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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, Under the Law, all the Sacrifices of that Dispensation, with their Sabbaths, were Types of that Christ, who was the substance of all those Ceremonies. If any of them then that professed Faith in the Messiah ⟨p. 35⟩to come, should upon scruples, or want of pretended Light, neglect the whole, or part of that Typical Worship; why may not a man say of them, as this Advocate of the Practice under Debate, they had the richer and better Sacrifice.
But you add, Under the Law, all the Sacrifices of that Dispensation, with their Sabbaths, were Types of that Christ, who was the substance of all those Ceremonies. If any of them then that professed Faith in the Messias ⟨p. 35⟩to come, should upon scruples, or want of pretended Light, neglect the whole, or part of that Typical Worship; why may not a man say of them, as this Advocate of the Practice under Debate, they had the richer aud better Sacrifice.
Answ. First, That the Brethren which refuse to be baptized, as you and I would have them, refuse it for want of pretended Light, becomes you not to imagine, unless your boldness will lead you to judge, that all men want sincerity, that come not up to our judgment. Their Conscience may be better than either yours or mine; yet God, for purposes best known to himself, may forbear to give them conviction of their Duty in this particular. But what? Because they are not baptized; have they not Jesus Christ? Or, must we now be afraid to say Christ is better than Water-baptism? Yea, God himself for the sake of this better thing, hath suffered in his Church a suspension of some of his Ordinances, yet owned them for his truly Constituted Congregation. What say you to the Church in the Wilderness? I touched you with it in my first, but perceive you listed not to meddle therewith. That Church received Members, the way which was not prescribed by, but directly against the revealed Mind of God; yet stood a true Church, their Members true Members; also that Church in that state, was such before whom, among whom, and to whom God continually made known himself