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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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Answ. To this we always answer, and again say and testify, that the Greek word to sprinkle, is, [Greek or Hebrew], Rantizo; and that the Translators themselves never so much as once, in all the New Testament, render Baptism, Sprinkling; and where is the Man that affirms the word signifies Sprinkling?
Answ. To this we always answer, and again say and testify, that the Greek word to sprinkle, is, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Rantizo; and that the Translators themselves never so much as once, in all the New Testament, render Baptism, Sprinkling; and where is the Man that affirms the word signifies Sprinkling?
Object. But the word Baptizo will bear Washing.
Object. But the word Baptizo will bear VVashing.
Answ. We answer then, 'Tis such washing as is done by dipping; so much as is baptized, or washed, is dipped, and your Rantism is no washing; and we also say, and that too with good Authority, that though the word Baptizo doth sometimes allow of that Acceptation, yet it is not the direct, immediate, genuine, and primary signification of it, for that is to dip, or plunge, as you see in the Lexicons. But at the best 'tis but indirectly, collaterally, by the by (as one observes) so meant, or improperly and remotely, that it so signifies: And we ask, Whether when we try any Matter by the signification of the word as 'tis in the Original, we shall go to the direct, original, prime, and proper, or to the occasional, remote, indirect and improper signification to be tried by? Your practice it seems is built only upon the indirect, improper and remote acceptation of the word, and ⟨p. 38⟩