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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. I must confess, in a late Discourse I had with a Minister of the Church of England, he pleaded for this, seeing he could not defend Rantism. But to give a direct Answer, pray consider whether it be the Person, (viz. the Man or Woman) or part of the Person that Christ commanded to be baptized; if not the whole Body, why might it not serve only to wash or dip the Hands? But if it were the Hands only, or the Feet, or the Head only that was to be Baptized, i. e. dipped, a small Vessel of Water would have served, and no need for Christ or John to have gone into Rivers and Places where there was much Water, to baptize.
Answ. I must confess, in a late Discourse I had with a Minister of the Church of England, he pleaded for this, seeing he could not defend Rantism. But to give a direct Answer, pray consider whether it be the Person, (viz. the Man or Woman) or part of the Person that Christ commanded to be baptized; if not the whole Body, why might it not serve only to wash or dip the Hands? But if it were the Hands only, or the Feet, or the Head only that was to be Baptized, i. e. dipped, a small Vessel of Water would have served, and no need for Christ or John to have gone into Rivers and Places where there was much VVater, to baptize.
2. It is not said, John baptized him, i. e. our blessed Saviour, not part of him: But as the blessed ⟨p. 41⟩Virgin bore him in her Womb, and brought him forth, and laid him in a Manger; so John baptized, or dipped him, that is, his whole Body into Jordan, or in the River Jordan. Moreover, 'tis said, Acts 8. 12. They were baptized, both Men and Women, (that is, the Bodies, the whole Bodies of those Men and Women) and not some Part or Members of them: If this be not granted, we shall be run into many strange Absurdities almost every where in reading the Scriptures.
2. It is not said, John baptized him, i. e. our blessed Saviour, not part of him: But as the blessed ⟨p. 41⟩