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Differences in judgment about water-baptism, no bar to communion, or, To communicate with saints,…Differences in judgment about vvater-baptism, no bar to communion, or, To communicate with saints,…
Differences in judgment about water-baptism, no bar to communion, or, To communicate with saints, as saints, proved lawful in answer to a book written by the Baptists, and published by Mr. T.P. and Mr. W.K. entitled, Some serious reflections on that part of Mr. Bunyan's confession of faith, touching church-communion with unbaptized believers : wherein, their objections and arguments are answered, and the doctrine of communion still asserted and vindicated : here is also Mr. Henry's Jesse's judgment in the case, fully declaring the doctrine I have asserted / by John Bunyan.Differences in judgment about vvater-baptism, no bar to communion, or, To communicate with saints, as saints, proved lawful in answer to a book written by the Baptists, and published by Mr. T.P. and Mr. W.K. entituled, Some serious reflections on that part of Mr. Bunyan's confession of faith, touching church-communion with unbaptized believers : wherein, their objections and arguments are answered, and the doctrine of communion still asserted and vindicated : here is also Mr. Henry's Jesse's judgment in the case, fully declaring the doctrine I have asserted / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for John Wilkins, 1673
Differences in Judgment about Water-Baptism no Bar to Communion.
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2. Further, That other Text, that treateth of our being baptized into a body, saith expressly it is done by the Spirit; For by one 1Spirit we are all baptized into one body, 1 Cor. 12. 16. Here is the Church presented as under the notion of a Body; here is a Baptism mentioned, by which they are brought, or initiated into this Body: Now that this is the Baptism of Water, is utterly against the words of the Text; For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body: besides, if the Baptism here be of Water, then is it the initiating Ordinance; but the contrary I have ⟨p. 29⟩proved, and this Author stands by my Doctrine. So then, the Baptism here, respecting the Church as a Body, and Water having nothing to do to enter men into the Church, nor to command them to practise it as a Church, in order to their Peace, or Communion, or respecting the Worship of God as such: And (I say again) the Baptism in the sixth Argument, being urged precisely for no other purpose, but with respect to the Churches peace as a Body; it must needs be THAT Baptism, by virtue of which, they were initiated, and joined together in one: and that Baptism being only that which the Spirit executeth; this therefore is that one Baptism.
2. Further, That other Text, that treateth of our being baptized into a body, saith expresly it is done by the Spirit; For by one 1Spirit we are all baptized into one body, 1 Cor. 12. 16. Here is the Church presented as under the notion of a Body; here is a Baptism mentioned, by which they are brought, or initiated into this Body: Now that this is the Baptism of Water, is utterly against the words of the Text; For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body: besides, if the Baptism here be of Water, then is it the initiating Ordinance; but the contrary I have ⟨p. 29⟩proved, and this Author stands by my Doctrine. So then, the Baptism here, respecting the Church as a Body, and Water having nothing to do to enter men into the Church, nor to command them to practise it as a Church, in order to their Peace, or Communion, or respecting the Worship of God as such: And (I say again) the Baptism in the sixth Argument, being urged precisely for no other purpose, but with respect to the Churches peace as a Body; it must needs be THAT Baptism, by virtue of which, they were initiated, and joyned together in one: and that Baptism being only that which the Spirit executeth; this therefore is that one Baptism.