A47350:138
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.
4. 'If we were (Jews and Gentiles, &c.) Baptised into one Body, then we are not to delay it till we are stated in the Body: But we are all Baptised into one Body, 1 Cor. 12 13. therefore, &c. For if it be the use of Baptism to ingraft and enter us into the Body or Church (and into Christ, as Rom. 6.3.) than sure it must be used as our ingrafting and entrance. Shall a Soldier be Listed two or three years after he hath been in the Army, or at the first entrance, whether?
4. 'If we were (Jews and Gentiles, &c.) Baptised into one Body, then we are not to delay it till we are stated in the Body: But we are all Baptised into one Body, 1 Cor. 12 13. therefore, &c. For if it be the use of Baptism to ingraft and enter us into the Body or Church (and into Christ, as Rom. 6.3.) than sure it must be used as our ingrafting and entrance. Shall a Souldier be Listed two or three years after he hath been in the Army, or at the first entrance, whether?
(5.) 'If all Church Members are Christs Disciples, and all Disciples must be Baptised (at their Admission) then all Church-Members must be Baptised at their Admission: but all Church-Members are Disciples, and ⟨p. 93⟩all Disciples must be Baptised at their Admission, therefore all Church-Members must be Baptised at their Admission.
(5.) 'If all Church Members are Christs Disciples, and all Disciples must be Baptised (at their Admission) then all Church-Members must be Baptised at their Admission: but all Church-Members are Disciples, and all⟨p. 93⟩