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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.
I know your Reply, New-Testament Saints were all baptized first.
Answ Suppose it granted; Were they baptized, that thereby they might be qualified for their right to communion of Saints, so that without their submitting to Water, they were to be denied the other? Further, Suppose I should grant this groundless Notion, Were not the Jews in Old Testament times to enter the Church by Circumcision? For that,1 though Water is not, was the very entering-Ordinance.2 Besides, as I said before, there was a full forbidding all that were not circumcised from entering into fellowship, with a threatening to cut them off from the Church if they entered in without it: Yet more than six hundred thousand entered that Church without it. But how now, if such an one as you had then stood up and objected, Sir ⟨p. 67⟩Moses, What is the reason that you transgress the Order of God, to receive Members without Circumcision? Is not that the very entering-Ordinance? Are not you commanded to keep out of the Church all that are not circumcised? Yea, and for all those that you thus received, are you not commanded to cast them out again, to cut them off from among this people? (Gen. 17. 13, 14. Exod. 12. 24, 25, 26.)
Answ Suppose it granted; Were they baptized, that thereby they might be qualified for their right to communion of Saints, so that without their submitting to Water, they were to be denyed the other? Further, Suppose I should grant this groundless Notion, Were not the Jews in Old Testament times to enter the Church by Circumcision? For that,1