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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. 8. A main thing built upon, is, that Union with Christ gives a Right to all the Ordinances of Christ.
Object. 8. A main thing built upon, is, that Ʋnion with Christ gives a Right to all the Ordinances of Christ.
Answ. It is readily granted, that Union with Christ, signified by a visible Profession of Faith gives a man Right to Baptism, and having this Union and being baptized, they have a Right to Church Fellowship, and the Lords Supper, &c. but that by virtue of Union with Christ they have a right to the Lords Supper; and accordingly to partake of the same before they are Baptized is Denied from the Reasons already given,⟨p. 152⟩nor can it any where be proved.
Answ. It is readily granted, that Union with Christ, signifyed by a visible Profession of Faith gives a man Right to Baptism, and having this Union and being baptized, they have a Right to Church Fellowship, and the Lords Supper, &c. but that by vertue of Union with Christ they have a right to the Lords Supper; and accordingly to partake of the same before they are Baptized is Deny'd from the Reasons already given,⟨p. 152⟩nor can it any where be proved.
This may be plainly illustrated by this similitude. A Child, by being the Eldest Son of his Father, has a Right to his Fathers Estate as Heir thereof, as soon as his Father is dead, but yet for the actual Possession thereof, there is required his coming to Age, till which time he cannot Possess that Right; the Law requiring this as the Order by which he is to come to the enjoyment thereof. So though Union with Christ gives a man a Right to all the Ordinances of Christ, yet are they to be enjoyed in that Order which the Law prescribeth.