WORKS ON TERMS OF COMMUNION,
AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHRISTIAN BAPTISM

AND THE BAPTISM OF JOHN.

LONDON:

HOLDSWORTH AND

AND BALL,
18, st. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

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 .

19

SECTION II.

The Argument for Strict Communion, from the Order

of Words in the Apostolic Commission, considered .

43

SECTION III.

The Argument from Apostolical Precedent, and from

the different Significations of the two Institutions,

considered .

54

SECTION IV.

Our supposed Opposition to the Universal Suffrages

of the Church, considered

71

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PART II.

The Positive Grounds on which we justify the Practice

of Mixed Communion

82

SECTION I.

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Free Communion urged, from the Obligation of Bro-

therly Love.

82

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

89

SECTION III.

Pædobaptists a Part of the true Church, and their

Exclusion on that account Unlawful .

105

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SECTION IV.

The Exclusion of Pædobaptists from the Lord's Table

considered as a Punishment.

118

SECTION V.

On the Impossibility of reducing the Practice of Strict

Communion to any general Principle .

133

SECTION VI.

The Impolicy of the Practice of Strict Communion

considered

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ON THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHRISTIAN

BAPTISM AND THE BAPTISM OF John

Preface .

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BEING

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A REPLY TO THE Rev. JOSEPH KINGHORN,

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

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CHAP. I.

Remarks on Mr. Kinghorn's Statement of the Con-

troversy

251

CHAP. II.

His Attempt to establish the Connexion contended

for, from the Apostolic Commission and Primitive

Precedent

263

CHAP. III.

The supposed necessary Connexion betwixt the two

positive Institutes farther discussed, wherein other

Arguments are examined

300

The Charge of dispensing with a Christian Ordinance,

considered

ib.

CHAP. V.

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 .

347

CHAP. VI.

The Propriety of appealing, in this controversy, to the

peculiar Principles of the Pædobaptists, briefly ex-

amined and discussed.

368

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PART III.

In which the Insufficiency of the Reply Mr. Kinghorn

has made to the principal Arguments urged for

Mixed Communion, is exposed

381