Annotatio VI §.V AD POSTERIUS: Word/Baptism need inward Spirit; Supper feeds the already-faithed
AD POSTERIUS is futile: Word and baptism making Spirit-participants does not prove Impious can take spiritual body-food.
Inward Spirit-operation regenerates, not bare hearing or water alone; and the Supper is not same-ratio with Word/Baptism — those make a Christian, this feeds one already gifted with faith. Without faith there is no partaking, and no increase of faith by that food.
Latin
Frustra item AD POSTERIUS excipitur: Homines omnes, naturâ suâ, Spiritu Sancto omnique spirituali vitâ cassos, nihilominus Spiritûs Sancti fieri participes idque mediante verbô, extrinsecè prædicato auditóque, mediante item aquæ baptismate, corpori administrato. Resp. (a) Non solam externam verbi divini prædicationem ac auditionem, nec solam aquæ baptismalis externam administrationem, sed internam Spiritus S. operationem adjunctam, corda humana regenerare & spiritualitate salvifica imbuere. (b) Cœnam S. non esse cum Verbo & Baptismate, ejusdem rationis, quandoquidem hæc Christiano vero ac genuino efficiendo, ista, jam tum effecto fideque donato inserviunt. Unde qui fide non instructus, uti corporis Christi, cibi merè spiritualis, non potest fieri particeps, ita per illud ipsum in fide corroborari & augeri nequit.