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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
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.
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.
Sutable 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 applyed, 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 interessed in all those benefits of his, which concern the being of Regeneration.
- *Treat. of the two Sacram. p. 71. Printed, 1633.
'By calling it the first Sacrament, I point at the Precedency and Order of Baptism. The which all those Names of Baptism both in Scripture, and else where do approve Its the Seed of the Church, as the other is of Food. It issued first out of the side of our Lord Jesus upon the Cross. Its the Creating Instrument of God to produce and ⟨p. 40⟩form the Lord Jesus to a New Creature, and to Regeneration in the Soul. 1Its called our Union with Christ, our Marriage Ring, our Military Press-money, our Matriculation, Cognizance and Character of Christ, our Implanting or Ingrafting into him, and his Body, our Ship, our Ark, our Red Sea, our putting on of Christ. For as all those go before our Nourishment, Communion, Cohabitation, service, Fruit, Manna, or Food from Heaven, so this Sacrament must go before the other. Breeding, Begetting and bringing out of the Womb, doth not more Naturally go before the feeding of the Infant by the mothers Breasts, then this Womb of the Youth of the Church goes before the Milk thereof; the Church being no Dry Nurse, but a Mother of her own, the Sons and Daughters of her own Womb—Let all