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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
Chapter 5: Wherein the Objections against this Position viz. That none may be Regularly admitted t…
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CHAP. V. Wherein the Objections against this Position viz. That none may be Regularly admitted to the Lords Supper, that are not first Baptized, are Answered.
Obj. 1. There is no Rule, or express Warrant of Scripture to Exclude Persons fearing God, from receiving the Lords Supper, who by virtue of their Faith have a Right to it.
Obj. 1. THere is no Rule, or express Warrant of Scripture to Exclude Persons fearing God, from receiving the Lords Supper, who by vertue of their Faith have a Right to it.
Answ. This Objection supposes things very dangerous. As,
1. That Holiness without Baptism invests a Right to other Church Ordinances, which is not to be supposed, for Christ the Lamb of God was Holy in the Highest Degree, and in him ⟨p. 119⟩was found no Sin, yet he was Baptized before he entered upon his Public Ministry,1