A30138:295
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 eleventh Argument is, If unbaptized Persons must be received into Churches only, because they are Believers, though they deny Baptism; Then why may not others plead for the like privilege, that are negligent in any other Gospel-Ordinance of Worship, from the same ground of want of light, let it be what it will. So then as the consequence of this Principle, Churches m•• be made up of visible sinners, instead of visible Saints.
Your eleventh Argument is, If unbaptized Persons must be received into Churches onely, because they are Believers, though they deny Baptism; Then why may not others plead for the like priviledge, that are negligent in any other Gospel-Ordinance of Worship, from the same ground of want of light, let it be what it will. So then as the consequence of this Principle, Churches m•• be made up of visible sinners, instead of visible Saints.
Answ. I plead not for Believers simply because they are Believers, but for such Believers of whom we are persuaded by the Word, that God hath received them.
Answ. I plead not for Believers simply because they are Believers, but for such Believers of whom we are perswaded by the Word, that God hath received them.
2. There are some of the Ordinances that, be they neglected, the being of a Church, as to her visible Gospel-Constitution, is taken quite away; but Baptism is none of them, it being no Church-Ordinance as such, nor any part of Faith, nor of that Holiness of heart, or life, that showeth me to the Church to be indeed a visible Saint. The Saint is a Saint before, and may walk with God, and be