A30138:353
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.
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. Rom. 14. 1.
Secondly, It's supposed, this Command of receiving him that is weak in the Faith, doth principally intend, that is weak in the Doctrine of Faith, and that not so much in the Doctrine of Justification, as in Gospel-Institutions, as doth appear by the second and sixth verses, which shows, that it was in matters of Practice, wherein some were weak, and at which others were offended; notwithstanding the Glorious Lord who bears all his Israel upon his heart receives, vers. 3. and commandeth, him that is weak in the Faith receive you, or unto you.