DOCTOR DODDRIDGE says: "It is certain that so far as our knowledge of primitive antiquity reaches, no unbaptized person received the Lord's Supper." _Lectures, pp. 511, 512._ DOCTOR DICK says: "An uncircumcised man was not permitted to eat the Passover; and an unbaptized man should not be permitted to partake of the Eucharist." _Theol., Vol. II., p. 220._ DOCTOR BAXTER says: "What man dares go in a way which hath neither precept nor example to warrant it, from a way that hath full current of both? Yet they that will admit members into the visible church without baptism do so." _Plain Scripture Proof, p. 24._ DOCTOR DWIGHT, President of Yale College, and author of "Systematic Theology," says: "It is an indispensable qualification for this ordinance that the candidate for communion be a member of the visible church in full standing. By this, I intend that he should be a man of piety; that he should have made a public profession of religion, and that he should have been baptized." _Syst. Theol., Ser. 160, B. 8, Ch. 4. Sec. 7._ DOCTOR GRIFFIN, one of the fathers of New England Congregationalism, says: "I agree with the advocates of close communion on two points: 1. That baptism is the initiatory ordinance which introduces us into the visible church; of course, where there is no baptism, there are no visible churches. 2. That we ought not to commune with those who are not baptized, and of course not church-members, even if we regard them as Christians." _Letter on Baptism, 1829, cited by Curtis on Com., p. 125._ DOCTOR HIBBARD, a leading Methodist scholar and Divine, says: "In one principle Baptist and Pedobaptist churches agree. They both agree in rejecting from communion at the table of the Lord, and in denying the rights of church fellowship to all who have not been baptized." And with admirable frankness, he adds: "The charge of _close communion_ is no more applicable to the Baptist than to us [Pedobaptists]; insomuch as the question of church fellowship with them is determined by as liberal principles as it is with any other Protestant churches, so far, I mean, as the present subject is concerned--i.e., _it is determined by valid baptism._" _Hibbard on Christ. Bap., P. II., p. 174._ DOCTOR BULLOCK, another Methodist Divine, says: "Close communion, as it is generally termed, is the only logical and consistent course for Baptist churches to pursue. If their premises are right, their conclusion is surely just as it should be." And he commends the firmness of Baptists in not inviting to the communion those whom they regard as unbaptized. He says: "They do not feel willing to countenance such laxity in Christian discipline. Let us honor them for their steadfastness in maintaining what they believe to be a Bible precept, rather than criticize and censure because they differ with us concerning the intent and mode of Christian baptism, and believe it to be an irrepealable condition of coming to the Lord's Table." _What Christians Believe._