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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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And when Jesus was dipped he came out of the Water; hence they, for John the Baptist, read John the Dipper; and for he baptized them, he dipped them. Why our Translators, who have been so faithful and exact generally in all things (as is acknowledged by all Learned Godly Men in the translating the holy Bible) should leave the word Baptism (it being a Greek Word) and not translate it into our Language, as the Dutch have done into theirs, I know not, unless it were to favour their own Practice of Baptising or Sprinkling, which the word Baptize will in no wise bear, as is confessed by a whole cloud of Witnesses.
And when Jesus was dipp'd he came out of the Water; hence they, for John the Baptist, read John the Dipper; and for he baptized them, he dipp'd them. Why our Translators, who have been so faithful and exact generally in all things (as is acknowledged by all Learned Godly Men in the translating the holy Bible) should leave the word Baptism (it being a Greek Word) and not translate it into our Language, as the Dutch have done into theirs, I know not, unless it were to favour their own Practice of Bantising or Sprinkling, which the word Baptize will in no wise bear, as is confest by a whole cloud of Witnesses.
Mr. Ball in his Catechism renders it washing by Dipping.1
- 1Ball.
See also Dr. Ames in his Marrow of Divinity.1
- 1Book 1. Cap. 40.