A47350:130
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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If the Testimony of Ancient▪ Records, and Modern Writers of all sorts, unanimously makes out that there has not been any other Practise in Fact among Christians all along, than what we here demonstrate, though that is not brought by it self to prove the same, it is certainly a very fair Collateral enforcement and illustration: For there is no point of Religion debated in the World, that has a more clear and Universal concurrence of sixteen hundred years complete, than, that no persons were received to the Communion of the Lords Supper or Church-Fellowship, unless they were first Baptised. Yea such a value had Antiquity for this Ordinance, that such as were Baptised by Heretics, as the Arians and others, that used not the name of Christ, or (otherwise) defectively performed it, were judged by the most Learned men ⟨p. 89⟩of their times to be Unbaptized, and therefore were Baptised again by such as were Orthodox, when they left their Heresies, which is so well known that it needs no instances,
If the Testimony of Ancient▪ Records, and Modern Writers of all sorts, unanimously makes out that there has not been any other Practise in Fact among Christians all along, than what we here demonstrate, though that is not brought by it self to prove the same, it is certainly a very fair Collateral in•orcement and illustration: For there is no point of Religion debated in the World, that has a more clear and Universal concurrence of sixteen hundread years compleat, than, that no persons were received to the Communion of the Lords Supper or Church-Fellowship, unless they were first Baptised. Yea such a value had Antiquity for this Ordinance, that such as were Baptised by Hereticks, as the Arians and others, that used not the name of Christ, or (otherwise) defectively performed it, were judged by the most Learned men ⟨p. 89⟩of their times to be Unbaptized, and therefore were Baptised again by such as were Orthodox, when they left their Heresies, which is so well known that it needs no instances,