V. Although it be a great fin to contemn or neglect this ordi

nance n, yet grace and falvation are not so infeparately annexed unto it, as that no person can be regenerated or faved without it o, or that all that are baptized are undoubtedly regenerated p.

VI. The efficacy of baptifm is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administred q; yet notwithstanding, by the right use of this ordinance, the grace promised is not only offered, but really exhibited and conferred by the Holy Ghost, to fuch

fuch (whether of age or infants)as that grace belongeth unto, according to the counsel of God's own will, in his appointed timer. VII. The facrament of baptifm is but once to be adminiftred to any perfon/.

CHAP. XXIX. Of the Lord's Supper.

UR Lord Jesus, in the night wherein he was betrayed,. inttituted the sacrament of his body and blood, called the Lord's Supper, to be observed in his church unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance of the facrifice of himself in his death, the fealing all benefits thereof unto true believers, their spiritual nourishment and growth in him, their farther engagement 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 other, as members of his myftical body a. II. In

canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

r Gal. iii. 27. For as many of you, as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. Tit. iii. 5. Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, he faved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Eph. v. 25. Hufbands, love your wives, even as Christ alfo loved the church, and gave himself for it; v. 26, That he might fanctify and cleanse it with the wathing of water by the word. Acts ii. 38. Then Peter faid unto them, Repent, and be baptized e very one of you in the name of Jefus Chrift, for the remiffion of fins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. v. 41. Then they that gladly received his word, were baptized and the fame day there were added unto them above three thoufand fouls.

VII. Tit. ii. 5. (See in letter r.)

I. a 1 Cor. xii 23. For I have received of the Lord, that which alfo I delivered unto you, That the Lord, Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread: v. 24. And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat; this is my body which is broken for you, this do in remembrance of me. v. 25. After the fame manner alfo he took the cup, when he had fupped, faying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. v. 26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye da thew the Lord's death till he come. 1 Cor. x. 16. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrife? v. 17. For we being many, are one bread and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. v. 21. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils; ye cannot be partakera

II. In this facrament, Christ is not offered up to his Father,

nor any real facrifice made at all, for remiffion of fins of the quick or dead b; but only a commemoration of that one offering up of himself, by himself, upon the cross, once for all; and a spiritual oblation of all poffible praise unto God for the fame c; fo that the popish facrifice of the mafs, as they call it, is most abominably injurious to Christ's one only facrifice, the alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect d.

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 hereby to fet them apart from a common to a 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; but to none who

partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Cor. xii, 13. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one spirit.

11. b Heb. ix, 22. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remiffion. v. 25. Nor yet that he should offer himself of ten, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others: v. 26. (For then must he often have fuffered since the foundation of the world) but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away fin by the sacrifice of himself. v. 28. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto those that look for him, shall he appear the second time, without fin, unto salvation.

c 1 Cor. xi. 24, 25, 26. (See them in letter a.) Mat. xxvi. 29. And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and faid, Take, eat; this is my body. v. 27. And he

took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it.

d Heb. vii. 23. And they truly were many priefts, because they were not fuffered to continue by reason of death: v. 24. But this man, becausfe he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. v. 27. Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up facrifice, first for his own fins, and then for the peoples: for this he did once when he offered up himself. Heb. x. II. And every priefst standeth daily miniftering, and offering oftentimes the fame facrifices, which can never take away fins: v. 12. But this man, after he had offered one facrifice for fins for ever, fat down on the right hand of God. v. 14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. v. 18. Now where remiffion of these is, there is no more offering for fin.

III. e Mat. xxvi. 26, 27. (See in letter c.) v. 28. For this is my blood of the new testament, which is fred for many for the remission of fins. And Mark xiv, 22. and as they did

who are not then present in the congregation f.

IV. Private masses, or receiving this facrament by a priest or any other alone g, as likewife the denial of the cup to the people h, worshipping the elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them about for adoration, and the referving them for any pretended religious use, are all contrary to the nature of this facrament, and to the institution of Chrifti.

V. The outward elements in this facrament, duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that truly, yet facramentally only, they are sometimes called by the name of the things they reprefent, to wit, the body and blood of Christ; albeit, in substance and nature, they ftill remain truly bread, and wine, as they were before 1.

VI. That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance

of bread and wine, into the substance of Christ's body and blood (commonly called transubstantiation) by confecration of a priest, or by any other way, is repugnant, not to fcripture alone, but even to common sense and reafon; overthroweth the nature of the facrament, and hath been and is the cause of manifold fuperftitions, yea, of grofs idolatries m.

VII. Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this facrament n, do then alfo inwardly by faith really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally but fpiritually, receive and feed upon Chrift crucified, and all benefits of his death: the body and blood of Chrift being then, not corporally or carnally, in it, or under the bread and wine; yet as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses o.

VII. Altho' ignorant and wicked men receive the outward elements in this facrament, yet they receive not the thing fignified thereby; but, by their unworthy coming thereunto, are guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, to their own damnation. Wherefore all ignorant and ungodly persons, as they are unfit to enjoy communion with him, so are they unworthy of the Lord's table, and cannot without great fin against Chrift, while they

cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. v. 28. But let a man examine himself, and sa let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. Mat. xxvi. 29. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

VI. m Acts. iii. 21. Whom the heaven must receive, until the times of reftitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets, fince the world began. With 1 Cor. xi. 24. And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and faid, Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me. v. 25.

After the fame manner alfo he took the cup, when he had fupped, faying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood; this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. v. 26. (See letter 1) Luke xxiv. 6. He is not here, but is rifen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee. v. 39. Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I my felf: handle me, and fee, for a fpirit bath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

VII. n 1 Cor. xi. 28. (See in letter /.)

• Cor. x. 16. The cup of bleffing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrift?