Excerpt from Close Communion, or Open Communion?: An Experience and an Argument Differences of Judgment on Water Baptism no Bar to Com munion. The Author does not use the term close com munion invidiously, but as a convenient name for the practice under consideration. It will be noticed in his Experience that the main barrier which kept him from Open communion was the doctrine of Indorsement. This was so because he then regarded water baptism as essential to the Lord's supper, and feared that he would sanc tion what he considered the double error of Pedo baptists in the method and subjects of the former, by inviting them to the latter, or partaking of it with them. It was not until he saw that the loving command of Christ, This do in remembrance of Me, gave the requisite authority to all His disciples, and heard Paul's question, Who art thou that judgest another man's servant P with the conclusive rejoin der, To his own master he standeth, or falleth, that he felt free to commune with fellow Christians, whom he considered, as far as water baptism was concerned, unbaptized. At this stage he would have appreciated the noble apology which was made recently by Dean Alford for participating in the exercises of Cheshunt College. 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.