A30138:294
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 tenth Argument is, If so be, that any of the Members at Corinth, Galatia, Coloss, Rome, or them that Peter wrote to, were not baptized, then Paul's Arguments for the Resurrection to them, or to press them to holiness from that ground (Rom. 6. Col. 2. 1 Cor. 15.) was out of doors, and altogether needless, yea, it bespeaks his ignorance, and throweth contempt upon the Spirits Wisdom, (Heb. 6. 1 Pet. 3. 12.) by which he wrote; if that must be asserted as a ground to provoke them to such an end, which had no being; and if all the Members of all those Churches were baptized, why should any plead for an exemption from Baptism for any Church-Member now?
Your tenth Argument is, If so be, that any of the Members at Corinth, Galatia, Coloss, Rome, or them that Peter wrote to, were not baptized, then Paul's Arguments for the Resurrection to them, or to press them to holiness from that ground (Rom. 6. Col. 2. 1 Cor. 15.) was out of doors, and altogether needless, yea, it bespeaks his ignorance, and throweth contempt upon the Spirits Wisdom, (Heb. 6. 1 Pet. 3. 12.) by which he wrote; if that must be asserted as a ground to provoke them to such an end, which had no beeing; and if all the Members of all those Churches were baptized, why should any plead for an exemption from Baptism for any Church-Member now?