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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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From this we may with much Assurance infer, that we are under an indispensable Obligation to be found in the Practice of this one Baptism, which holds forth our Interest in, and Profession of this one God and Father, one Lord Jesus Christ, and one Spirit, into whose Name we are Commanded to be Baptised, Matth. 28.19. &c. The Objector supposes the bare Belief (without the visible Profession) of Baptism, is enough; which indeed is not so: because the Nature and Constitution of this Ordinance is purely Practical by virtue of a positive Precept, and no pretence of a ⟨p. 158⟩speculative Belief will excuse the neglect of it; any more than the neglect of an Exercise of Faith respecting any other of the six points, which the Holy Spirit has joined with it.1
From this we may with much Assurance infer, that we are under an indispensable Obligation to be found in the Practice of this one Baptism, which holds forth our Interest in, and Profession of this one God and Father, one Lord Jesus Christ, and one Spirit, into whose Name we are Commanded to be Baptised, Matth. 28.19. &c. The Objector supposes the bare Belief (without the visible Profession) of Baptism, is enough; which indeed is not so: because the Nature and Constitution of this Ordinance is purely Practical by vertue of a positive Precept, and no pretence of a speculative⟨p. 158⟩Belief will excuse the neglect of it; any more than the neglect of an Exercise of Faith respecting any other of the six points, which the Holy Spirit has joyned with it.1
- 1The Ancients tell us the Form of Baptism when they Expound, Eph. 4.5. One Law.The Antients tell us the Form of Baptism when they Expound,