A30138:126
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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Answ. This putteth our Opposers out of their road, and quencheth the flame of their unwarrantable zeal. For if the entering-Ordinance, if the Ordinance without which no man might be added to the Church, was ⟨p. 38⟩laid aside for forty years; yea, if more than six hundred thousand did Communicate with them without it: I say again, If they did it, and held Communion with God, that notwithstanding; yea, and had not (that we read of) all that time, one small check for so doing; why may not we now, enter Communion, hold Communion, maintain Communion, Church-Communion, without being judged, and condemned by you? because we cannot for want of Light be all baptized before; especially considering Baptism makes no man a Saint, is not the entering-Ordinance, is no part of the Worship of God enjoined the Church as a Church. To conclude, Although we receive Members unbaptized, we leave not God's Instituted Worship at uncertainties, especially what he hath commanded us as his Church; we only profess our want of Light in some things; but see no Word to warrant the forbearance of our Duty in all, for want of persuasion in one.
Answ. This putteth our Opposers out of their road, and quencheth the flame of their unwarrantable zeal. For if the entering-Ordinance, if the Ordinance without which no man might be added to the Church, was ⟨p. 38⟩laid aside for forty years; yea, if more than six hundred thousand did Communicate with them without it: I say again, If they did it, and held Communion with God, that notwithstanding; yea, and had not (that we read of) all that time, one small check for so doing; why may not we now, enter Communion, hold Communion, maintain Communion, Church-Communion, without being judged, and condemned by you? because we cannot for want of Light be all baptized before; especially considering Baptism makes no man a Saint, is not the entering-Ordinance, is no part of the Worship of God injoyned the Church as a Church. To conclude, Although we receive Members unbaptized, we leave not God's Instituted Worship at uncertainties, especially what he hath commanded us as his Church; we only profess our want of Light in some things; but see no Word to warrant the forbearance of our Duty in all, for want of perswasion in one.