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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.
What if I did? (as I did not but you grant it; And now I will ask you, •nd pray deal fairly in your Answer, May man be a visible Saint without light therein; May he have a good Conscience without light therein? And seeing that Baptism is none of the worship that Christ Instituted in his Church for them to practise as a Church, must he be kept dark about all other things concerning the Worship of God in his Church, until he receive light therein?
You have answered already, pag. 7. That they ought to be ashamed, and to repent of that abomination (their sprinkling) BEFORE they come to have a sight of the pattern of the House of God, the goings in and the comings •n thereof, Ezek. 43. 10, 11.
But, Sir, where do you find that want of Light in Water-Baptism, or because a man hath been Sprinkled, that he is to be kept dark in all other Temple-Institutions, till he be ashamed and repent of that? Pray produce the Texts, for Ezekiel helps you nothing: He speaks only of the Pattern of the HOUSE, the goings out, and comings in thereof. As for the coming IN, you have already confessed, That Baptism is not the entering. Ordinance. And as for the Worship that Christ hath Instituted in his Church, as a Church, I say (and you also have said it page 40) Baptism is none of the Forms thereof, none of the Ordinances thereof, none of the Laws thereof: for Baptism is, as to the Practice of it, that which is without the Church, without the House of God: Then by your own Text, if a man do repent him of his Christening in his Childhood, he may be received into Fellowship without submitting to Baptism: but I will not strain you too far.
But, Sir, where do you find that want of Light in Water-Baptism, or because a man hath been Sprinkled, that he is to be kept dark in all other Temple-Institutions, till he be ashamed and repent of that? Pray produce the Texts, for Ezekiel helps you nothing: He speaks only of the Pattern of the HOUSE, the goings out, and comings in thereof. As for the coming IN, you have already confessed, That Baptism is not the entring. Ordinance. And as for the Worship that Christ hath Instituted in his Church, as a Church, I say (and you also have said it page 40) Baptism is none of the Forms thereof, none of the Ordinances thereof, none of the Laws thereof: for Baptism is, as to the Practice of it, that which is without the Church, without the House of God: Then by your own Text, if a man do repent him of his Christening in his Childhood, he may be received into Fellowship without submitting to Baptism: but I will not strain you too far.