A47350:60
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. III. Shows that this Practice of admitting Unbaptized Persons to the Lords Supper, is against Scripture.
CHAP. III. Shews that this Practice of admitting Unbaptized Persons to the Lords Supper, is against Scripture.
TO Demonstrate this Truth we shall add some further enforcements from that Text before-mentioned, viz. 1 Cor. 11.2. Now I praise you Brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the *Ordinances as I delivered them unto you.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]. Syriac. Mandatum, a Command. Institutum, an Ordinance, Rivet. Praecepta mea tenetis, and keep my Precepts. Montanus.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Syriack. Mandatum, a Command. Institutum, an Ordinance, Rivet. Praecepta mea tenetis, and keep my Precepts. Montanus.
The Apostle having in the foregoing Chapter, verse 14. exhorted them to fly from Idolatry, showing the great danger of mixture in the Worship of God, in verse 22. brings them to consider the danger; Do we provoke ⟨p. 34⟩the Lord to *jealousy? Are we stronger than he? And ver. 23. to prevent all mistakes showeth that in things of an indifferent Nature, there might be a lawful use of them provided therein all occasion of offence were avoided. And elsewhere (viz.