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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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Object. 4. Whereas some infer from 1 Cor. 12.13. By one Spirit we are all Baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Gentiles, Bond or Free, and have been all made to Drink into one Spirit, &c. That Baptism is the Inchurching Ordinance, the conclusion is impertinent, for not Water Baptism, but the Baptism of the Spirit is there meant.
Ans. That Baptism was of so constant and Universal use to the Enchurching of all sorts Ranks and Degrees, is fairly deduced from this Text, however excepted against; and that none were Inchurched without it, unless any man can find or name some persons that ⟨p. 133⟩were neither Jews nor Gentiles, Bond nor Free, which denotes plainly, that all sorts were received by Baptism: the Jews though before Circumcised, yet were Baptized; the Gentiles, some times a People a far off were upon their believing by Baptism received. If free, as Masters, yet not admitted without it; If Bond, as Servants, yet by this Ordinance they were made equally of the same Church Privilege by Baptism, Gal. 3.27,28.
Ans. That Baptism was of so constant and Universal use to the Enchurching of all sorts Ranks and Degrees, is fairly deduced from this Text, however excepted against; and that none were Inchurched without it, unless any man can find or name some persons that ⟨p. 133⟩were neither Jews nor Gentiles, Bond nor Free, which denotes plainly, that all sorts were receiv'd by Baptism: the Jews though before Circumcised, yet were Baptized; the Gentiles, some times a People a far off were upon their believing by Baptism received. If free, as Masters, yet not admitted without it; If Bond, as Servants, yet by this Ordinance they were made equally of the same Church Priviledge by Baptism,