to pow anz famítp 'Zook. 8 fay [I do.] And it is ordered that [none (hall be admitted to the Holy Communion, tillfach time as he be confirmed, or be ready and deftrous to be confirmed.) I confefs thefe Covenanting words are only in the New Common Prayer Book, 1662. and therefore it's like you heard no fuch thing ; But there was yet more in the Old Rubrick of the Reafons ofit. So that you fee that if the Bifhops and Paftors would faithfully manage this great work, none Mould Communicate at the Lords Table, till he profeffed all this Covenant Confent, in which your, true Converfion Both conflit. S. Iwould it werefo It would Make a great re- formation in the Church. I had learnt the Church Catechim at about(even years ofage, but Iknew lit- tle more than a Parrot what I faid, and foon for-gat it, andnever dreamt of filch a Solemn Covenant with God asyou defcribe, on which my whole SalvationBoth depend, which needeth the belt underflanding and delis beration. P. I amTo much the more of your mind, becaufe it was theWifdom of all Chrifts Churches for many hundred years,tokeep thofe that defired:Baptifm at age, a fufficient time in theorder of Catechized perfons,long teaching them the meaningofChriftianity and Baptifm, before they baptized them. And becaufe the Bereans, exa. 16. are commended for fearching the Scripture) tofeewhether that which was taught them was fo or not t But efpecially becaufe Chrift himfelf,Luk,, Ì4.z.81 29, 36. would have all that come to him, fit down fiirft and count what it is like to colt them to be his true Dif ciples, and to confider well ofthe worft, and how they fhall go through with it, before they engage themfelves to him.. Sd Big
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