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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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You say to this, pag. 20. That it is Paul's direction to the Church at Rome how to receive their Brethren Church-Members, pag. 20.
I answer.
1. What? are not the poor Saints now in this City? are not they concerned in these instructions? or is not the Church by these words at all directed how to carry it to those that were not yet in fellowship? A bold Assertion! but grounded upon nothing, but that you would have it so.
2. But how will you prove that there was a Church, a rightly constituted Church at Rome, besides that in Aquila's house? Chap. 16. Neither doth this Epistle, nor any other in the whole Book of God affirm it. Besides, since Paul in this last Chapter saluteth the Church, as in this Mans house, but the other only as particular Saints, it giveth farther ground of Conviction to you, that ⟨p. 43⟩those others were not as yet embodied in such a fellowship.
2. But how will you prove that there was a Church, a rightly constituted Church at Rome, besides that in Aquila's house? Chap. 16. Neither doth this Epistle, nor any other in the whole Book of God affirm it. Besides, since Paul in this last Chapter saluteth the Church, as in this Mans house, but the other only as particular Saints, it giveth farther ground of Conviction to you, that