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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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Mr. Wilson on the Baptism of Affliction renders it to plunge into Afflictions or Dangers as it were, saith he, into deep Waters; so that it appears also from this Metaphorical Notion of Baptism, to baptize is to dip, or overwhelm, or cover the Body in Water.1 See what our last and best Annotators positively affirm on Matth. 20. 22. To be baptized, is to be dipped in Water, say they, Metaphorically; to be plunged in Afflictions. I am, saith Christ, to be baptized with Blood, overwhelmed with Sufferings and Afflictions; are you able so to be? &c.
Mr. Wilson on the Baptism of Affliction renders it to plunge into Afflictions or Dangers as it were, saith he, into deep Waters; so that it appears also from this Metaphorical Notion of Baptism, to baptize is to dip, or overwhelm, or cover the Body in Water.1 See what our last and best Annotators positively affirm on Matth. 20. 22. To be baptized, is to be dipped in Water, say they, Metaphorically; to be plunged in A•flictions. I am, saith Christ, to be baptized with Blood, overwhelmed with Sufferings and Afflictions; are you able so to be? &c.
- 1See Continuation of Mr. Pool's Annotat. on Mat. 20. 22▪
2. We read of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire:1 I indeed baptize you with Water, saith John, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with Fire. Now the Question is, What we are to understand to be meant by the Baptism of the Holy Ghost? whether the sanctifying Gifts and Graces of the Spirit are intended hereby, which all the Godly receive? or those extraordinary Gifts or miraculous Effusions of the Holy Ghost only, which many received in the Primitive Times?