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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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From the whole of which we infer, in answer to the Objection That our Practice suitable to ⟨p. 25⟩these Precepts and Examples, are a sufficient Rule and Warrant for our not admitting them to the Lords Supper, and to call for Scripture Precepts or Examples for refusing them, is very absurd; For we may as well call for the like to Warrant our Separation from the Church of Rome by Name, which can be produced no more then this, yet it does not follow, that Communion with that Church, as now it is, is Lawful. Scripture Examples are matter of Fact; and therefore, there having been no such corrupt Practice crept into the world when the Scripture was written, therefore there was no occasion for any baptized Person to disclaim Communion with the Unbaptized; there being no such Cause of which to make an Example.
From the whole of which we infer, in answer to the Objection That our Practice suitable to these⟨p. 25⟩Precepts and Examples, are a sufficient Rule and Warrant for our not admitting them to the Lords Supper, and to call for Scripture Precepts or Examples for refusing them, is very absurd; For we may as well call for the like to Warrant our Separation from the Church of Rome by Name, which can be produced no more then this, yet it does not follow, that Communion with that Church, as now it is, is Lawful. Scripture Examples are matter of Fact; and therefore, there having been no such corrupt Practice crept into the world when the Scripture was written, therefore there was no occasion for any baptized Person to disclaim Communion with the Unbaptized; there being no such Cause of which to make an Example.
Obj. 2. But we admit none to the Supper of the Lord, but those ⟨p. 126⟩that think they are Baptised already, and Judg what they received in their Infancy sufficient.