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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.
4. It is commendable to keep the Ordinances of Christ pure, as they were delivered, because it prevents the creeping in of the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God. For (as it was before Noted) Man is naturally apt to be meddling that way, and mixing something of his own with those Sacred Institutions which God has with greatest severity prohibited, having not spared any, no not his own People, though what they have done therein seems not to be out of any wicked intentions, but rather out of an Ignorant Zeal: Of which there are many Instances in Scripture as before recited; particularly, the Memorable Cases of Nadab and Abihu, Lev. 10.2,3. Uzzah 2 Sam. 6.6,7. &c.
4. It is commendable to keep the Ordinances of Christ pure, as they were delivered, because it prevents the creeping in of the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God. For (as it was before Noted) Man is naturally apt to be medling that way, and mixing something of his own with those Sacred Institutions which God has with greatest severity prohibited, having not spared any, no not his own People, though what they have done therein seems not to be out of any wicked intentions, but rather out of an Ignorant Zeal: Of which there are many Instances in Scripture as before recited; particularly, the Memorable Cases of Nadab and Abihu, Lev. 10.2,3. Uzzah 2 Sam. 6.6,7. &c.
Suitable hereto Mr. Burroughs very excellently expresses himself in his Book entitled Gospel-Worship, or the Right Manner of Sanctifying the Name of God, pag 8, 9, &c.
Suitable hereto Mr. Burroughs very excellently expresses himself in his Book intituled Gospel-Worship, or the Right Manner of Sanctifying the Name of God, pag 8, 9, &c.