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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 twelfth Argument is, Why should Professors have more Light in breaking of Bread, than Baptism? That this must be so urged for their excuse: Hath God been more sparing in making out his mind in the one, rather than the other? Is there more Precepts or Precedents for the Supper, than Baptism? Hath God been so bountiful in making out himself about the Supper, that few or none, that own Ordinances, scruple it: And must Baptism be such a rock of offence, to Professors? That very few will inquire after it, or submit to it? Hath not man's wisdom interposed to darken this part of God's Counsel? By which Professors seem widingly led, though against so many plain Commands and Examples, written as with a Sun-beam, that he that runs may read? And must an Advocate be entertained to plead for so gross a piece of ignorance, that the meanest babes of the first Gospel-times were never guilty of?
Answ. Many words to little purpose:
1. Must God be called to an account by you, why he giveth more Light about the Supper, than Baptism? May he not show to, or conceal from this, or another of his ⟨p. 89⟩Servants, which of his Truths he pleaseth? Some of the Members of the Church of Jerusalem had a greater Truth than this kept from them, for ought I know, as long as they lived, (Acts 11. 19