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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. It deserves to be seriously considered, whether the neglect of the Ordinance of Baptism doth not more arise from the want of a heart to obey God therein, by reason of the contempt put upon it, then for want of Light. Is any Ordinance of Jesus Christ in the New Testament more plain and clear than this? Are there not many more instances in the New Testament for the Practise ⟨p. 160⟩of this then the Lords Supper? For besides the Institution of it by Jesus Christ, instanced by the several Evangelists, it is but four times mentioned, viz. Act. 2.42. & 20.7. 1 Cor. 10.16. & 11.23. Whereas we find besides the Commission given by Jesus Christ, Matth. 28.19. &c. that 'tis again enjoined, Act. 2.38. & 8.38. Act. 10.48. & 16.15.33. Act. 9.18. Act. 18.8. &c. Neither do we find any one Ordinance of the Gospel so much made use of by the Apostles to incite Christians to die to sin, and live to Cod, as is largely demonstrated in the foregoing sheets, to which we refer, &c.
Answ. It deserves to be seriously considered, whether the neglect of the Ordinance of Baptism doth not more arise from the want of a heart to obey God therein, by reason of the contempt put upon it, then for want of Light. Is any Ordinance of Jesus Christ in the New Testament more plain and clear than this? Are there not many more instances in the New Testament for the Practise ⟨p. 160⟩