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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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The Apostle tells us Gal. 3.27. That so many of you (or as some render it) all ye that are Baptised into Christ, have put on Christ, that is, they have *put on Christ as a Garment, and by Baptism have put on the visible Profession of Christ, plainly holding out, that none have put on the visible Profession of Christ until they be Baptized; the outward Sign, answering to the inward Grace, so Rom. 6.3. Know ye not that we who were Baptised into Jesus Christ, were Baptised into his Death: which Baptism is a pledge of—Can it therefore be judged upon any Reasonable pretence that any man should be Admitted to Walk in the Practise of the Ordinances of Christ, before he hath put on Christ in the visible Profession of his Name by Baptism.
The Apostle tells us Gal. 3.27. That so many of you (or as some render it) all yee that are Baptised into Christ, have put on Christ, that is, they have *put on Christ as a Garment, and by Baptism have put on the visible Profession of Christ, plainly holding out, that none have put on the visible Profession of Christ until they be Baptized; the outward Sign, answering to the inward Grace, so Rom. 6.3. Know ye not that we who were Baptised into Jesus Christ, were Baptised into his Death: which Baptism is a pledge of—Can it therefore be judged upon any Reasonable pretence that any man should be Admitted to Walk in the Practise of the Ordinances of Christ, before he hath put on Christ in the visible Profession of his Name by Baptism.
- *The Verb [Greek or Hebrew] signifies to put on as a Garment. Liegh Crit. Sacr.The Verb 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies to put on as a Garment. Liegh Crit. Sacr.