A47350:143
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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(2) 'Argument 2. from 1. Cor. 12,13. By one Spirit we are all Baptized into one Body. If Baptism be Gods appointed ordinary ⟨p. 96⟩way of ingrafting all into the Body of Christ, then it is a standing Ordinance, as being of a standing use: but Baptism is so, therefore, &c. the Antecedent will appear plain in the Text, if you consider, First, that it is real Baptism that is here mentioned; the Spirit being spoken of as a concurrent cause; Secondly, That it was All that were thus baptized into the body.
(3) 'From Rom. 6.3. If the use of Baptism be to baptise Men into Jesus Christ, and into his Death, then it is a standing Ordinance to the Church, as being of a standing use: but the former is in the Text, therefore, &c.
4. 'From Act. 2.38. & 22.16. If Baptism be Instituted for the Remission of sin, or the Washing away of sin (whether by signifying Sealing or exhibiting) then it is a standing Ordinance to the Church; (as being to ⟨p. 97⟩a standing Use and End, one Age of the Church having no less need of it then another.) But the Antecedent is in the Text; therefore, &c.