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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.
As for my Confession of Faith, which you also secretly despise, pag. 1. If it be good, and godly, why may it not be accepted? If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me? If you, and the Brethren of your way, did think it convenient to show to the World what you held; if perhaps by that means you might escape the Prison: why might not I, after above 11 years endurance there, give the World a view of my Faith and Practice; if peradventure, wrong Thoughts, and false Judgments of me, might by that means be abated, and removed.
As for my Confession of Faith, which you also secretly despise, pag. 1. If it be good, and godly, why may it not be accepted? If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me? If you, and the Brethren of your way, did think it convenient to shew to the World what you held; if perhaps by that means you might escape the Prison: why might not I, after above 11 years indurance there, give the World a view of my Faith and Practice; if peradventure, wrong Thoughts, and false Judgments of me, might by that means be abated, and removed.
But you suggest; I did it, because I was so willing to be known in the World by my SINGULAR Faith, and Practice.
How singular my Faith and Practice is, may be better known to you hereafter: but that I did it for a popular applause and fame, as your words seem to bear (for they proceed from a taunting Spirit) that will be known ⟨p. 8⟩to you better in the day of God, when your evil surmises of your Brother, and my designs in writing my Book, will be published1 upon the house-tops.