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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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Yea these Matters, viz. Christ's Death, Burial, and Resurrection, are the cardinal or great Things to be considered; for as in the Lord's Supper remotely many Things may be signified to us, yet all the Things cannot plainly be represented to our Eyes; but such Things that are the more immediate Significations of it are the proper Cause of all the rest, viz. Christ Crucified, and our feeding on him by Faith, or the breaking of his Body, and the pouring forth of his Blood, are most lively set forth and represented to our visible sight: So in Baptism likewise, the main and more immediate Significations, which are the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of our Blessed Saviour, with our death unto Sin, and vivification to a new Life, is clearly resembled, though the Fruit of his Death, and Remission of Sin, and Purging, &c. are consequently gathered from it also.
Calvin saith,1 Baptismum esse sepulturam, in quum nulli msi jam mortui mortuo tradendi sunt; i. e. That Baptism is a form or way of Burial, and none but such as are already dead to Sin, or have repented from dead Works, are to be buried.
- 1Calvin. l. 4. c. 16.
Also Learned Zanchy, 1I find, writes thus on Col. 2. 12. Of Regeneration, saith he, there are two parts, Mortification and Vivification, that is called a Burial with Christ, this a Resurrection with Christ; the Sacrament of both these, saith he, is Baptism, in which we are overwhelmed or buried, and after that do come forth and rise again: It may not be said truly, but sacramentally, of all that are Baptized, that they are buried with Christ, and raised with him,