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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.
Yea, shall I tell you; That Baptism will neither admit a man into Fellowship, nor keep him there, if he be a transgressor of a Moral Precept; and that a man who believeth in Jesus, and fulfilleth the Royal Law, doth more glorify God, and honour Religion in the World, than he that keepeth (if there were so many) ten thousand figurative Laws.
Yea, shall I tell you; That Baptism will neither admit a man into Fellowship, nor keep him there, if he be a transgressor of a Moral Precept; and that a man who believeth in Jesus, and fulfilleth the Royal Law, doth more glorifie God, and honour Religion in the World, than he that keepeth (if there were so many) ten thousand figurative Laws.
As to those Commands that respect God's Instituted Worship in a Church, as a Church, I have told you that Baptism is none of them, and you have been driven to confess it: The1 Church then must first look to Faith, then to good Living according to the Ten Commandments; after that she must respect those Appointments of our Lord Jesus, that respects ⟨p. 16⟩her outward order and discipline, and then she walks as becomes her, sinning if she neglecteth either; sinning if she over-valueth either.
- 1Pag. 40. of your Book.
But why did you not Answer those Texts I produced for the strengthening of my Argument, viz. Rom. 14. 18. Deut. 23. 47.