Church of England which resolves it ORDAINED OF CHRIST to be AN EFFECTUAL SIGN of Grace and Gods good will toward us by which HE DOTH WORK INVISIBLY IN US and doth NOT ONLY QUICKEN but also strengthen and confirm our faith Hence Cardinal Cajetan in 1 Cor. 10. and Dr. Ames as well as Bellarmin in his Bellarminus Enervatus Tom. 3. c. 4. p. 43. conclude Haec autem est COMMUNIS THEOLOGORUM DOCTRINA Sacramenta CONFERRE GRATIAM vel FACIENDO UBI NON INVENIT FACTAM vel factam AUGENDO And that not only as Signa theorica ad signific andum tantum instituta sed practica ad signifiandum et EFFICIENDUM INSTITUTA as they there express themselves cap. 3. p. 29. To which Dr. Ames adds this as his own and all Protestants Opinions c. 3. p. 24. Nostrae sententia est SACRAMENTA OMNEM EFFICIENTIAM HABERE RESPECTU GRATIAE quam Signum practicum potest habere per ullam relationem non tamen efficere gratiam immediatè sed MEDIANTE SPIRITU DEI ET FIDE But of this more largely in answer to their last Objection against its converting power objection 6 Their 6. Objection is this h Mr. Drakes Boundary p. 163. An Answer to Susspension suspended p. 23 24. If the Lords Supper were a converting Ordinance then it should be administred to meer Heathens as well as the Gospel preached to them to convert them unto Christ But meer Heathens are not to be admitted to but debarred from it Therefore it is no converting Ordinance but confirming only Before I answer the Argument I must premise that there is a twofold Conversion mentioned in Scripture 1. Visible and external when i 1 Thess 1.8,9,10 Psal 22.17 Is 60.5 Acts 15.3.7.12.14.19 c. 2.41 c. 8.5 to 18. c. 6,7,8 c. 11.1.15 18. c. 18.10,11 c. 26.17 Rom. 10.14 to 21. c. 15.16.18 Eph. 2.11,12,13 c. c. 3.6 to 12. Gal. 3.1,2 c. 2.2.8 1 Cor. 12.2.28 Col. 1.26,27 1 Tim. 3.16 2 Tim. 1.10,11 c. 4.17 Mat. 28.19,20 Mar. 16.15 to 19. meer Heathens Infidels Jews Turks and Pagan Idolaters are converted from their Heatherism Idolatry Idols and Idol-Gods to the external profession only of the Gospel of Christ and visible worship service of the true and living God This kind of conversion not here controverted is originally wrought in an ordinary way only by the word preached or the sight of Miracles accompanying the word not by the Lords Supper Baptism or other publike Ordinances as the marginal Texts demonstrate 2. Invisible Spiritual k Rom. 2.28,29 1 Pet. 1.3,4 Rev. 2 17. Ezech. 36.26,27 Internal when unregenerate carnal Christians professing externally the Gospel of Christ and worshipping the only true God are effectually turned from all their sins lusts evil wayes works of darkness and the power of Satan to unfeigned repentance faith holiness newness of life love and obedience to God as well in their souls spirits as outward conversation doing works meet for repentance and what is lawfull and just both in the sight ef God and men Of which Conversion we read Ps 19.7 Ps 51.13 Isa 6.10 c. 59.20 Jer. 3.14 c. 25.5 c. 26.3 c. 31.18 c. 44.5 Lam. 3.40 c. 5.21 Ezech. 3.13 c. 14.6 c. 18.21.30.32 c. 33.11 to 20. Hos 12.6 c. 14.2 Joel 2.12,13 Jonah 3.8 Zech. 1.3 Mat. 13.15 c. 18.3 Mar. 4.12.20 John 12.40 Acts 28.27 c. 26.18,20 2 Cor. 3.16 Jam. 5 20. The first sort of these Conversions is peculiar only to meer Heathens and Idolaters never formerly professing the Gospel The second is proper to none but visible Christians living within the pale of the Church though I willingly acknowledge that meer Heathens upon the first preaching of the Gospel to them may be at the self same time both inwardly and outwardly converted unto God even before they are actually baptized or externally incorporated into the visible Church of Christ as is clear by Acts 2.37,38.41 c. 8.12 c. 10.44 c. c. 11.15,16,17,18 c. 13.47,48 c. 16.14,15.30 to 35. c. 26.18,19,20 1 Thess 1.9,10 This later Conversion of which we only dispute both may be and usuall is as properly as effectually wrought in the Souls of Christians by the Lords Supper where duly frequently constantly administred as by the word preached it being not only as apt to beget Saving faith and assurance as the naked word alone but in some respects more probable to effect them since l 1 Kings 10.6,7,8 Lu. 1.2 Acts 10.40,41 2 Pet. 1.16 Eye-witnesses Evidences are more perswasive and apter to beget belief assurance then Ear-witnesses and m Deut. 17.6 c. 19.17 Mat. 18.16 two witnesses than one alone and an Oath or Seal annexed to Promises Covenants more strong powerfull to assure resolve comfort work faith of adhaesion in our doubting spirits than naked Promises or Covenants without them Hebr. 6.17,18 Psal 89.3.33,34,35 Psal 110.4 This distinction premised I answer 1. That the sequel of the Major is false 1. Because the Lords Supper belongs not to meer unconverted Heathens and Idolaters being not instituted by Christ for such to convert them from Paganism to Christianity but only to baptized Christians and Members of the visible Church as is evident by Mat. 26.17 to 33. Mat. 14.12 to 28. Lu. 22.8 to 31. c. 24.30,31 Acts 2.41,42,46 c. 20.7.11 1 Cor. 10.16,17.21 c. 11.20 to the end even as the Passeover belonged to none who were uncircumcised but to the circumcised alone Exod. 12.43 to 50. and the Sacrament of Baptism was to be administred to no meer Pagans but only to such who embraced the Gospel first preached to them and professed their belief thereof before they weÌre actually baptized Mat. 28.19 Mat. 16.15,16 Acts 2.41,42 c. 8.12,13,36,37 c. 10.47,48 c. 16,14,15.31,32,33,34 Now the reason why neither the Lords Supper nor Baptism might be administred to meer Infidels before their embracing of the Gospel is not because they are no really converting Ordinances in the sense forementioned as I have proved the Lords Supper to be and the n See Bochellus Decr. Eccl. Gal. l. 2. Tit. 3. de Baptismo Jewels Reply to Harding p. 21. 27. 242 249 250 458. Ames Bellarm. Enervat Tom. 3. l. 1. c. 3. Fathers with others assert Baptism to be from Mat. 3.11 John 1.26 Rom. 6.34 Gal. 3.27 1 Pet. 3.21 Eph. 5. â26 27 Tit. 3.5 but because they are badges of our Christianity to distinguish us from Pagans and all other false Religions the means signs Bonds of our actual incorporation and mystical union into the visible Church of Christ the Memorials of the death of Jesus Christ whereby we shew forth his death till be come and Evidences of our Christians Communion and mutual agreement in faith and brotherly Christian love one towards another as members of the selfsame body as 1 Cor. 10.16,17.21 c. 11.23,24,25,26 c. 12.12.13,14 the 25. 28 Articles of the Church of England the Harmony of Confessions Sect. 11 12 13 14 15. and all who have written of them define them to be 2ly Because there