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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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To the same effect,1 saith another, as is noted in our Book of Metaphors, Baptism is put for the miraculous Effusion of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, and other Believers in the Primitive Church, because of the Analogical Immersion or Dipping, for so Baptizo signifies; for the House where the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles was so filled that they were (as it were) drowned in it; or the reason of the Metaphor saith he may be from the great plenty and abundance of those Gifts in which they were wholly immerged, as the Baptized are dipped under Water.
To the same effect,1 saith another, as is noted in our Book of Metaphors, Baptism is put for the miraculous Effusion of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, and other Believers in the Primitive Church, because of the Analogical Immersion or Dipping, for so Baptizo signifies; for the House where the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles was so filled that they were (as it were) drowned in it; or the reason of the Metaphor saith he may be from the great plenty and abundance of those Gifts in which they were wholly immerg'd, as the Baptized are dipp'd under Water.
- 1See Key to open Script. Metaphors, lib. 4. p. 36.
And it appears by what Mr. Del•un hath written and translated out of Tropical Writers,1 that Glassius and others assert the same things.
- 1Philologia Sacra, p. 190.