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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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Moreover Chrysostom saith that the old Man is buried and drowned in the Immersion under Water;1 and when the Baptized Person is afterwards raised up from the Water, it represents the Resurrection of the new Man to newness of Life, and therefore concludes (saith my Author) that the contrary Custom, being not only against Ecclesiastical Law, but against the Analogy and Mystical Signification of the Sacrament, it is not to be complied with.
- 1Chrysostom.
It has been too long, God grant Men Light to see their Error, and do so no more.1
- 1Prim. Christianity, p. 320.
Also Dr. Cave saith that the Party baptized was wholly immerged, or put under the Water, ⟨p. 54⟩which was the almost constant and universal Custom of those Times, whereby they did most notably and significantly express the great Ends and Effects of Baptism; for, as in immerging there are in a manner three several Acts, the putting the Person into the Water, his abiding under the Water, and his rising up again, thereby representing Christ's Death, Burial, and Resurrection; and in our Conformity thereunto, our dying to Sin, the destruction of its Power, and our Resurrection to a new course of Life. By the Person's being put into the Water, was lively represented the putting off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh, &c. by his being under it, which is a kind of Burial into Water, his entering into a state of Death, or Mortification, like as Christ remained for some time under the State or Power of Death; therefore it is said, as many as are baptized into Christ, are baptized into his Death, &c. And then, by his Emersion, or rising up out of the Water, is signified his entering upon the new course of Life; that like as Christ was raised by the Glory of the Father, so we should wal in newness of Life.