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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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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.
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, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, could Jesus be said to be sprinkled into Jordan? 'tis proper to say he was baptiz'd, that is, dipp'd into Jordan, and that was the Act and nothing else, as all the Learned acknowledg.
Moreover, Philip needed not to have put that noble Person, who was a Man of great Authority under Candace Queen of the Ethiopians, to the ⟨p. 35⟩trouble to come out of his Chariot (if Sprinkling had been Baptism) and to go into the Water and dip him; or if Sprinkling might have done as well as Dipping, sure Philp would on this occasion have dispensed with Immersion, and let Rantism have served, considering he was a great Man and on a Journey; he might have fetched a little Water in his hand and have sprinkled him in the Chariot. But as Philip had preached Baptism to him, so there is like ground to think that the Eunuch very well understood what it was, and readily submitted to it; but if Sprinkling would not excuse them, I know not how any Christian can think it may excuse us in these days; we have no Reason to think Christ Jesus, or his Apostles, did do or teach any thing in vain, yet so we must conclude, if he went into a River to receive no more than Sprinkling; and so we must think of Philip and the Eunuch also.