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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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To be baptized,1 and so plunged, and to return up, and rise out of the Water, is a Symbol ⟨p. 49⟩of the descent into the Grave, and return from thence.
- 1Chrysostom. Ambros.
Baptism is a Pledge and Representation of the Resurrection‖; Baptism is an Earnest of the Resurrection; Immersion is a Representation of Death and Burial. Innumerable are the Testimonies which might be added. But these I think sufficient to prove that Baptism is an Image of the Death and Resurrection of Christ, (from hence we acknowledge the Mystery of our Religion, his Deity and Humanity) and of all the Faithful who are baptized in his Faith, from Death to Sin, to newness of Life, which if they lead in this World, they have a most assured hope, that being dead they shall hereafter rise to Glory with Christ:—Which things if so, what Affinity is to be seen between a Burial and a Washing, that Christian Baptism should be thought to draw its Original from Jewish Lotions? for if it were true that the end of our Baptism were to signify a Washing, or Ablution; or if it were true, that the Jews of old did admit their Children or Proselytes into their Church, by the administration of any diving, as it is asserted by many Learned Persons of late Days; yet to prove that our Baptism is indeed an Image of Death, and Resurrection, not of washing, enough hath been said. Thus far Sir Norton Knatchbul.
Baptism is a Pledg and Representation of the Resurrection‖; Baptism is an Earnest of the Resurrection; Immersion is a Representation of Death and Burial. Innumerable are the Testimonies which might be added. But these I think sufficient to prove that Baptism is an Image of the Death and Resurrection of Christ, (from hence we acknowledg the Mystery of our Religion, his Deity and Humanity) and of all the Faithful who are baptized in his Faith, from Death to Sin, to newness of Life, which if they lead in this World, they have a most assured hope, that being dead they shall hereafter rise to Glory with Christ:—Which things if so, what Affinity is to be seen between a Burial and a Washing, that Christian Baptism should be thought to draw its Original from Jewish Lotions? for if it were true that the end of our Baptism were to signify a Washing, or Ablution; or if it were true, that the Jews of old did admit their Children or Proselytes into their Church, by the administration of any diving, as it is asserted by many Learned Persons of late Days; yet to prove that our Baptism is indeed an Image of Death, and Resurrection, not of washing, enough hath been said. Thus far Sir Norton Knatchbul.