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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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2. If the Baptism of the Spirit had been meant, then the being Baptised into one Body, and Drinking into one Spirit, must be one and the same thing, but surely Baptising and Drinking are no more the same, than the Body and the Spirit are the same, into which they are said respectively to be Baptised, and to Drink. But it is clear the Apostle hereby intends to mind those Corinthians, how that by means of the same Spirit working upon all their Hearts, they became Members of the same ⟨p. 135⟩Body by Baptism, and that being of the Body, they came to have Communion in Spirit, or with the Spirit in the Supper.
It cannot be the Baptism of the Spirit, because the Spirit is here set forth by the Apostle, as the Agent or working Cause, and Baptism as the Effect; and it is ridiculous to make both Cause and Effect the same thing. It is true the Scripture speaks elsewhere of a being Baptised with the Spirit, but when it doth so, it still declares either Jesus Christ, or God the Father as the Agent of Baptising with the Spirit, but never as making the Spirit both the Subject Matter wherewith, and the Agent whereby, men are Baptised in the same Baptism, see Matth. 3.11. Mark 1.8. Luk. 3.16. and 24.49. Act. 11.4,5,16.
We find in Scripture that when God chargeth men for sin, he tells them, They did that which