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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.
2. The Baptism of John was the Baptism of Repentance, for the Remission of Sins, of1 which Water was but an outward signification, Mark 1. 4. Now, what is the Baptism2 of Repentance, but an unfeigned acknowledgement that they were Sinners, and so stood in3 need of a Saviour, Jesus Christ: This Baptism, or Baptism under this Notion, the Pharisees ⟨p. 92⟩4would not receive, For they trusted to themselves 5that they were righteous, that they were not as other men, that they had need of NO repentance: Not, but that they would have6 been baptized with Water, might that have been without an acknowledgement that they were Sinners: wherefore seeing the Counsel7 of God respected, rather the Remission of sins by Jesus Christ, than the outward act of8 Water-baptism, ye ought not, as you do, by this your Reasoning, to make it rather, at least in the revelation of it, to terminate in the outward act of being baptized, but in unfeigned and sound Repentance, and the receiving of Jesus Christ by Faith.
2. The Baptism of John was the Baptism of Repentance, for the Remission of Sins, of1 which Water was but an outward signification, Mark 1. 4. Now, what is the Baptism2