Open Communion

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Excerpt from Open Communion: Shown to Be Unscriptural and Deleterious The leading object of the lamented author of this little volume, was to furnish his own denomination with a succinct defence of their practice in restricting the privilege of sacramental communion to such as belong to their own churches. As collateral justification of this practice, he has also here furnished a refutation of the Pedo-baptist view of the questions relating to the subjects and mode of baptism, showing that that view is an innovation on the spirit and teachings of the New Testament. It is but reasonable to believe that had the author himself been permitted to arrange and give the finishing touch to the materials of the work, it would have been, in some respects, at least, more complete and satisfactory. Still, the editor has evidently prepared and arranged the materials in his possession to the best advantage. The discussion on Communion, is a review of the positions and reasonings of Robert Hall, who held that "each particular Church is to tho Universal Church, as a part is to the whole, " and, consequently, that "no Church has a right to establish terms of communion which are not terms of salvation." The erroneousness of these positions, and the false reasonings founded upon them, Dr. Waller has successfully exposed. Nothing farther seems necessary - tho overthrow is complete, final. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.