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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
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(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.)
(2.) 'If they say they must be Baptised after they are stated in the Church (and that many years as they would have it) I answer (1.) Show any Scripture for that if you can. (2.) It is contrary to all Scripture Example, Act. 2. The three thousand were presently Baptised, and the Jailer at the same hour of the night, and so of all the rest. And if you could show any that did delay it, (since Christs Command, Matth. 28.20.) It would appear to have been sinful, as through Ignorance or Negligence; so that then it must needs be done at their first Admittance according to the constant course of Scripture.
(2.) 'If they say they must be Baptised after they are stated in the Church (and that many years as they would have it) I answer (1.) Shew any Scripture for that if you can. (2.) It is contrary to all Scripture Example, Act. 2. The three thousand were presently Baptised, and the Jaylor at the same hour of the night, and so of all the rest. And if you could shew any that did delay it, (since Christs Command, Matth. 28.20.) It would appear to have been sinful, as through Ignorance or Negligence; so that then it must needs be done at their first Admittance according to the constant course of Scripture.