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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
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That it is Practise praise worthy for the Churches of Jesus Christ to preserve and keep the Ordinances of Christ, as they have been delivered by Christ and his Apostles to them. because,
1. We hereby advance the Wisdom of Jesus Christ, who hath in his House ordered all things so, to the effecting of those ends for which he hath appointed them, that there is no necessity of mans Additions, either with respect to the matter of them, or the Order and Method in which they are disposed. Now the Church of Christ is his House, and his Wisdom shines greatly, not only in the Food he hath provided for them, but in the way by which they receive it from him, there being nothing that⟨p. 36⟩intrencheth more upon the Wisdom of God, than that (when he hath prescribed a method in his Word) men should presume to alter or change the same; it being a much greater sin than the bare Omission of any Duty, for by our Omissions we show only our weakness and shortness of what we should know and do; but by Additions, we cast a blemish upon the Wisdom of Christ, as if we were wiser to order things than he.
1. We hereby advance the Wisdom of Jesus Christ, who hath in his House ordered all things so, to the effecting of those ends for which he hath appointed them, that there is no necessity of mans Additions, either with respect to the matter of them, or the Order and Method in which they are disposed. Now the Church of Christ is his House, and his Wisdom shines greatly, not only in the Food he hath provided for them, but in the way by which they receive it from him, there being nothing that⟨p. 36⟩intrencheth more upon the Wisdom of God, than that (when he hath prescribed a method in his Word) men should presume to alter or change the same; it being a much greater sin than the bare Omission of any Duty, for by our Omissions we shew only our weakness and shortness of what we should know and do; but by Additions, we cast a blemish upon the Wisdom of Christ, as if we were wiser to order things than he.