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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 5: Proving Baptism to be Immerging or Dipping, from those Typical and Metaphorical Baptism…
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1. We read of the Baptism of Afflictions or Sufferings,1 Mat. 20. 22, 23. Mark 10. 38. Luk. 12. 50. I have a Baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! From the literal Signification of the word Baptizo, viz. drown, immerge, plunge under, overwhelm, great Afflictions come to be called Baptism, and signifies, as Vo•lius shows, not every light Affliction, but that which is vehement and overwhelming, as there are Waves of Persecution and Tribulation mentioned in Scripture; so such as are drowned and overwhelmed by them may seem in a mystical way to be baptized; the reason of the Metaphor is taken from many deep Waters to which Calamities are compared; He drew me out of great Waters, saith David, Psal. 32. 6. I am come into deep Waters where the Floods overflow me, Psal. 69. 1, 2. and hence great Afflictions are called Waves, or compared to the Waves of the Sea that overflow, T•y Waves and thy Billows are gone over me, Psal. 42. 7. Christ spake of his Suffering, who was as it were ⟨p. 57⟩drowned, or drenched, or overwhelmed in Misery, no part free: every Suffering is not the Baptism of Suffering, but great and deep Afflictions, suffering unto Blood and Death, in opposition to a lesser degree or measure of them, being dipped and plunged into Afflictions.
1. We read of the Baptism of Afflictions or Sufferings,1 Mat. 20. 22, 23.