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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. And if it be said, That this Exhortation, let as many Servants as &c. doth intentionally respect so many Believing Servants as were under to Yoke; and that therefore in respect of other Believers it is partitive.
Answ. If that be granted there will be more gained than otherwise: for then it may well be said, that those Texts, Rom. 6.3. Gall. 3.27. Intentionally, only respected those at Rome and Galatia, who did Believe, and were Baptized; and therefore is partitive in respect of others, the Inhabitants of those ⟨p. 146⟩places, dividing those of the Churches, from others dwelling in the same places, who were not of those Churches.
Answ. If that be granted there will be more gained than otherwise: for then it may well be said, that those Texts, Rom. 6.3. Gall. 3.27. Intentionally, only respected those at Rome and Gallatia, who did Believe, and were Baptized; and therefore is partitive in respect of others, the Inhabitants of those ⟨p. 146⟩places, dividing those of the Churches, from others dwelling in the same places, who were not of those Churches.
Object. 6. If it be Objected from Act. 9.26. That we find not there, when Paul was presented to the Church at Jerusalem, and Assayed to join himself to the Disciples, that the Church made any inquiry whether he was Baptized or no, in order to his Reception amongst them; or that Barnabas in giving satisfaction to the Apostles and the Church concerning his meetness to be admitted into Communion with them, so much as mentions his being Baptized, but only declareth unto them, how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had Preached boldly at Damascus in the Name of Jesus.