A defence of Christian liberty to the Lords table except in case of excommunication and suspension wherein many arguments, queres, supposition, and objections are answered by plain texts and consent of Scriptures ... / by John Graunt ...

My defence to your second Argument.

I doe not read in all the Scriptures that the participation of the Lords Supper was denied any common beleever for want of speci∣all faith, and not being a spirituall Christian: for although God did in a speciall sense institute and ordain all his ordinances for his elects sake for their regeneration and confirmation, their spirituall communion with God in Christ; yet I affirm, that among these faithfull, the outward and common Christians did in the Apostles times, & may now communicate in the outward & common things of the word & Sacraments: for they that gladly received the word, were baptized, and continued in the Doctrine, Sacraments and Prayer, Acts 2. 41, 42. And as it was thus at Ierusalem, so it was at Samaria, Acts 8. Corinth, Ephesus, Colosse, and in all the Churches of the Saints. And therefore the outward signes of the Sacraments were not or∣dained for the Saints onely, but it is with Christians in our time, as it was with Abraham and his seed, that is, the elect, in these words, Gen. 17. 7. I will be thy God, and the God of thy seed: but the outward signes of the covenant belonged to all his seed ingenerall, and to the seed of all others that came to acknowledge the truth, and be∣leeve the Scriptures.