A30138:351
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.
Secondly, By whom, and to what, he that is weak in the Faith, is to be received?
To the First, What weakness of Faith this is that must not hinder receiving, whether ⟨p. 102⟩was it weakness in the Graces of Faith, or in the Doctrine of Faith? It's conceived the First is included, but the Second principally intended.
First, That some of the Lord's People are1 weak in the Graces of Faith, will be confessed2 by all, and that the Lord would have his Lambs fed as well as his Sheep, and his Children as well as grown Men, and that he hath given the right to Gospel-privileges, not to degrees of Grace, but to the Truth; Him that is weak in the Faith, receive you: or UNTO you, as some GOOD Translations read it. Rom. 14. 1.
First, That some of the Lord's People are1 weak in the Graces of Faith, will be confessed2 by all, and that the Lord would have his Lambs fed as well as his Sheep, and his Children as well as grown Men, and that he hath given the right to Gospel-priviledges, not to degrees of Grace, but to the Truth; Him that is weak in the Faith, receive you: or UNTO you, as some GOOD Translations read it.