Pecíouo Naftb. 421 lievers in particular. The Lords Supper, whiA rote out of the Afhes of the Pafchal Supper, and took its very Materials from thence, Both eminently Seal Chrift with all his Benefits un- to the Believer. Our Saviour delivering it to his Difciples, faid, This is my body which is gi- ven for you; this is my blood which is fhed for you, Luk 22. 19,2o. Why for you, but to fignifie the particular Application of his Path- - on to them ? By the Elements of Bread and Wine, as by turf and twig, God gives the Believer livery and feifin of Chrift ; as if he faid to him exprefly, Chrift is thine, Pardon and Salvation are thine , thou haft my Seal for it, and mayft be as lure of it, as of the Bread and Wine in thine Hand and Mouth. Beliarmine himfelf confeffes, That Sacraments were inftituted, Vt nos certes reddant remigionis â gratix To make us certain of Pardon and Grace, Only he adds, 'Tis only a moral certain- ty, not an infallible one. But how frivolous is this? What can make an Infallible certainty, if Gods Seal cannot do it ? Among all Nations Seals are great Confirmatives. When Darius, but a man, Signed the Decree, thot,gh of Ini- quity, it was unalterable by the Law of the Medes and Perfians, Dan. 6. 12. And what the Great God Seals in the Sacrament, in a way of Grace and Mercy, mutt much more be fo, by the Law of his own Truth and Faithf slnef . The yews looking on the Rainbow, biefs God who remembers his Covenant, and is faithful in his Promifes, as being Pure that the World F f 3 (ball De effeeg. Sacram. 1.r. c.8.
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