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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64226	A brief enquiry whether they who assert, and they who deny, the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, may have communion together at the Lords table By Joseph Taylor.	Taylor, Joseph, 17th/18th cent.	1698 (1698)	Wing T536; ESTC R220650	24,202	72

who deny this ought not to have Communion together and if we look upon professed Christians of all Persuasions we shall find they do so The Idolatry of the Church of Rome for which the Protestants separate from them is not so gross as this for this is directly and formally giving Divine Adoration to a Creature only especially in those that deny his Deity and yet give him Divine Worship The Reasons for which the Presbyterians and Independants separate from the Church of England are very Trifles in Comparison of this Most baptized Churches maintain a Separation from those that are unbaptized and many will allow Communion with none that are not in the Profession and Practice of those six Principles Heb. 6.1 2. But what is Baptism or Laying on of Hands to this Principle can any urge that they are of that Consequence that they who assert or they who deny them must be either Blasphemers or Idolaters That they deny the true Christ and bring in another in his stead that they deny the Lord that bought them that Christianity it self stands or falls with it If then a Separation between the Baptists and Pedo-baptists is warrantable that they which are rightly Baptized and those which are not ought not to have Communion together much more ought not they that assert and deny that Believe and Disbelieve this great Principle Objection Obj. There are but few who are capable to understand this great Mystery and therefore it cannot be a Principle of such Consequence Answer The meanest Christian is capable to believe what is required of them in this Case the Holy Scriptures reveal as we have shewn that Jesus Christ is God Eternal Almighty c. That be is Man of the Seed of the Woman of the Seed of David according to the Flesh and did partake of our Flesh and Blood So that he was both God and Man this is plain But how these two Natures did unite or after what manner this Union was made as it is past our Capacity to reach it so this is our Comfort we are not obliged to understand it True Faith believes the Thing notwithstanding Reason cannot Fathom the manner of them and this Answers all the clamours made in this Case for generally those Christians that are not concerned in these Controversies believe this Truth with the greatest stedfastness they read in Scripture that Jesus Christ is the true God and Eternal Life that he is God over all Blessed for ever that he made the World and all Things in it And they read that he was Man like unto us in all Things Sin only excepted and they believe these Things firmly and truely because God hath said them and ask not with a carping mind how can these Things be they adore it as a Mystery but humbly believe it as an undoubted Truth Objection There are many whose Lives and Conversations for many Years past declare them to be good Christians that are Holy and Pious Men Men of great Study Labour Sufferings and Self-denial that are desirous to know what is the Mind and Will of God and yet believe not this Principle but the Contrary ought we not therefore in Charity to esteem them good Christians and have Communion with them notwithstanding Answer I Answer 1. In the Words of the Apostle Gal. 1.8 9. Though we or an Angel from Heaven Preach any other Gospel unto you then that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed 2. We are to distinguish between the Seducers that cunningly lye in wait to deceive and those who thro' Ignorance Simplicity or flexibleness of Spirit are seduced by them to the first we are not to give Place no not for an hour Gal. 2.5 Mat. 7.15 beware of false Prophets the Elders of Churches are peculiarly charged to keep these out of the Flock Acts 20.28 29 30 31. The Apostle Treats these with the greatest Severity Beware of Dogs beware of evil workers beware of the Concision Phil. 3.2 Whose Mouths must be stopped Tit. 1.11 Because their Words will eat as doth a Canker 2 Tim. 2.17 2. To those that are seduced by them we are to carry it with the greatest Love and Tenderness in Order to regain them so the Apostle Treats the seduced Galatians Gal. 4.19 My little Children of whom I Travel in Birth again He mixeth Intreaties with his sharp Rebukes 2 Tim. 2.25 26. Thus we should in meekness instruct those that oppose themselves that they may be recovered out of the Snare of the Devil 2. If after all means used they persist in their Heresies they are to be rejected for a little Leaven leaveneth the whole Lump Tit. 2.10 11. after the first and second Admonition reject and this fully answereth the Objection for let their Lives and Conversations be never so exact let them be Men of never so great Study Labour Sufferings and Self-denial yet they are to be rejected by the Church which shews that notwithstanding this they are not good Christians and therefore their Piety but seeming and not real because good Christians are not to be rejected from the Communion of the Church as Hereticks And as for their being willing to know the Truth we find by Experience that after they have once espoused and broached their Heresies they set themselves with all cunning subtlety and obstinacy to oppose the Truth and maintain their Errors shutting their Eyes against all the Evidence that the Truth carries with it and using all ways whatsoever to evade the force thereof whereby whatsoever they may say it is plain to every Observer that they are not willing to know any Thing to be Truth that is contrary to their professed Principles hence then it is so far from Christian Charity that it is against the express Rule and Law of Christ Jesus the Head and Lord of Christians to have Communion with them FINIS