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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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1. The first Scripture is Rom. 6. Therefore we are buried with Christ in Baptism: He seems,1 say our late Annotators, to allude to the manner of Baptizing in those warm Eastern Countries, which was to dip or plunge the Party baptized, and as it were to bury him for a while under Water.
1. The first Scripture is Rom. 6. Therefore we are buried with Christ in Baptism: He seems,1 say our late Annotators, to allude to the manner of Baptizing in those warm Eastern Countries, which was to dip or plung the Party baptized, and as it were to bury him for a while under Water.
- 1Pool's Annotat.
Cajetan, 1upon this place, saith, we are buried with him by Baptism into Death. By our Burying he declares our Death by the Ceremony of Baptism: because he that is baptized is put under Water, and by this carries a Similitude of him that was buried, who was put under the Earth now, because none are buried but dead Men—from this very thing that we are buried in Baptism, we are assimilated to Christ buried, or when he was buried.
Cajetan, 1upon this place, saith, we are buried with him by Baptism into Death. By our Burying he declares our Death by the Ceremony of Baptism: because he that is baptized is put under Water, and by this carries a Similitude of him that was buried, who was put under the Earth now, because none are buried but dead Men—from this very thing that we are buried in Baptism, we are assimulated to Christ buried, or when he was buried.