A47350:156
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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Dr. Manton in his Excellent Sermons, on Psal. 119. ver. 8- p. 45, In the prosecution of his Doctrine, viz. 'That it is a great advantage to come to a Resolution in a course of Godliness, saith that it is a course God will bless, he hath appointed Ordinances to this end and purpose that we might come to this Resolution. The Promise is first implicitly made in Baptism, therefore it is called, 1 Pet. 3.21. the answer of a good Conscience towards ⟨p. 103⟩God. How so? Why the Covenant binds mutually on Gods part and on ours; and so do the Seals which belong to the Covenant. It doth not only Seal Pardon and Sanctification on Gods part, but there is a promise and answer on our part: an answer to what? To the demands of the Covenant. In the Covenant of Grace, God saith I will be your God, (Baptism Seals that) and we promise to be his People. Now our Answer to this Demand of God, and to this Interrogatory he puts to us in the Covenant, it is Sealed by us in Baptism; and it is Renewed in the Lords Supper, &c.
Dr. Manton in his Excellent Sermons, on Psal. 119. ver. 8- p. 45, In the prosecution of his Doctrine, viz. 'That it is a great advantage to come to a Resolution in a course of Godliness, saith that it is a course God will bless, he hath appointed Ordinances to this end and purpose that we might come to this Resolution. The Promise is first implicitely made in Baptism, therefore it is called, 1 Pet. 3.21. the answer of a good Conscience towards ⟨p. 103⟩God. How so? Why the Covenant binds mutually on Gods part and on ours; and so do the Seals which belong to the Covenant. It doth not only Seal Pardon and Sanctification on Gods part, but there is a promise and answer on our part: an answer to what? To the demands of the Covenant. In the Covenant of Grace, God saith I will be your God, (Baptism Seals that) and we promise to be his People. Now our Answer to this Demand of God, and to this Interrogatory he puts to us in the Covenant, it is Sealed by us in Baptism; and it is Renewed in the Lords Supper, &c.