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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.
Answ. I can say, I would not have the Spirit you talk of, what I have of it, God take it from me. But what was the Spirit of Diotrephes? Why, not to receive the Brethren into the Church, and to forbid them that would, (3 John 9, 10.) This do not I; I am for Communion with Saints, because they are Saints▪ I shut none of the Brethren out of the Churches, nor forbid them that would receive them. I say again, show me the man that is a visible Believer, and that walketh with God; and though he differ with me about Baptism, the Doors of the Church stand open for him, and all our Heaven-born Privileges he shall be admitted to them. But how came Diotrephes so lately into our parts? Where was he in those days that our Brethren of the Baptized-way, would neither receive into the Church, nor pray with men as good as themselves, because they were not baptized; but would either, like Quakers, stand with their Hats on their heads, or else withdraw till we had done.
Answ. I can say, I would not have the Spirit you talk of, what I have of it, God take it from me. But what was the Spirit of Diotrephes? Why, not to receive the Brethren into the Church, and to forbid them that would, (3 John 9, 10.) This do not I; I am for Communion with Saints, because they are Saints▪ I shut none of the Brethren out of the Churches, nor forbid them that would receive them. I say again, shew me the man that is a visible Believer, and that walketh with God; and though he differ with me about Baptism, the Doors of the Church stand open for him, and all our Heaven-born Priviledges he shall be admitted to them. But how came Diotrephes so lately into our parts? Where was he in those dayes that our Brethren of the Baptized-way, would neither receive into the Church, nor pray with men as good as themselves, because they were not baptized; but would either, like Quakers, stand with their Hats on their heads, or else withdraw till we had done.
As to our not suffering those you plead for to preach in our Assemblies, the Reason is, because we cannot yet prevail with them, to repent of their Church-renting Principles. As to the Retaliation, mind the hand of God, and remember Adonibezek,