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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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Sirs, How dare you, In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, say, I Baptize thee, &c. when you do but Rantize the Person? for you neither dip the Person, nor wash him. Has the Holy Trinity given you any Authority so to do? For God's sake, for time to come, use the Names of those Persons by whose Authority it was first set on foot and given forth, till you can show you have Authority from Jesus Christ to sprinkle, or pour a little Water upon the Face of a poor Infant, or an adult Person. Nor is it any ⟨p. 40⟩marvel, when they did dip poor Children in Water, that some of them died, sith they are not the true Subjects of Baptism; if they had, no doubt God would have preserved them, as well as he did those Babes whom once he required to be Circumcised. Can any believe God would command any such thing to be done, that should endanger the Life of a Child? that was doubtless a just Rebuke for the profanation of Christ's blessed Ordinance; he will one day, I fear, say, Who hath required this at your hands? Nay, and who knows what Judgments and Wrath may come upon this Land for the abominable abuse of the Sacred Institution of Baptism. God many times shows Men their Sin, by the punishment he brings upon them, if you are so fond of Humane Traditions and Innovations.
Sirs, How dare you, In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, say, I Baptize thee, &c. when you do but Rantize the Person? for you neither dip the Person, nor wash him. Has the Holy Trinity given you any Authority so to do? For God's sake, for time to come, use the Names of those Persons by whose Authority it was first set on foot and given forth, till you can shew you have Authority from Jesus Christ to sprinkle, or pour a little VVater upon the Face of a poor Infant, or an adult Person. Nor is it any ⟨p. 40⟩marvel, when they did dip poor Children in VVater, that some of them died, sith they are not the true Subjects of Baptism; if they had, no doubt God would have preserved them, as well as he did those Babes whom once he required to be Circumcised. Can any believe God would command any such thing to be done, that should endanger the Life of a Child? that was doubtless a just Re•uke for the prophanation of Christ's blessed Ordinance; he will one day, I fear, say, Who hath required this at your hands? Nay, and who knows what Judgments and VVrath may come upon this Land for the abominable abuse of the Sacred Institution of Baptism. God many times shews Men their Sin, by the punishment he brings upon them, if you are so fond of Humane Traditions and Innovations.