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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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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, ⟨p. 53⟩but only of such as have true Faith.
- 1Zanchy.
Now we may appeal to all the World, whether Zanchy doth not clearly and evidently testify the same thing which we assert, viz. that Baptism is and can be no other than Immersion, or Dipping, sith Sprinkling, all must confess, doth not represent, in a lively Figure, the Burial and Resurrection of Christ, nor our dying, or being dead to Sin, and Vivification to Newness of Life, saith he, Sacramentally, i. e. Analogically; and in respect of the near Resemblance, yet truly to be buried with, and raised with Christ. This, we say, cannot be said of them that are sprinkled only; for if in respect of Mortification, and Vivification, they may be denominated, buried, and raised with Christ, yet that outward Rite and Ceremony cannot of it self denominate them so much as Sacramentally buried and raised with Christ, for there is not so much as any likeness of such Things in it. But in true Baptism, viz total dipping the Body in Water, and raising it again, it is in a lively Figure held forth to our sight.