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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 4: Proving that Baptism is Dipping, Plunging, or Burying the whole Body in Water, In the N…
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And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, vers. 4.
This being so, let none blame us for contending so earnestly for this Ordinance according to the Primitive Purity, or its Original Glory, wherein, according to the gracious Design of Jesus Christ we daily receive, in beholding the Administration of this Sacrament, (as well as in the Lord's Supper what is represented to us) such a blessed establishment in the Truth of the Doctrine of Christ's Death, Burial, and Resurrection, as well as in many other Respects, the Profit and Use appears to us, no Ordinance being more significant, or ordained upon more weighty and glorious Purposes and Designs: for certainly, if we consider the grand Errors and Heresies of the present Age, so boldly maintained amongst us, (by those deceived People who cry up the Light within to be the True Christ; or that the Light or Power in that Person, called Jesus of Nazareth, distinct and apart from the Body that was Crucified, &c. is all the Christ they own) it will clearly convince us how gracious Christ was to appoint this Ordinance, besides the Word to confirm us in the Belief, that the True Saviour was a Man, and that he did die, and was buried, and rose again, which we see in a Figure represented before our Eyes, in the administration of this Ordinance, And that this is signified in Baptism, we shall now prove;
This being so, let none blame us for contending so earnestly for this Ordinance according to the Primitive Purity, or its Original Glory, wherein, according to the gracious Design of Jesus Christ we daily receive, in beholding the Administration of this Sacrament, (as well as in the Lord's Supper what is represented to us) such a blessed establishment in the Truth of the Doctrine of Christ's Death, Burial, and Resurrection, as well as in many other Respects, the Profit and Use appears to us, no Ordinance being more significant, or ordained upon more weighty and glorious Purposes and Designs: for certainly, if we consider the grand Errors and Heresies of the present Age, so boldly maintain'd amongst us, (by those deceived People who cry up the Light within to be the True Christ; or that the Light or Power in that Person, called Jesus of Nazareth, distinct and apart from the Body that was Crucified, &c. is all the Christ they own) it will clearly convince us how gracious Christ was to appoint this Ordinance, besides the Word to confirm us in the Belief, that the True Saviour was a Man, and that he did die, and was buried, and rose again, which we see in a Figure represented before our Eyes, in the administration of this Ordinance, And that this is signified in Baptism, we shall now prove;