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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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Chapter 3: Proving that Baptism is dipping, plunging, and covering the Body all over in Water from…
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CHAP. III. Proving that Baptism is dipping, plunging, and covering the Body all over in Water from the Practice of the Primitive Times.
Certainly no better course or way in the next place we can take to find out what Baptism is, than to examine the Scripture, and see what the thing was which the Saints practised in the Primitive Time, where we read they did baptize, or were baptized: for as the Jews in Circumcision all along were to practise that Rite, as it was commanded, and practised by Abraham; and keep the Passover as it was given to them from the Lord by Moses, together with all other Ordinances and Services whatsoever, it behoved them to observe the first or Primitive Institution and Practice of every particular Duty, and were not to derogate from thence in any thing whatsoever; and for their adulterating ⟨p. 33⟩any of the Ordinances of God, they brought themselves under the Wrath of God, and many heavy Judgments from him, as the Old Testament doth sufficiently witness; so it behoveth us, I say, to see to the first or Primary Institution and Practice of Baptism in the Gospel-Time, that being a Pattern or Rule to us, and to all Christians to the end of the World, in respect of every Gospel-Ordinance; and if we derogate from that Rule, we must expect to meet with sharp Rebuke from the Almighty first or last. Now that that Ordinance which is called Baptism, is Immersion, Dipping, or Plunging into Water, will appear, if we observe the Practice of John the Baptist, who was the first that was sent by Christ to baptize; read Mat. 3. 6. he 'tis positively said baptized in a River, viz. in the River Jordan.
CErtainly no better course or way in the next place we can take to find out what Baptism is, than to examine the Scripture, and see what the thing was which the Saints practised in the Primitive Time, where we read they did baptize, or were baptized: for as the Jews in Circumcision all along were to practise that Rite, as it was commanded, and practised by Abraham; and keep the Passeover as it was given to them from the Lord by Moses, together with all other Ordinances and Services whatsoever, it behoved them to observe the first or Primitive Institution and Practice of every particular Duty, and were not to derogate from thence in any thing whatsoever; and for their adulterating