A30138:290
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 ninth Argument is, If it were commendable in the Thessalonians, that they followed the foot-steps of the Church of Judea, 1 Thes. 2. 24. who it appears followed this order of adding Baptized-Believers unto the Church; Then they that have found out another way of making Church-Members, are not by that Rule praise-worthy, but rather to be blamed; it was not what was since in corrupted times, but that which was from the beginning: the first Churches were the purest Pattern.
Your ninth Argument is, If it were commendable in the Thessalonians, that they followed the foot-steps of the Church of Judea, 1 Thes. 2. 24. who it appears followed this order of adding Baptized-Believers unto the Church; Then they that have found out another way of making Church-Members, are not by that Rule praise-worthy, but rather to be blamed; it was not what was since in corrupted times, but that which was from the beginning: the first Churches were the purest Patern.
Answ. That the Text saith there was a Church OF Judea, I find not, (1 Thess. 2. 14.) And that the Thessalonians are commended for refusing to have communion with the unbaptized Believers, (for that is our question) prove it by the word, and then you do something. Again, that the commendations (1 Thess. 2. 14.) do chiefly, or at all, respect their being Baptized: Or, because they followed the Churches of God, which in Judea were in Christ Jesus, in the Example of Water-Baptism is quite beside the word. The Verse runs thus, for the Brethren, became followers of the Churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus, for ye also have suffered like things of your own Country-men, even as they have of the Jews, &c. This Text then commends them, not for that they were baptized with Water, but, for that they stood their ground, although baptized with suffering, like them in Judea, for the Name of