Open Communion Or the Principles of Restricted Communion
Open Communion Or the Principles of Restricted Communion
S W Samuel Worchester Whitney
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4. BAPTISM NOT A TERM OF COMMUNION. 57 of repentance, and so on. They invariably leave off the distinguishing terms that are employed in connexion with the baptism John administered, and thus make a distinction between their own in- stitution and his. To me this fact seems of no little weight in deciding the question. Another circumstance, and one that affords in- dubitable evidence that these institutions are dis- tinct, is the fact that those of John's disciples who became converts to Christi...anity after the Savior's resurrection, on becoming such, were rebaptized ; that is, were baptized unto Christ. An instance of this we have in the baptism of twelve of the forerunner's disciples at Ephesus, the account of which is given in Acts xix. The apostle Paul, having come to Ephesus and found these disciples there, asked them if they had received the Holy Ghost since they first believed. Their reply was, " We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. " Whether it was because, in those days, the reception of the Holy Ghost was a usual accompaniment of Christian baptism, or be- cause this ordinance was administered in the name of the Holy Ghost, in connexion with that of the Father and of the Son ; yet so it was, that their saying they had not so much as heard of a Holy Ghost, disclosed the fact that they had not re- ceived Christian baptism.
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