A30138:381
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. If there were no Reason to be shown, it should teach us silence, for he doth nothing without the highest Reason; and there doth appear some Reasons, in the Old Testament, why those Ordinances of Urim and Thummim, &c. were suffered to be lost in the Captivity, that they might long, and look for the Lord Jesus, the Priest, that was to stand up with Urim and Thummim, Ezra. 2. 63. Neh. 7. 65. which the Lord by this puts them upon the hoping for, and to be in the expectation of so great a mercy, which was the promise of the Old Testament, and all the Churches losses in the New Testament: By all the dark night of ignorance she hath been in, and long captivity she hath been under, and in her wandering wilderness-state, wherein she hath rather been fed with Manna from Heaven, than by men upon Earth; and after all her crosses and losses, the Lord lets Light break in by degrees, and deliverance by little and little; and she is coming out of the Wilderness leaning upon her Beloved; and the Lord hath given the Valley of Achor for a Door of Hope, that ere long she may receive the Promise of the Gospel richly, by the Spirit to be poured upon us from on High, Isa. 32. 15. and the Wilderness be a fruitful Field, and the fruitful Field become a Forrest, ⟨p. 119⟩and then the Lord will take away the covering cast over all people, Isa. 25. 7. and the Veil that is spread over all Nations; Isa. 11. 9. For the Earth shall be filled with the Knowledge of the Lord, as the Waters cover the Sea. vers. 13. Then Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. Thus will the God of Peace bruise Satan under-foot shortly; and one Reason why the Lord may suffer all this Darkness and Differences that have been, and yet are, is, that we might long and look for this blessed Promise of the Gospel, the pourings out of the Spirit.