A47350:73
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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'Pag. 81. The Lords Scope in Baptism is an inward Grace, but this general Privilege is to all equal, viz. A badge of an outward Member: distinction from the common Rout of the World, out of the Pale of the Church. The Lord appointed Circumcision as a Seal of the Righteousness of Faith chiefly: yet as an over-plus he allowed it to be the Differencer of all other Nations ⟨p. 44⟩from the Jews. It was a Fence and Wall of Separation from them in all their Converse. So is Baptism now a mark or badge of external Communion: whereby the Lord settles a Right upon the Person to his Ordinances, that he may comfortably use them as his own Privilege, and wait for the inward Prerogative of Saints by them. And yet this (as much as men boast of it) is but a shell in respect of the other. So far he.
'Pag. 81. The Lords Scope in Baptism is an inward Grace, but this general Priviledge is to all equal, viz. A badge of an outward Member: distinction from the common Rout of the World, out of the Pale of the Church. The Lord appointed Circumcision as a Seal of the Righteousness of Faith chiefly: yet as an over-plus he allowed it to be the Differencer of all other Nations from⟨p. 44⟩the Jews. It was a Fence and Wall of Separation from them in all their Converse. So is Baptism now a mark or badge of external Communion: whereby the Lord settles a Right upon the Person to his Ordinances, that he may comfortably use them as his own Priviledge, and wait for the inward Prerogative of Saints by them. And yet this (as much as men boast of it) is but a shell in respect of the other. So far he.
Again, Baptism holds out the Souls Interest in the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ in a more special manner then any other Ordinance, it is called the Stipulation or Answer of a good Conscience, by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the Dead;1 that is, when a Conscience appeased and pacified with the discharge of Sin, can cry Abba Father with a holy security, and speak to God himself, &c. Now this