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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
Differences in Judgment about Water-Baptism no Bar to Communion.
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.
2. How ignorant you are of such as hold it the initiating Ordinance I know not: nor how long you have been of that persuasion I know not. This I know, that men of your own Party, as serious, godly, and it may be more learned than your self, have within less than this twelve-month urged it. Mr. D. in my hearing, did from Rom. 6. 1, 2. in the Meeting in Lothbury affirm it: Also my much esteemed Friend Mr. D. A. did twice in a Conference with me Assert it.
2. How ignorant you are of such as hold it the initiating Ordinance I know not: nor how long you have been of that perswasion I know not. This I know, that men of your own Party, as serious, godly, and it may be more learned than your self, have within less than this twelve-month urged it. Mr. D. in my hearing, did from Rom. 6. 1, 2. in the Meeting in Lothbury affirm it: Also my much esteemed Friend Mr. D. A. did twice in a Conference with me Assert it.
3. But whatever you say, whether for, or against, ''tis no matter; for while you deny it to be the entering Ordinance, you account it the Wall, Bar, Bolt, and Door; even that ⟨p. 11⟩which must separate between the righteous and the righteous; nay, you make want of Light therein, a ground to exclude the most Godly your Communion, when every Novice in Religion shall be received into your bosom, and be of esteem with you because he hath (and from what ground God knows) submitted to Water-Baptism.
3. But whatever you say, whether for, or against, 'tls no matter; for while you deny it to be the entering Ordinance, you account it the Wall, Bar, Bolt, and Door; even that ⟨p. 11⟩which must separate between the righteous and the righteous; nay, you make want of Light therein, a ground to exclude the most Godly your Communion, when every Novice in Religion shall be received into your bosom, and be of esteem with you because he hath (and from what ground God knows) submitted to Water-Baptism.