed Taken, and Received, by the Faithful Communicant?

thence accrue

to us.

A. That which is given by the Prieft is, as to its Substance, Bread, and Wine: As to its Sacramental Nature, and Signification, it is the Figure, or Reprefentation, of Chrift's Body, and Blood; which was broken, and fhed for Us. The very Body, and Blood of Chrift, as yet it is not. But being with Faith, and Piety, Received by the Communicant, it becomes to Him, by the Bleffing of God, and the Grace of the Holy Spirit, the very Body, and Blood of Chrift: As to thofe who come Unworthily to it, it is made Damnation; that is, it Renders Cor, xi. 29.

them

them worthy of it, and without Repentance, will certainly confign them over unto it.

4. 2. How does the Bread, and Wine, become to the faithful and worthy Communicant, the very Body, and Blood of Chrift?

A. Ás it intitles him to a Part in the Sacrifice of his Death, and to the Benefits thereby procured to all his faithful, and obedient Servants.

5. 2. How does every fuch Communicant Take, and Receive the Body, and Bloed of Chrift, in this Sacrament?

A. By Faith: And by means whereof he, who comes worthily to the Holy Table, is as truly intitled to a part in Chrift's Sacrifice, by Receiving the Sacramental Bread, and Wine, which is there deliver❜d to Him; as any Man is intitled to an Estate, by Receiving a Deed of Conveyance from One who has a Power to deliver it to his Ufe.

6. What are the Benefits whereof Thofe who thus Receive this Holy Sacrament, are made Partakers thereby!

A. The Atrengthening and refreshing of their Souls by the Body, and Blood of Christ, as their Bodies are by the read, and line.

7. 2. How does fuch a Receiving of this Holy Sacrament ftrengthen our Souls?

A. As it adds a New Confirmation to Us, every time we Receive it, of God's Mercy towards us, through the Sacrifice of Jefus Chrift; and thereby Fortifies, and Corroborates Us, more and more, both in the Discharge of our Duty; and to a Refiftance of all fuch Temptations as may be likely to draw Us away

from it.

8. 2. Does it Strengthen Us in any Other Refpect befides this?

A. Yes,