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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 thirteenth Argument is, If Obedience must discover the truth of a man's Faith to others, why must Baptism be shut out? as if it was no part of Gospel-Obedience. Is there no Precept for this Practice, that it must be thus despised? as a matter of little use, or shall one of Christ's precious Commands be blotted out of a Christians Obedience, to make way for a Church-fellowship of man's devising?
Your thirteenth Argument is, If Obedience must discover the truth of a man's Faith to others, why must Baptism be shut out? as if it was no part of Gospel-Obediance. Is there no Precept for this Practice, that it must be thus despised? as a matter of little use, or shall one of Christ's precious Commands be blotted out of a Christians Obedience, to make way for a Church-fellowship of man's devising?
Answ. 1. This is but round, round, the same thing, over and over: That my obedience to Water, is not a discovery of my Faith to others, is evident, from the body of the Bible, we find nothing that affirms it.
And I will now add, That if a man cannot show himself a Christian without Water baptism, He shall never show either Saint, or Sinner, that he is a Christian by it.
And I will now add, That if a man cannot shew himself a Christian without Waterbaptism, He shall never shew either Saint, or Sinner, that he is a Christian by it.