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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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Answ. Have I such an Argument in all my little Book? Are not my words verbatim these? If we shall reject visible Saints by calling, Saints that have communion with God; that have received the Law at the hand of Christ; that are of an holy conversation among men, they desiring to have communion with us; as much as in us lieth, we take from them their very privileges, and the blessings to which they were born of God.
Answ. Have I such an Argument in all my little Book? Are not my words verbatim these? If we shall reject visible Saints by calling, Saints that have communion with God; that have received the Law at the hand of Christ; that are of an holy conversation among men, they desiring to have communion with us; as much as in us lyeth, we take from them their very priviledges, and the blessings to which they were born of God.
This is mine Argument: now confute it.
Paul saith, (1 Cor. 1. 1, 2. & 3. 22.) not only to the Gathered Church at Corinth, but to all scattered Saints, that in every place call upon the Name of the Lord, that Jesus Christ is theirs; that Paul, and Apollo, and Cephas▪ and the World, and all things else was theirs.