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Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…
Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smithies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smythies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...
London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Nathaniel Crouch ..., 1689
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Neither is it amiss to give you what Dr. 1Hammond speaks upon this account in his Annotations upon John 13. 10. where he saith, that [Greek or Hebrew] signifies an Immersion, or washing the whole Body, and which answereth to the Hebrew Word [Greek or Hebrew] used for dipping in the Old Testament, and therefore tells us upon Matth. 3. 1. that John baptized in a River, viz. in Jordan, Mark 1. 5. in a Confluence of Water, as Aenon, John 3. 23. because 'tis said there was much Water; which he further makes out by the Name by which the Greeks called the Lakes where they used to wash; also the Ancients, he says, called their Baptisterions, or the ⟨p. 31⟩Vessels containing their Baptismal Water, Columbethras, viz. swimming or diving-places, being made very large with Partitions for Men and Women.