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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 say, I took the Doctrine of Baptism to be the Command that a Believer should be baptised, for such ends as the Gospel expresseth.
Answ. To assert that a figurative Ordinance of God, is one thing; but the Doctrinal signification of that Ordinance is another: A man may preach the Command, yet none of the Doctrine which Baptism preacheth. The Doctrine lieth not in the Command, but the mystery discovered to Faith, by the act.
Answ. To assert that a figurative Ordinance of God, is one thing; but the Doctrinal signification of that Ordinance is another: A man may preach the Command, yet none of the Doctrine which Baptism preacheth. The Doctrine lyeth not in the Command, but the mystery discovered to Faith, by the act.
You object, If the Resurrection be the Doctrine of Baptism, why doth the Apostle make that, and the Doctrine of Baptism, things distinct, in Heb. 6.
Answ. The Resurrection simply considered, is not the Doctrine of Baptism, but Christ's, and mine by him. Besides, there is more in it than the Mystery of this Resurrection; there is my death first, and then my rising with him.