A30138:366
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.
I shall endeavour the answering of some Objections, and leave it unto Consideration.
Obj. Some say this bearing, or receiving, were but in things indifferent.
Answ. That eating, or forbearing upon a civil account, are things indifferent, is true: But not when, done upon the account of Worship, as keeping of Days, and establishing Jewish observations about Meats, which by the Death of Christ are taken away, and it is not fairly to be imagined the same Church at Rome looked so upon them as indifferent; nor that the Lord doth; That it were all alike to him to hold up Jewish Observations, or to keep Days or no Days, right Days or wrong Days, as indifferent things, which is a great mistake, and no less than to make God's Grace little in receiving such: For if it were but in things wherein they had not sinned, it were no great matter for the Lord to receive, and it would have been as good an Argument or Motive to the Church, to say the things were indifferent, as to say the Lord had received them.
Answ. That eating, or forbearing upon a civil account, are things indifferent, is true: But not when, done upon the account of Worship, as keeping of Dayes, and establishing Jewish observations about Meats, which by the Death of Christ are taken away, and it is not fairly to be imagined the same Church at Rome look'd so upon them as indifferent; nor that the Lord doth; That it were all alike to him to hold up Jewish Observations, or to keep Days or no Days, right Days or wrong Days, as indifferent things, which is a great mistake, and no less than to make God's Grace little in receiving such: For if it were but in things wherein they had not sinned, it were no great matter for the Lord to receive, and it would have been as good an Argument or Motive to the Church, to say the things were indifferent, as to say the Lord had received them.