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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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And we find Paul himself in making the Relation of that great Providence of the Lord towards him in his Conversion, particularly mention his Baptism, Act. 22.5, to 16. and that which was required of him to be found in the Practice of, before he should go forth in the performance of that great Work he was Called unto, namely, to Preach the Gospel.
Object. 7. It is Objected, that this was in the Infancy of the Church, and is no binding Rule to us.
Answ. If that be no Rule to us, let it be shown where there is another Rule? besides do not all men of any understanding know, that this is the great ⟨p. 150⟩Argument brought to Countenance Infant Baptism: And is not this the pretence by which all those Traditions of Men in the Worship of God are brought in? How greatly is that place, 1 Cor. 14.40. abused and mistaken? Let all things be done decently and in Order. From whence men take upon them to prescribe what they please, and call it Order, imposing the same upon Mens Consciences, whereas Order and Decency there, must respect that Order which he himself had prescribed in the foregoing Verses, wherein is shown, what Order ought to be used in the improvement of those several Gifts which God hath given to that Church, in the Exercise whereof the Church might receive Edification. They especially that are afraid to comply with the Inventions of men in the Worship of God in some things, should above all others be careful of bringing in ⟨p. 151⟩any Inventions of their own in other things, lest while they build again themselves the things they Destroy in others; they make themselves Transgressors, and give that advantage to others they would not willingly do.