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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.
But what should be the reason that our Author, with others of his Opinion, should stickle so hard to prove all the Epistles were wrote to particular Churches? Why, because those Members were, as they think, every one baptized; and so the Epistles from which we fetch our Arguments for the Love and Concord of Saints, to be only proper to themselves. But if this be true, there is virtue ⟨p. 21⟩indeed, and more than ever I dreamed of, in partaking of Water-Baptism: For if that shall take away the Epistles, and consequently the whole Bible, from all that are not baptized; then are the other Churches, and also particular Saints, in a very deplorable condition. For he asketh me very devoutly, Whether any unbaptized Persons were concerned in these Epistles? pag. 9. But why would they take from us the Holy Scriptures? Verily, that we might have nought to justify our practice withal: For if the Scriptures belong only to baptized Believers, they then belong not to the rest; and in truth, if they could persuade us to yield them this grant, we should but sorrily justify our practice. But I would ask these men, If the Word of God came out from them? or if 1it came to them only? Or, whether Christ hath not given his whole Word to every one that believeth, whether they be baptized, or in, or out of Church-Fellowship? Joh. 17. Or, whether every Saint in some sort, hath not the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, which are the Scriptures and their Power?
But what should be the reason that our Author, with others of his Opinion, should stickle so hard to prove all the Epistles were wrote to particular Churches? Why, because those Members were, as they think, every one baptized; and so the Epistles from which we fetch our Arguments for the Love and Concord of Saints, to be only proper to themselves. But if this be true, there is virtue ⟨p. 21⟩indeed, and more than ever I dreamed of, in partaking of Water-Baptism: For if that shall take away the Epistles, and consequently the whole Bible, from all that are not baptized; then are the other Churches, and also particular Saints, in a very deplorable condition. For he asketh me very devoutly, Whether any unbaptized Persons were concerned in these Epistles? pag. 9. But why would they take from us the Holy Scriptures? Verily, that we might have nought to justifie our practice withal: For if the Scriptures belong only to baptized Believers, they then belong not to the rest; and in truth, if they could perswade us to yield them this grant, we should but sorrily justifie our practice. But I would ask these men, If the Word of God came out from them? or if