A47350:69
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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3. Because it preserves the Beauty of the House of God: For whatsoever is prescribed by the Lord Jesus, with respect to his Worship, is full of Beauty, Harmony, and Order, every thing answering its respective end, and what is signified thereby: and as Grace shines in its lustre in the orderly exercise thereof; so do the Ordinances of Christ: For as Regeneration is the first work of God upon the Soul, in order to the exercise of the Graces of Christ given, so hath he appointed Baptism, as that which is the first Ordinance to be Practised, which doth more particularly, than any other Ordinance in the signification of it, hold out, and visibly represent our New Birth, and therefore is called the Baptism of Repentance, Mark 1.4. Luk. 3.3.
3. Because it preserves the Beauty of the House of God: For whatsoever is prescribed by the Lord Jesus, with respect to his Worship, is full of Beauty, Harmony, and Order, every thing answering its respective end, and what is signified thereby: and as Grace shines in its lustre in the orderly exercise thereof; so do the Ordinances of Christ: For as Regeneration is the first work of God upon the Soul, in order to the exercise of the Graces of Christ given, so hath he appointed Baptism, as that which is the first Ordinance to be Practised, which doth more particularly, than any other Ordidinance in the signification of it, hold out, and visibly represent our New Birth, and therefore is called the Baptism of Repentance, Mark 1.4. Luk. 3.3.
Suitable hereunto does that Learned and Eminent Divine Mr. Daniel Rogers express himself. *'Baptism then is the First Sacrament of the Gospel, consisting of Water, which is Sacramentally Christ; or wherein by Water duly applied, not only the presented party is made a Member of the visible Church; but also Sealed up to an invisible Union with Christ, and thereby interested in all those benefits of his, which concern the being of Regeneration.