Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
I had in answer to Mr. [William] Prynne’s third Query, given this reason why profane and scandalous persons are to be kept off from the Sacrament, and yet not from hearing the Word: because the word is not only a confirming and comforting, but a converting Ordinance, and is a mean appointed of God to turn sinners from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God: Whereas the Sacrament is not a converting, but a confirming and sealing Ordinance, which is not given to the Church for the conversion of Sinners, but for the Communion of Saints: It is not appointed to put a man in the state of grace, but to seal unto a man that interest in Christ and in the Covenant of Grace which he already hath. ...
For more, see George Gillespie on the sacraments as sealing ordinances.
For more, see George Gillespie on the sacraments as sealing ordinances.
