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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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The Assembly in their Annotations on this Text, say, they were wont to dip the whole Body; and Piscator on the place (as I find him quoted by a worthy Divine) saith, the ancient manner of Baptism was that the whole Body was dipped into the Water.
The Assembly in their Annotations on this Text, say, they were wont to dip the whole Body; and Piscator on the place (as I find him quoted by a worthy Divine) saith, the ancient manner of Baptism was that the whole Body was dipp'd into the Water.
Certainly it had been a vain and weak thing for them to have gone down into the River to be sprinkled with a little Water.
There is no ground to think they would ever have done so, if Sprinkling or Rantism had been the Ordinance required of them, the manner was not to apply Water to the Subject, as some do, but the Subject to (nay into) the Water.
In Mark 1. 9. 'Tis said, Jesus was baptized of John in Jordan: Now, saith one on this place, it had been non-sense for Mark to say that Jesus was baptized in Jordan, if it had been sprinkling, because the Greek reads it into Jordan, [Greek or Hebrew], could Jesus be said to be sprinkled into Jordan? 'tis proper to say he was baptized, that is, dipped into Jordan, and that was the Act and nothing else, as all the Learned acknowledge.