A30138:364
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.
From the Example, (to wit) That God had received them; whereas, had he been of the ⟨p. 105⟩Church, they would have been persuaded of that before the Motive was urged: For no true Church of Christ's would take in, or keep in any, whom they judged the Lord had not received, but those weak ones were such as they questioned whether the Lord had received them, else the Text had not been an answer sufficient for their receiving them: There might have been objected, They hold up Jewish observations of Meats, and Days, which by the Death of Christ were abolished, and so did deny some of the Effects of his Death; yet the Lord who was principally wronged could pass this by, and commandeth others ro receive them also. And if it be a good Argument to receive such as are weak in any thing, whom the Lord hath received, Then there can be no good Argument to reject for any thing for which the Lord will not reject them; For else the Command in the first verse, and his Example in the third verse were insufficient, without some other Arguments unto the Church, beside his Command and Example.
From the Example, (to wit) That God had received them; whereas, had he been of the ⟨p. 105⟩Church, they would have been perswaded of that before the Motive was urged: For no true Church of Christ's would take in, or keep in any, whom they judged the Lord had not received, but those weak ones were such as they questioned whether the Lord had received them, else the Text had not been an answer sufficient for their receiving them: There might have been objected, They hold up Jewish observations of Meats, and Dayes, which by the Death of Christ were abolished, and so did deny some of the Effects of his Death; yet the Lord who was principally wronged could pass this by, and commandeth others ro receive them also. And if it be a good Argument to receive such as are weak in any thing, whom the Lord hath received, Then there can be no good Argument to reject for any thing for which the Lord will not reject them; For else the Command in the first verse, and his Example in the third verse were insufficient, without some other Arguments unto the Church, beside his Command and Example.