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Pilgrim said:

What is important, is that the biblical injunction be followed and nothing added to it, 1) as does the "Confession", which Williamson quotes, which has appended, "or be admitted thereunto" and 2) the "tradition" to which he says, "an earlier practice that was virtually universal among the Reformed Churches". Thus the invitation to the Supper is to be made to ALL who profess Christ and who have examined themselves rightly. The local congregation can only forbid those individuals who are under its care and are known to be under discipline and/or who are known to be unrepentant of a known sin. Likewise, those who are KNOWN to be under discipline of another congregation are to be likewise forbidden. But other than this, there is no warrant nor authority given to forbid individuals from partaking of the Supper.

Pilgrim,

In most of the churches I have attended part of the warning was that the believer should have been united with a local body of believers (church, but not necessarily the current church). And in all the churches I have attended, membership required one to be baptized. Do you believe that it is necessary to be part of a church and/or be baptized to take communion? I think both of these are clear commands in the New Testament, so if one was not baptized and/or not united to a local body of believers would you consider this a "a known sin"?

John