40 , The Covenant of Work Chap.7 doc`trineof Saerameritallealìng, that then all may come that will, I Mall not now enter upon that difpute, who are admittable to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ; only I fay I dare not keep the door fo narrow as it might be kept, and that opinion held, rigidly to require of every man to give evidence, that he brings] with him his conditions, before he have any admittance, yet may keep the door narrower then I beleeve it ftands in Mr. Tombes night- Sacraments. When the Queftionift, (whofoever he is) fhall .fatisfie me in.thefe Queries, he may hear more from me. Mr. Baxter, (who is put to it to ftoop ,too low in the anfwer of fuch trifles) in his anfwer to this now in hand, hath taken much pains to finde out the way of the Sacraments Pealing, and in the refult he and Iihall not be found much to differ, yet feeing Providence made me the occafion of flatting the queftion, I fhall take leave! to take fame view of what is laid. Mr. Baxter- fayes, It is in vaine to enquire whether the Sacraments do Peal ahfolutelyor conditionally, till you firf know What is that they do feale : and in order to the .finding of this out, he layes clown the way that a Chriffian doth gather the afï'urance of his ¡unification and falvation, which h thus. He that beleeveth is juflifae4,and fall be Paved : but I beleeve: therefore I am juflified,and fhallbe fovea'. I confeffe, if I had been put upon a difcovery of that which is fealed in the Sacraments, this Syllogifm (I think) would fcarce have come into my thoughts, feeing the Peale is Gods (as Mr, Baxter obferves,) I íhould have rather looked for one from him,then to have fuppo- fed a beleever to have been upon the frame of one.And fuch a one í I Ihould have looked, to have gathered up from the inflitution, and thus (I conceive) framed, He to Whom I give Chrifl, to him I give jollification andfalvation: Tut here Igive thee Chrifl; therefore to thee I give jollification and falvation. The major here is not fealed;for the Sacraments feale to the truth of no general Propo- fitions, but they feale with application to particular perlons, to whom the elements aredifpenfed, as Proteftant Writers ha ve de- fended againft Papifts, and put into the definition of a Sacra- ment, it feales then that which fupplies the place of the minor in this tender, which is Gods gift of Chrift. In the Sacrament Ch rift ayes, This ù my body ; he (ayes, This ù my blood, and this is Paid to all that communicate. Now whether this gift of the bo dy and blood ofthrift,'he abfofutely or conditionally fealed, will be
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