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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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We may see,1 saith Calvin, what fashion the Ancients had to administer Baptism, for they plunged the whole Body into the Water: The use with us is now, saith he, that the Minister casts a few drops of Water only upon the Body, o• upon the Head.
- 1Calvin on Act. 8. 38.
And upon John's baptizing in Aenon near Salim, Joh. 3. 23. saith the same Calvin, From this place we may gather that John and Christ administered Baptism by plunging the whole Body into the Water.
And upon John's baptizing in Aenon near Salim, Joh. 3. 23. saith the same Calvin, From this place we may gather that John and Christ administred Baptism by plunging the whole Body into the Water.