Chap.7. and the Covenant of Grace. 37 juflification and falvation. This is plain, many of thefefall fhort of falvation, Many are called but few chafen, Matth. 22. 14: And therefore falvation cannot be abfolutely Pealed to them. But that thefe are priviledges of the Church vifible cannot be denied. All difcipled muff be baptized, Mat. 28, 19. All vifible difciples, as was Simon Map's, Hymeneus, Pbiletuc and Alexan -der, The Lords Supper was given to the twelve in the name of the Church, and celebrated by vifible Churches, i Cor. 1 I. If one clofe hypo- crite can winde in, it will conclude the thing in queftion. Fourthly, the feale dale spirit, and the feales of the Sacra- ments muff not be confounded and made one, they muff not be conceived to be of equal latitude ; the one being a priviledge of the Church vifible, the other of the Church invifible ; the one ap- pertaining to the whole houle, in which are veffels ofhonour and difhonour, the other proper only to the veffels of honour, that . are marked out of God to the day of Redemption, kph. 4. 3o. But this-dodrine ofthe abfoiute unconditional feale of the Sa- craments confounds the leale of the Spirit, and the feale of the Sacraments together, feeing it is the alone Prerogative of the Spirit, to leale abfolutely and Infallibly. Not every one that re- ceiveth the Sacrament, but every me that path the Spirit ihaj.l be faved. Fifthly, that ordinance which not, but upon fuppofal of a condition put, can Peale othei wife then conditionally, upon fuppofal of filch condition. But the Sacraments fave but upon fuppofal of a condition, B apt i fíne laves, faith the Apoflle, his meaning ought to be well known, inftrumentally faves, feales falvation, i Pet. 3. zo. Then he explai.nes himfelf by a diflint`tion how Baptifme loth fave, and how it faves not ; . Not the purring, away the filth of the- flejh (not the outward ad.miniflration) but the anfrer ofa good confcience toward.,. god, when confcience an- fwers unto all that Baptifme requires, then upon this condition Baptifme is a feale that Chriff faves, and fo by way of juft paral- lel we may fay of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Sixthly, that fealing.ordinance' that-calls for qualifications in the.perfon, that partakes of the ordinance, that calls to felf -exa -, urination, whether duty be performed in order to receive com- forts, and avoid danger by the ordinance, feales tote comfort in cit4ler,but conditionally. But the Sacraments call for qualificati F 3 on, nor
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