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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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IF any desire to be furnished that excellent Book, written some times since by Mr. William Kiffin, proving no unbaptized Person ought to be admitted to the Lord's Table; may have them at Mr. Nath. Crouch's, at the sign of the Bell in the Poultry, or at the Authors House in Southwark:
Gold Refined; or; Baptism in its Primitive Purity.
Gold Refin'd; or; Baptism in its Primitive Purity.
CHAP. I. Wherein the Baptism of Water is proved to be that intended in the Commission, and so a standing Ordinance till the End of the World.
I Having for many Years last past observed with what strength of Argument some worthy Christians have laboured to defend the Sacred Ordinance of Baptism; and how they have endeavoured to refine it from all Human Mixtures, to the great Satisfaction and Establishment of many Persons in the Land; yet notwithstanding, finding how that still a Multitude of gracious People remaining very ignorant about it, and other very obstinately and reproachfully do slight and contemn it, casting very scandalous and scurrilous Reflections upon those who practise it according to the Primitive Institution, both from the Pulpit and the Press: I have been put upon writing something further in the Defence of our selves and Practice herein.