Remarks on a Treatise

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Excerpt from Remarks on a Treatise: Entituled, a Plain Account of the Nature, End and Use of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, In Which All the Texts in the New Testament Which Relate to It, Are Produc'd and Explain'd, and the Whole Doctrine About It Is Drawn From Them AloneChurch, by having too high thoughts of the Holy Sacrament, and expecting more good from it than Chrill put into it which is little or nothing at all to have guarded againl't the Contempt of it, from the Infidel extremes, fince his Subject of declaring its jvature and Ufi, fo fairly led him to do this, and threw it fo full in his way, that he could not ¿ip it over without notice, and note of Difapprobation. And fince I am not aware, that his Lordlhip has ever diftinguilhed himfelf at any time in defence of the Chriftian Sacraments, or Revelation, but the World on the other Hand, his Lordfhip mull be fenfible, has been fo uncha ritable, as to fully his epifcopal Charaéter, as well from the Conduct of his Life as Writings, with Mifconl'truftions of his favouring and patro nizing thore Infidel Notions that are now endan gering Chrifiianity, and bring Contempt, and there by negleét upon the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the Doétrine of which he is fetting in a right Light. His Lordlhip indeed gives us to underfland, that the great End in View in his Writing this Treatife, was to defeat the pernicious Defigns of Infidels, but I muit own the Method he takes is fo indireét, that I {hould not have found it out, had he not told us fo.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.