A30138:264
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
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.
Your first Argument to prove it lawful to reject the Unbaptized Saint, is, Because the great Commission of Christ, Matth. 28. from which all Persons have their Authority for their Ministry, (if any Authority at all) doth clearly direct the contrary. By that Commission, Ministers are first to Disciple, and then to Baptize them so made Disciples, and afterward to teach them to observe all that Christ Commanded them, as to other Ordinances of Worship. If Ministers have no other Authority to teach them other parts of Gospel-Worship, before they believe and are baptized; it may be strongly supposed, they are not to admit them to other Ordinances before they have passed this first enjoined in the Commission.
YOur first Argument to prove it lawful to reject the Unbaptized Saint, is, Because the great Commission of Christ, Matth. 28. from which all Persons have their Authority for their Ministry, (if any Authority at all) doth clearly direct the contrary. By that Commission, Ministers are first to Disciple, and then to Baptize them so made Disciples, and afterward to teach them to observe all that Christ Commanded them, as to other Ordinances of Worship. If Ministers have no other Authority to teach them other parts of Gospel-Worship, before they believe and are baptized; it may be strongly supposed, they are not to admit them to other Ordinances before they have passed this first injoyned in the Commission.
Answ. 1. That the Ministers are to Disciple and Baptize, is granted. But that they are prohibited (by the Commission, Matth. 28.) to Teach the Disciples other parts of Gospel-Worship, that have not Light in Baptism, remains for you to prove. Shall I add, This Position is so absurd and void of truth, that none that have ever read the Love of Christ, ⟨p. 74⟩the Nature of Faith, the End of the Gospel, or of the Reason of Instituted Worship (which is Edification) with understanding, should so much as once imagine.