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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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Answ. There is no good Reason can be given, or to suppose that⟨p. 147⟩ Paul was admitted to Communion with the Church, until the Church had knowledge either from himself, Barnabas, or some other, of his having obeyed the Gospel in Embracing the first Principles of it; of which Baptism is one, Heb. 6.2. For how should they know him to be a Disciple of Christ and so meet for Communion with them, but by knowing that he had at least done the first things of a Disciple, of which we find all along the History of the Acts of the Apostles, a Being Baptized, to be one, and doubtless less satisfaction would not have served them concerning him, than would concerning another Disciple who had never appeared in that height of opposition against them, as he had done.
Answ. There is no good Reason can be given, or to suppose that⟨p. 147⟩ Paul was admitted to Communion with the Church, until the Church had knowledg either from himself, Barnabus, or some other, of his having obey'd the Gospel in Embracing the first Principles of it; of which Baptism is one, Heb. 6.2. For how should they know him to be a Disciple of Christ and so meet for Communion with them, but by knowing that he had at least done the first things of a Disciple, of which we find all along the History of the Acts of the Apostles, a Being Baptized, to be one, and doubtless less satisfaction would not have served them concerning him, than would concerning another Disciple who had never appeared in that height of opposition against them, as he had done.
Again, when the Text tells us, That Barnabas declared unto them, how he had seen the Lord in the way, and had spoken to him; can ⟨p. 148⟩