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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
Publication: London, :: Printed by J.M. for Henry Cripps, and Lodowick Lloyd, and are to be sold at their shop in Popes-head Alley,; 1653.
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Subject terms: Baptism -- Early works to 1800.; Infant baptism -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A85408.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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Whether, when Paul, soon after his conversion, assayed to joyn himself to the Church and Disciples at Jerusalem (Act. 9. 26.) did this Church make any enquiry after his Baptism, as whether he had been baptized, or no, in order to his reception amongst them; or did they know that he had been baptized? Or did Barnabas, in

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giving satisfaction to the Apostles and Church concerning his meetness to be admitted into communion with them, so much as mention his being Baptized, but only declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the Name of Jesus? Acts 9. 27.

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