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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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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 ⟨p. 136⟩he commanded not, neither did it enter in his heart. Now that this was the Order of Administration with respect to these Ordinances, viz. 1. To Teach, then Baptise, and then Admit to Church-Communion, is else where fully Evidenced from Precept and Example, Matth. 28.19. Act. 2.41. &c. And if that be the stated Method of God, and the Universal Practise of the Primitive Christians, we may Rationally infer that the contrary Practise is a Deviation from the Divine Rule, and a thing which God Commanded not.
We find in Scripture that when God chargeth men for sin, he tells them, They did that which he⟨p. 136⟩