A30138:302
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. 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.) yet God was not called in question about it.
1. Must God be called to an account by you, why he giveth more Light about the Supper, than Baptism? May he not shew 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.) yet God was not called in question about it.
2. Breaking of Bread, not Baptism, being a Church-Ordinance, and that such also, as must be often reiterated; yea, it being an Ordinance SO full of blessedness, as lively to present Union and Communion with Christ to all the Members that worthily eat thereof; I say, The Lord's-Supper being such, that while the Members sit at that feast, they show to each other the Death and Blood of the Lord; as they ought to do, till he comes, (1 Cor. 10. 15, 16, 17