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truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	reason_n	1,612	5	4.9023	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85408	Philadelphia: or, XL. queries peaceably and inoffensively propounded for the discovery of truth in this question, or case of conscience; whether persons baptized (as themselves call baptism) after a profession of faith, may, or may not, lawfully, and with good conscience, hold communion with such churches, who judg themselves truly baptized, though in infancy, and before such a profession? Together with some few brief touches about infant, and after-baptism. By J.G. a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing G1189; Thomason E702_7; ESTC R207109	25,228	32

Whether did not Paul and Barnabas hold Christian Communion with those Christian Converts which they made at Antioch Acts 13. 43 48 52. and with those also which they made soon after in great numbers at Iconium Acts 14. 1 4 Or doth it any ways appear from the Scripture that these Converts during the continuance of Paul and Barnabas with them yea or at any time after were baptized If not is it any ways necessary that we should believe or ought it to be any Article of our Faith to believe that they were baptized If it be not necessary then we are at liberty to believe that Paul and Barnabas did hold Christian Communion with unbaptized Christians especially considering that the tenor of the History diligently consulted especially concerning those who were converted to the Faith at Antioch and the short abode of Paul and Barnabas with them after their Conversion together with the troublesom oppositions which the Jews of the place made all the while against them makes it probable in the highest that they were not baptized at least whilest these men continued with them XVII Whether in case any member one or more of any Christian Church or Society which he judgeth faithful in the main and willing and ready to walk up to their light shall verily think and be perswaded that he hath discovered some defect or error in this Church may such an one lawfully and with a good conscience give himself a discharge from all care service otherwise due from him unto it by renouncing the communion thereof upon such a pretence or occasion especially before or until he hath with all long-suffering and meekness and with the best of his understanding endevored the information of this Church in the Truth and the rectifying the judgments of the members thereof considering that as in the natural body so in the spiritual or Church-body the members ought to have the same care one for another and if one member suffereth all the members to suffer with it a as the Apostle speaketh and consequently no one member being healthful and sound ought to desert its fellow-members being sickly and weak especially whilest there is yet any hope of their cure and healing XVIII Whether ought a company of true Believers concerning whose lawful Church constitution there can no other thing with reason and truth be objected to be vilified or separated from as a false Church or no Church of Christ at all only because either 1. They do not practice contrary to their judgment and conscience such things one or more which some men conceive it meet they should practice Or 2. because either God hath not enlightened them to see every thing which some other men see or else because Satan hath not blinded them so as to make them ignorant of such Truths one or more whereof some others are ignorant judging them to be Errors XIX Whether is it reasonable or Christian that a company of true Believers who have met together in the simplicity of their hearts in the fear of God in the Name of Jesus Christ mutually engaging themselves as in the presence of God to walk together in all the Ordinances of the Gospel as far as they shall from time to time be revealed unto them and walking accordingly should be infamously stigmatized as no Church no true Church of Christ and consequently be esteemed but as a rabble rout of the world only pretending Churchship and this by some one or a few persons only because they cannot see with their eyes or practice that as necessary the necessity whereof after much and earnest prayer unto God after much enquiry and search and this with all diligence and impartialness in order to their conviction and satisfaction doth no ways to them appear XX Whether is it Christian or meet for any one person man or woman to bid defiance unto an whole Church or fellowship of Saints being many and who are otherwise sober grave and conscientiously faithful in all their walking onely because they cannot with a good Conscience say Amen to every notion and conceit which these persons themselves judg worthy of reverence and honour and particularly because they cannot against the sence Judgment and practise as well of all Christian Antiquity as of all the Reformed Churches very few if any excepted in the Christian world thus spiritually court their private apprehensions about the time and manner of an external Administration especially considering that they neither have nor can either shew precept example or any competent ground otherwise from the Scriptures to commend these their apprehensions unto the conscience of any man Or is there any precept which injoyns baptizing or dipping in the name of Christ after a baptizing in infancy into this name Or is there any example in Scripture of any baptized after profession of Faith who had been baptized or who judged themselves and were generally so judged by others to have been baptized before If neither is it not a clear case that here is neither precept nor example in Scripture which reacheth home to the case or which warranteth the practice of the Children of after-Baptism amongst us And as for any competent ground otherwise to justifie the practice hath such a thing ever seen the light of the Sun hitherto XXI Whether do not they who magnifie the ceremony or external rite of Baptism to such an height as to estimate Christianity by it or to judg them no true or sound Christians who are without it stumble at the same stone of danger and peril of Soul at which the Jews stumbled when they practiced and urged Circumcision as necessary for Justification to whom upon this account Paul testified Behold I Paul say unto you that if ye be circumcised meaning with an opinion of a necessity of your being circumcised for your Justification before God Christ shall profit you nothing a considering 1. That Circumcision was an Ordinance of God yea as great and solemn an Ordinance as Baptism and 2. That when Paul threatened those who so magnified it as was said with lofing their part and portion in Christ it was as Lawful though haply not so necessary and yet in some cases it was necessary too as Baptism it self yea and the Apostle himself administred it as well as he did Baptism yea and pronounced it profitable rightly understood and practiced Rom. 3. 1. 2. Or might not the same threatening I mean of losing the great blessing of Justification and Salvation by Christ have been with altogether as much truth and necessity administred upon a like occasion and account unto persons so opinionated of circumcision as the Galathians were even when and whilst the use and practice of it was every whit as necessary or rather more necessary as the use of Baptism now is XXII Whether is there any precept or example in the Scriptures of any person Baptized after many years profession of the Gospel or after any considerable measure of assurance