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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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But to proceed, here I cannot well omit that which Mr. Daniel Rogers, 1a most worthy English Writer, hath said in a Treatise of his, It ought (saith he) to be the Churches part to cleave to the Institution, which is Dipping, especially it being not left arbitrary by our Church to the Discretion of the Minister; but required to dip or dive: And further saith, that he betrays the Church, whose Officer he is, to a disordered Error, if he cleave not to the Institution, which is to Dip. What abundance of Betrayers of the Truth and Church too have we in these days? How little is the Institution or Practice of the Primitive Christians minded amongst many good Men? and where is the Spirit of Reformation? And doubtless that famous Author, and Learned Critic Casaubon was in the right; will you have his words; ⟨p. 36⟩I doubt not,2 saith he, but, contrary to our Churches Intention, this Error having once crept in, is maintained still by the Carnal Ease of such as, looking more at themselves than at God, stretch the Liberty of the Church in this case deeper and further than either the Church her self would, or the Solemness of this Sacrament may well and safely admit.—Afterwards further saith, I confess my self unconvinced by Demonstration of Scripture for Infants Sprinkling.
But to proceed, here I cannot well omit that which Mr. Daniel Rogers, 1a most worthy English Writer, hath said in a Treatise of his, It ought (saith he) to be the Churches part to cleave to the Institution, which is Dipping, especially it being not left arbitrary by our Church to the Discretion of the Minister; but required to dip or dive: And further saith, that he betrays the Church, whose Officer he is, to a disorder'd Error, if he cleave not to the Institution, which is to Dip. What abundance of Betrayers of the Truth and Church too have we in these days? How little is the Institution or Practice of the Primitive Christians minded amongst many good Men? and where is the Spirit of Reformation? And doubtless that famous Author, and Learned Critick Casaubon was in the right; will you have his words; ⟨p. 36⟩