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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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And if the Servants of God in those times were so Cautious of doing any thing that might be an Addition to the Worship of God, although but in a Circumstance: how much ought Christians Now when the Matter is about the very Order of the Practise of Ordinances themselves; for here in the Case in hand, is a most evident leaving the Practice of Christ and his Apostles, and following the Inventions of Men.
2. The Commission given ⟨p. 122⟩by Christ Matt. 28.19. Go teach all Nations Baptizing them, &c. hath been an Argument of great weight in the minds of all that oppose Infant Baptism; the order of the words showing who are to be baptized, viz. Such as are taught First Teach, then Baptize: and if it be an Argument, that proves Believers baptism only, It must have its Consideration, That Baptism must go before the Practice of other Ordinances, as Preaching goes before Baptism.
2. The Commission given by⟨p. 122⟩Christ Matt. 28.19. Go teach all Nations Baptizing them, &c. hath been an Argument of great weight in the minds of all that oppose Infant Baptism; the order of the words shewing who are to be baptized, viz. Such as are taught First Teach, then Baptize: and if it be an Argument, that proves Believers baptism only, It must have its Consideration, That Baptism must go before the Practice of other Ordinances, as Preaching goes before Baptism.