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A47350	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 ...	Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1681 (1681)	Wing K425; ESTC R10604	54,122	194

upon in all our Profession if it be omited the structure must needs be weak we had need rather to have our Faith strengthened in the belief of so great and essential a Truth as the Divine Essence of the Spirit is by the use of all means appointed to that end Mr. Francis Cheynel in his Learned Treatise of the Divine Trinity Printed 1650. pag. 258. quotes it as the Judgment of Iraeneus Tertullian Athanasius Basil and others of the Ancients That the Principal Fundamentals of the Christian Faith is Contained in the Form of Baptism and founded on Matt. 28.19 And in page 185. tells us If any man in Athanasius 's time asked how many persons Subsist in the Godhead they were wont to send him to Jordan and there you may hear and see the blessed Trinity Matt. 3.16 in pag. 381. God the Holy Ghost is to be obey'd we are devoted to his Service in Baptism And pag. 430. In Baptism we Christians are devoted and Consecrated to the Belief Worship and Service of God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost By which we may see what Esteem the Antients had of that Ordinance and great Reason there is for every Christian to be found in the Practice thereof seeing they are thereby Baptized into Father Son and Holy Ghost as the first Foundation of our visible Profession of Christ for as Repentance is the Visible initiating grace so Baptism is called the Baptism of Repentance as the first initiating Ordinance I have for the satisfaction of All indeavoured in the following Essay to clear this truth both from Scripture and Example as also to produce the Judgment of the Learned in all Ages As for our Modern Divines you have their own words set down faithfully by me and as for those who are more Ancient I have requested a Friend to Translate the same which I doubt not but is done Impartially And although I may expect to meet with Censures from some who will be ready to charge the Truth herein with Vncharitableness and to be of a dividing Nature yet I can with comfort and sincerity of heart in the Presence of God declare I have no other design but the preserving the Ordinances of Christ in their purity and Order as they are left unto us in the holy Scriptures of Truth and to warn the Churches To keep close to the Rule least they being found not to Worship the Lord according to his prescrib'd Order he make a Breach amongst them neither are you presented with any new Opinion but that which hath been the Judgment of all that have Professed the Christian Religion in all times so that what Censure any shall make upon it respects not us only but the servants of God of all Perswasions in all Ages and for my self as I have a witness in my own Conscience so I doubt not but I have the same also with those that know me that I have made it a great part of my Duty as I have had opportunity to persuade all Christians to Love and Peace to avoid judging and reproching each other under their differing Perswasions to turn their Heats and Passions which hath greatly abounded in our days one against another into Prayer and Supplication 〈◊〉 for another that although they differ in their Light it may not make any breach in their Love He that knows most of the mind of God knows but in part for who art thou that judgest another mans servant I shall trouble you no farther but leave the perusal of this small Essay to thy serious consideration Thine in the Service of Christ W. K. ERRATA PAge 7. line 23. read Waldenses p. 13. margent for supra r. frustra p. 18. l. 8. r. practisers p. 35. l. 20. r. dispensed p. 47. l. 19. dele of l. 24. for at r. until p. 57. l. 5. r. The Rule p. 70. l. 11. r. principles p. 75. margent l. 4. r. that they p. 83. l. 14. r. Suspiciens p. 85. l. 15. r. Catechumens p 86. l. 11. r. Yet the. l. 23. r. except p. 89. r. Baptism for p. 89. r. 87. for 92. r. 90. for 93. r. 91. for 96. r. 94. for 97. r. 95. where line 9. r. But. l. 11. r. Baptizing p. 97. l. 11. r. Initiation p. 108. l. 1. r. Judgment p. 109. l. 23. r. of Christ Commonly p. 110. l. 18. r. consequence for p. 211. r. 112. where l. 24. r. to joy in beholding last l. r. none p. 118. l. 16. dele others p. 132. l. 11. for first r. later p. 136. l. 19. dele to p. 140. l. 21. r. choice of l. 22. r. inforce p. 148. l. 10 for sheet r. street p. 153. l. 12. r. by the. p. 158. margent l. 9. dele one Law p. 144. last l. for But r. By. Litteral escapes and mispointings are left to the Candor of the Reader to Correct or Pardon THE PREFACE WHat was Praise-worthy in those Primitive Christians to whom the Apostle Paul writes 1. Cor. 11.2 Can be no Blemish but really a Duty in other Christians in after times to imitate his words are I praise you Brethren that ye remember me in all things and keep the Ordinances as I delivered them to you our Translation of the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greek Word rendring it Ordinances is excepted against by some Papists especially Gregory Martin reputed a great Linguist in the Rhemish Seminary who would have it Translated Traditions to countenance the Romish Opinion to which shall be opposed that the Greek Word signifies indeed Tradition that is in English a Delivery viz. of Doctrines Ordinances Instructions or Institutions 2. Thess 2.15 by those Evangelical Preachers to their Auditors which is nothing else but the Doctrine of the Gospel first Preached which is of the greatest and highest Authority and afterwards committed to writing by the Evangelists and Apostles as standing Records to future Ages so that any Traditions besides what is written are justly to be excepted against and in matters relating to Divine Worship to be esteem'd Apocryphal Because a Delivery of Transactions or Doctrines by Ancestors to Posterity by word of Mouth is liable to many mistakes and uncertainties by reason of the different constitutions and circumstances of men who frequently introduce that Authority to colour their Inventions or the product of their imaginary Fancies with respect to Divine Matters Though it is very apparent that such a Rule is not at all self-evidencing for it cannot prove it self nor is it Demonstrative for it has no certain Medium to Convince nor Universally True in all times and places because Reports vary every where neither is it Unerring being no where stampt with that Character and lastly not Plain for no doubting person can possibly examine all Traditions Now these are some of the properties of a General Rule to try Controversies by which being wanting in Oral Traditions the word cannot here be understood otherwise than by Ordinances or Institutions of the Gospel * So