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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.
'I know not what in any show of Reason can be said to this by those that renounce not Scripture. For what man dare go in a way which hath neither Precept nor Example to warrant it, from a Way that hath a full Current of both? yet they that will admit Members into the Visible Church without Baptism, do so.
'I know not what in any shew of Reason can be said to this by those that renounce not Scripture. For what man dare go in a way which hath neither Precept nor Example to warrant it, from a Way that hath a full Current of both? yet they that will admit Members into the Visible Church without Baptism, do so.
2. 'Either Members must be Baptized at their Admission or else after they are stated in the Church, or else never. But the two later are false: therefore it must be the former way, viz. at their admission.
(1.) 'That they should ⟨p. 93⟩never be Baptised, none will affirm but the Seekers, and they that are above Ordinances (that is, above obedience to God, and so Gods.)
(1.) 'That they should never⟨p. 93⟩be Baptised, none will affirm but the Seekers, and they that are above Ordinances (that is, above obedience to God, and so Gods.)