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JOHN HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.

The Argument from the Order of Time in which Bap-

tism and the Lord's Supper are suposed to have

been instituted.

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SECTION II.

The Argument for Strict Communion, from the Order

of Words in the Apostolic Commission, considered.

SECTION III.

The Argument from Apostolical Precedent, and from

the different Significations of the two Institutions,

considered

SECTION IV.

Our supposed Opposition to the Universal Suffrages

of the Church, considered

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SECTION I.

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Free Communion urged, from the Obligation of Bro-

therly Love.

SECTION II.

The Practice of Open Communion argued, from the

express Injunction of Scripture respecting the Con-

duct to be maintained by sincere Christians who

differ in their Religious Sentiments

SECTION III.

Pædobaptists a Part of the true Church, and their

Exclusion on that account Unlawful

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SECTION IV.

The Exclusion of Pædobaptists from the Lord's Table

considered as a Punishment.

SECTION V.

On the Impossibility of reducing the Practice of Strict

Communion to any general Principle.

ON THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHRISTIAN

BAPTISM AND THE BAPTISM OF JOHN

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A REPLY TO THE REV. JOSEPH KINGHORN, BEING A

FURTHER VINDICATION OF THE PRACTICE OF FREE

COMMUNION

Preface.

PART I.

The Fundamental Position; or, the supposed neces-

sary Connexion between the two positive Insti-

tutes of Christianity, examined

His Attempt to establish the Connexion contended

for, from the Apostolic Commission and Primitive

Precedent

CHAP. III.

The supposed necessary Connexion betwixt the two

positive Institutes farther discussed, wherein other

Arguments are examined

An Inquiry how far the Practice of mixed Communion

affects the Grounds of Dissent from the Church of

England, and from the Church of Rome.

CHAP. VI.

The Propriety of appealing, in this Controversy, to the

peculiar Principles of the Pædobaptists, briefly ex-

amined and discussed.

PART III.

In which the Insufficiency of the Reply Mr. Kinghorn

has made to the principal Arguments urged for

Mixed Communion, is exposed

CHAP. VII.

His Reply to the Argument deduced from the Scrip-

tural Injunction of Mutual Forbearance and

Brotherly Love, considered

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331

ib.

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381

ib.

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CHAP. VIII.

On the Argument for Mixed Communion, founded on

the Pædobaptists being a part of the true Church . 413

CHAP. IX.

The Injustice of the Exclusion of other Denominations

considered as a Punishment.

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CHAP. X.

On the Contrariety of the Maxims and Sentiments of

the Advocates of Strict Communion, to those which

prevailed in the early Ages; in which the Innova-

tion imputed to them by the Author, is vindicated

from the Charge of Misrepresentation

CHAP. XI.

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Conclusion

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