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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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We know but one saving Baptism, in regard there is but one Death for the World,1 and one Resurrection from the Dead, of which Baptism is an Image.
- 1Justin Martyr.
Here Paul exclaiming,1 they passed through the Sea, and were all baptized in the Cloud, and in the Sea†; he calls Baptism the Passage of the Sea; for it was a flight of Death caused by the Water.
Here Paul exclaiming,1 they pass'd through the Sea, and were all baptized in the Cloud, and in the Sea†; he calls Baptism the Passage of the Sea; for it was a flight of Death caused by the Water.
- 1Basil the Great.
- †Basil of Seleucia.
To be baptized,1 and so plunged, and to return up, and rise out of the Water, is a Symbol ⟨p. 49⟩