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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.
And in the Seventh Century, Isidorus de Officiis makes Three Degrees. The First is, 'Of the Catechumens, who were such as were first come from Gentilism, and had a mind to believe in Christ. The Second of Competents, who desire Baptism, when they were instructed in the Doctrine of Christ. And the Third, of the Baptized, who were then Church-Members.
And in the Seventh Century, Isidorus de Officiis makes Three Degrees. The First is, 'Of the Cathecumens, who were such as were first come from Gentilism, and had a mind to believe in Christ. The Second of Competents, who desire Baptism, when they were instructed in the Doctrine of Christ. And the Third, of the Baptized, who were then Church-Members.
Haymo says, in Century Nine,* 'That the Catechumens are the Faithful, because they Believe in the true God; but because they are not Baptized, they are not Holy.
Haymo says, in Century Nine,* 'That the Catechumes are the Faithful, because they Believe in the true God; but because they are not Baptized, they are not Holy.
- *In cap. 1. ad Ephes. Catechumeni sunt fideles quia credunt in verum Deum; sed quia nondum baptizati, non sunt Sancti.
But what needs any more of these Quotations, when all that know any thing of the practise of Antiquity must confess, That this Opinion we oppose, was never in the World for Sixteen hundred years and more. For