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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.
I told you also, That Baptism makes thee no Member of the Church, neither doth it make thee a visible Saint; It giveth thee, therefore, neither right to, nor being of Membership at all. Why, Sir, did you not Answer these things? but slip them with others, as if you were unconcerned; troubling your Reader with such kind of insinuations, as must needs be unsavoury to godly ears.
You make the Moral Law none of Christs, but Moses's; not the Sons, but the Servants: and tell me, because I plead for Faith, and Holiness, according to Moral Duties Gospelized (they are my words, pag. 79.) whereby we ought to judge of the fitness of Members; that therefore Moses is more beholding to me than Christ. pag. 6.
You make the Moral Law none of Christs, but Moses's; not the Sons, but the Servants: and tell me, because I plead for Faith, and Holiness, according to Moral Duties Gospellized (they are my words, pag. 79.) whereby we ought to judge of the fitness of Members; that therefore Moses is more beholding to me than Christ. pag. 6.
Sir, Know you not yet, that a difference is to be put betwixt those Rules that discover the Essentials of Holiness, and those that in themselves are not such; and that that of Faith and the Moral Law is the one, and Baptism, &c. the other?