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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But you add, If nothing but extraordinary Gifts are called the baptism of the Spirit in a strict sense; then that baptism, 1 Cor. 12. must be Water-baptism, as well as that in the Ephesians.
Hold: You make your Conclusions before you have cause; First prove that in the Ephesians to be meant of Water-baptism, and that the Baptism in 1 Cor. 12. 16. is the Baptism you would have it; and then conclude my Argument void.
That it is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost according to the common notion, I say not; for you to assert it is the Baptism of Water, gives the lye to the Text: But that it is an act of the Holy Ghost, baptizing the Saints into a Body, or Church, you will hardly be able to make the contrary appear to be truth.
But behold, while here you would have this to be Baptism with Water, how you contradict and condemn your own Notion: You say Water-baptism is not the entering Ordinance; yet the Baptism here is such as baptizeth us into a Body: Wherefore before you say next time that this in