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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.
You tell me of the Order of the Colossians, Chap. 2. 5. but if you can prove that that Church refused to hold Communion with that Saint whom they knew to be received by Christ, and held Communion with him, or that none but those that are baptized are received by, and hold Communion with him, then you justify your Order. In the mean while the whole of mine Argument stands firm against you; You must have Communion with visible Saints, because God hath Communion with them, whose Example in the Case we are strictly Commanded to follow.
You tell me of the Order of the Colossians, Chap. 2. 5. but if you can prove that that Church refused to hold Communion with that Saint whom they knew to be received by Christ, and held Communion with him, or that none but those that are baptized are received by, and hold Communion with him, then you justifie your Order. In the mean while the whole of mine Argument stands firm against you; You must have Communion with visible Saints, because God hath Communion with them, whose Example in the Case we are strictly Commanded to follow.
But you ask me, If outward and bodily Conformity be become a crime? pag. 23.
Answ. I no where said it: But know that to glorify God with our bodies, respecteth chiefly far higher and more weighty things than that of Water-baptism, Whatsoever is 1not of Faith is sin; and to set up an Ordinance, though an Ordinance of God, that by it the Churches may be pulled in pieces, or the truly visible Saints excluded Communion with their Brethren; I say again, To make Water-baptism a bar and division betwixt Saint and Saint, every-whit otherwise gracious and holy alike: This is like fasting for strife, and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; and is not to be found within