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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
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.
Answ. That the Baptism intended in the Text, is the Spirits-baptism, and not Water baptism; ⟨p. 110⟩and that the Body the Text intends, is not principally the Church of Corinth, but all Believers, both Jews and Gentiles, being baptized into one Mystical Body, as Ephes. 4. 4. There is one Body, and one Spirit, wherein there is set out the Uniter and the United; therefore in the third verse they are exhorted to keep the unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace. The United are all the Faithful, in one Body; into whom? in the fifth verse, in one Lord Jesus Christ; by what? one Faith, one Baptism, which CANNOT be meant of1 Water-baptism; for Water-baptism doth not unite all this Body, for some of them never had Water-baptism, and are yet of this Body, and by the Spirit gathered into one Lord Jesus Christ, Ephes. 1. 10. both which are in Heaven and in Earth, Jew and Gentile, Ephes. 2. 16. that he might reconcile both unto God in one Body by his Cross; the Instrument you have in vers. 18. by one Spirit, Ephes. 3. 6. That the Gentiles should be Fellow-Heirs of the same Body, vers. 15. of whom the whole family in Heaven and Earth is named. And the Reasons of their keeping the Unity of the Spirit, in Eph. 4. 3. is said down in v. 4, 5. being one Body, one Spirit, having one Hope, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, whether they were Jews or Gentiles, such as were in Heaven or in Earth, which CANNOT be meant of Water-baptism, for2 in that sense, they had not all one Baptism, nor admitted and united thereby: So in 1 Cor. 12. 13. For by one Spirit we are all ⟨p. 111⟩