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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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Quest. Whereas it may be further Queried. Whether one Ordinance gives a Right to the enjoyment of another?
Quest. Whereas it may be further Queryed. Whether one Ordinance gives a Right to the enjoyment of another?
Answ. It is answered, no; For we have before proved that all Ordinances are to be observed in that Order which the Appointer of them hath prescribed; from which we ought not to vary. For as Circumcision was the first Ordinance to be Administered before they might be partakers of the Passover although it gave not a Right to the Passover, yet might not any partake of it (before they were Circumcised) without sin: So also in the New Testament,⟨p. 159⟩Baptism is the first Ordinance to be Administered by the direction and appointment of God, without which, the Supper of the Lord may not be received without Sin. All that is pleaded for by this, is the Orderly observation of the New Testament Ordinances.
Answ. It is answered, no; For we have before proved that all Ordinances are to be observed in that Order which the Appointer of them hath prescribed; from which we ought not to vary. For as Circumcision was the first Ordinance to be Administred before they might be partakers of the Passeover although it gave not a Right to the Passeover, yet might not any partake of it (before they were Circumcised) without sin: So also in the New Testament,⟨p. 159⟩Baptism is the first Ordinance to be Administred by the direction and appointment of God, without which, the Supper of the Lord may not be received without Sin. All that is pleaded for by this, is the Orderly observation of the New Testament Ordinances.