Profession of Faith

The profession of religion, though, commonly associated with a first partaki-iig of the Lord’s Supper, is distinguishable from it. In cases where the subject comes from beyond the pale of the Church, he is baptized; and the profession of his new faith connects itself with his baptism. And we may conceive of cases, for instance on a dying bed, where the administration of the Lord’s Supper may be impossible, but where there is still an avowal of attachment to Christ. But since for the most part in Christian lands, those who become subjects of saving experience are such as have been already baptized, the first open acknowledgment of religious obligations is their approach to the Lord’s Table. Hence this is commonly spoken of as their profession of faith, or, less correctly, as joining the Church.