A47350:104
A sober discourse of right to church-communion
A sober discourse of right to church-communion wherein is proved by Scripture, the example of the primitive times, and the practice of all that have professed the Christian religion, that no unbaptized person may be regularly admitted to the Lords Supper / by W. Kiffin ...A sober discourse of right to church-communion wherein is proved by Scripture, the example of the primitive times, and the practice of all that have prosessed the Christian religion, that no unbaptized person may be regularly admitted to the Lords Supper / by W. Kiffin ...
London: printed by Geo. Larkin for Enoch Prosser, 1681
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'So far this Learned Father and Martyr gives a positive account of matter of Fact in his time, from whom we may plainly be ⟨p. 68⟩informed that no Unbaptized Person was then admitted to the Lords Supper.
'So far this Learned Father and Martyr gives a positive account of matter of Fact in his time, from whom we may plainly be ⟨p. 68⟩inform'd that no Unbaptized Person was then admitted to the Lords Supper.
'Dr. Cave in his Primitive Christianity pag. 296. part, 1. Chap. 10. 3. Edition Printed 1676. Says thus, Our Lord having Instituted Baptism and the Lords Supper as the two great Sacraments of the Christian Law, they have accordingly been ever accounted principal parts of public Worship in the Christian Church;—Baptism is the Door, by which Persons Enter in, and the great and Solemn Rite of our Initiation into the Faith of Christ, &c.
'Dr. Cave in his Primitive Christianity pag. 296. part, 1. Chap. 10. 3. Edition Printed 1676. Says thus, Our Lord having Instituted Baptism and the Lords Supper as the two great Sacraments of the Christian Law, they have accordingly been ever acccounted principal parts of publick Worship in the Christian Church;—Baptism is the Door, by which Persons Enter in, and the great and Solemn Rite of our Initiation into the Faith of Christ, &c.
'The Persons by whom this Sacrament was Administered, were the Ministers of the Gospel, the Stewards of the Mysteries of Christ, Baptizing and Preaching the Gospel, being Joined together by our Saviour in the same Commission &c.