A47350:108
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
'Then page 305. After he had Discoursed of Infant Baptism, adds that those who made up the main Body of the Baptized in those days were Adult Persons, who flocking over daily to the Faith of Christ, were Received in at this Door. Usually they were for some considerable time Catechised and Trained up in the Principle of the Christian Faith, till having given Testimony of their Proficiency in knowledge—and of a sober and Regular Conversation, they then became Candidates for Baptism, and were accordingly taken in &c.
'Then page 305. After he had Discoursed of Infant Baptism, adds that those who made up the main Body of the Baptized in those days were Adult Persons, who flocking over daily to the Faith of Christ, were Received in at this Door. Usually they were for some considerable time Catechi'sd and Train'd up in the Principle of the Christian Faith, till having given Testimony of their Proficiency in knowledge—and of a sober and Regular Conversation, they then bebecame Candidates for Baptism, and were accordingly taken in &c.
'Page 308. Persons finding themselves at any time surprised with a dangerous or mortal sickness and not daring to pass into another World without this Badge of their Initiation into Christ, they presently signified their earnest desire to be Baptized, ⟨p. 71⟩which was done accordingly as well as the Circumstances of a sick Bed would permit. These were called Clinici of (whom there is frequent mention in the Ancient Writers of the Church) because *Baptized as they lay along in their Beds. This was accounted a less Solemn and perfect kind of Baptism, partly because 'twas not done by Immersion, but by Sprinkling &c.
'Page 308. Persons finding themselves at any time surprized with a dangerous or mortal sickness and not daring to pass into another World without this Badge of their Initiation into Christ, they presently signified their earnest desire to be Baptized, ⟨p. 71⟩