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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
Differences in Judgment about Water-Baptism no Bar to Communion.
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.
Where you are pleased to charge me with Raging, for laying those Eighteen particular Crimes to the charge of SUCH who exclude Christians from Church-Communion, and debar them their Heaven-born Privileges, for the want of that, which yet God never made, the Wall of Division between us. (pag. 116.)
Where you are pleased to charge me with Raging, for laying those Eighteen particular Crimes to the charge of SUCH who exclude Christians from Church-Communion, and debar them their Heaven-born Priviledges, for the want of that, which yet God never made, the Wall of Division between us. (pag. 116.)
I say, when you can prove, That God hath made Water-Baptism that Wall, and that the stress of the after Eighteen Charges lye wholly and only in that; then you may time enough call my language such as wanteth Charity: but I question though that was granted, whether your saying, I RAGE, will be justified in the day of Judgment.
My great noise (as you call it) about an initiating Ordinance, you say, you shall take no notice of. pag. 3.
Answ. 1. Although you do not, I must: For if Baptism be not that, but another; and if visible Saints may enter into Fellowship by that other, and are no where forbidden so to do, because they have not light into Water-Baptism: it is of weight to be considered by me; yea, and of others too who are unprejudiced.