A30138:256
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.
And let no man be offended, for that I suggest that Baptism may be abused to the breeding such monstrous Absurdities, for greater Truths than that have been as much abused. What say you to, This is my Body? To instance no more, although I could instance ⟨p. 71⟩many, are not they the words of our Lord? are not they part of the Scriptures of Truth? and yet behold, even with those words, the Devil by abusing them, made an Engine to let out the heart-blood of thousands. Baptism also may be abused, and is, when more is laid upon it by us, than is Commanded by God. And that you do so, is manifest by what I have said already, and shall yet say to your Fourteen Arguments.
My last Argument, you say is this;
The World may wonder at your carriage to those Unbaptized Persons, in keeping them out of Communion?
Ans. You will yet set up your own words, and then fight against them: but my words are these, What greater contempt can be thrown upon the Saints, than for their Brethren to cut them off from, or to debar them Church-Communion!