A free, plain, and just way concerning communion and excommunication, at, or from the Lords table.: With a Christian account concerning the same. With answers to the objections to the contrary. In which is shewed, that the Church to day hath no more power to excommunicate from the Lords table, then it had yesterday power to separate from the altar, unto which sinners were exhorted by the church to go; whereby they might (as they are required at the Lords table) perfect their praises and repentance. And that the pretended differences in baptism, are no just ground of separation. / Written by William Kaye, with Christians approbation, with submission to the general oversight.
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A free, plain, and just way concerning communion and excommunication, at, or from the Lords table.: With a Christian account concerning the same. With answers to the objections to the contrary. In which is shewed, that the Church to day hath no more power to excommunicate from the Lords table, then it had yesterday power to separate from the altar, unto which sinners were exhorted by the church to go; whereby they might (as they are required at the Lords table) perfect their praises and repentance. And that the pretended differences in baptism, are no just ground of separation. / Written by William Kaye, with Christians approbation, with submission to the general oversight.
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Kaye, William.
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[London :: s.n.],
Printed in the year, 1655.
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Excommunication
Lord's Supper
Baptism
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"A free, plain, and just way concerning communion and excommunication, at, or from the Lords table.: With a Christian account concerning the same. With answers to the objections to the contrary. In which is shewed, that the Church to day hath no more power to excommunicate from the Lords table, then it had yesterday power to separate from the altar, unto which sinners were exhorted by the church to go; whereby they might (as they are required at the Lords table) perfect their praises and repentance. And that the pretended differences in baptism, are no just ground of separation. / Written by William Kaye, with Christians approbation, with submission to the general oversight." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A87701.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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Obj. 6. This brings us unto the old way again.
Ans. If by the old way be meant that we should observe that old way that Christ and his Apostles, and Primitive Churches, and their successors for six hundred yeers after Christ observed, when were Golden Pastors,
and Christians did often receive with gladness of heart, praising God, living in simplicity, sinceri∣ty, and holiness; it were a mercy then to see this good and old path, for which our Martyrs contended for, restored:
For as we have more and more digressed from the old way, we have by little and little, run into the wayes of Schism, causeless sepa∣ration, errors and profaness, so that Christianity is almost brought to prophesie in sackcloth, and that he that opposeth error maketh himself a prey, if not a signe and wonder. Therefore if God intend to bless this Nation with his wonted presence, when Christians unitedly, and faithfully according to their light did communicate, then we shall see the old way again restored, and so we shall be called the repairers of the Breaches.