A30138:286
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.
Answ. For a reply to the first part of this Argument, go back to the Answer to the seventh.
Now that none have put on Christ in Paul's sense; yea, in a saving, in the best sense but them that have, as you would have them, gone into Water, will be hard for you to prove, yea, is ungodly for you to assert.
Your comparing Water-baptism to a Gentleman's ⟨p. 84⟩Livery, by which his Name is known to be his, is fantastical.
Your comparing Water-baptism to a Gentlemans ⟨p. 84⟩Livery, by which his Name is known to be his, is fantastical.
Go you but ten doors from where men have knowledge of you, and see how many of the World, or Christians, will know you by this goodly Livery, to be one that hath put on Christ. What I known by Water-baptism to be one that hath put on Christ, as a Gentleman's man is known to be his Masters Servant, by the gay Garment his Master gave him. Away fond man, you do quite forget the Text. By THIS shall all men know that you are my Disciples, if you have love one to another,