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Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in…
Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in the churches of New-England. : With interspersed and instructive reflections on the discipline of the primitive churches. : [Seven lines from Ezekiel]
Boston: printed for S. Gerrish, 1726
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Adult Persons are not therefore to be admitted into full Communion, merely because they are and continue Members, [being Baptised in their Infancy] without such further Qualifications as the Word of GOD requireth thereunto. And from Reading the large Defence thereof composed by Mr. Richard Mother ⟨p. 84⟩and Mr. Jonathan Mitchel, and approved by no small Assembly of the New English Ministers.
Adult Persons are not therefore to be admitted into full Communion, meerly because they are and continue Members, [being Baptised in their Infancy] without such further Qualifications as the Word of GOD requireth thereunto. And from Reading the large Defence thereof composed by Mr. Richard Mother ⟨p. 84⟩and Mr. Jonathan Mitchel, and approved by no small Assembly of the New English Ministers.
And yet, it must be acknowledged, that a great Part of our Pastors, even of those who can Baptise upon the Qualifications of the Synod, own, they can't see why any Adult Person should be received into the Covenant of GOD and of Grace, to obtain Baptism for themselves or theirs, of whom they cannot say, They shall immediately be welcome to the Table of the Lord, if they desire it; and that it must be owing unto their own declining an immediate Approach unto the Holy and Awful Table, if it be denied unto them. All turns upon a Visible Conversion to serious PIETY.
And yet, it must be acknowledged, that a great Part of our Pastors, even of those who can Baptise upon the Qualifications of the Synod, own, they can't see why any Adult Person should be received into the Covenant of GOD and of Grace, to obtain Baptism for themselves or theirs, of whom they cannot say, They shall immediately be welcome to the Table of the Lord, if they desire it; and that it must be owing unto their own declining an immediate Approach unto the Holy and Aweful Table, if it be denied unto them. All turns upon a Visible Conversion to serious PIETY.