A47350:82
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.
Page 11. 'In the matters of Worship God stands up little things, such things as seem to be very small and little to us, yet God stands much upon them in the matter of Worship. For there is nothing wherein the Prerogative of God doth more appear, then in Worship, as Princes stand much upon their Prerogatives.—There are—things in the Worship of ⟨p. 51⟩God that are not written in our hearts, that only depend upon the will of God Revealed in his Word; which were no Duties except they were Revealed there. And these are of such a nature, as we can see no Reason for, but only this, Because God will have them.—Though men would think it a little matter whether this Fire, or that Fire, and will not this burn as well as that? •t God stands upon it.—When Uzzah did but touch the Ark, when it was ready to fall, we would think it no great matter; but one touch of the Ark cost him his life. There is not a minim in the Worship of God, but God stands mightily upon it.—For a man *to gather a few sticks (on the Sabbath) what great great matter was it? But God stands upon it. So when the men of Bethshemesh did but look into the Ark, it cost the Lives ⟨p. 52⟩of fifty thousand and seventy men, &c.
Page 11. 'In the matters of Worship God stands up little things, such things as seem to be very small and little to us, yet God stands much upon them in the matter of Worship. For there is nothing wherein the Prerogative of God doth more appear, then in Worship, as Princes stand much upon their Prerogatives.—There are—things in the Worship of God⟨p. 51⟩that are not written in our hearts, that only depend upon the will of God Revealed in his Word; which were no Duties except they were Revealed there. And these are of such a nature, as we can see no Reason for, but only this, Because God will have them.—Though men would think it a little matter whether this Fire, or that Fire, and will not this burn as well as that? •t God stands upon it.—When Ʋzzah did but touch the Ark, when it was ready to fall, we would think it no great matter; but one touch of the Ark cost him his life. There is not a minnim in the Worship of God, but God stands mightily upon it.—For a man