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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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Thirdly, There is another Typical or Metaphorical Baptism spoken of, viz. the Children of Israel, or the Fathers are said to be baptized to Moses in the Cloud, and in the Sea, 1 Cor. 10. Some have of late intimated, That the Rain that fell from the Cloud, sprinkled them as they past through the Sea, and from hence would have Baptism to be Sprinkling: Truly, if that was a Baptism, viz. it raining upon them, the People may save their Money, and never go to Priest •or Minister more to Christen their Children, for 'tis but to carry them abroad when it rains, and they will be so baptized; and it will be as true a Baptism, no doubt: for the using the Name of the Father, &c. doth not make Baptism, though true Baptism can't be warrantably administered without mentioning the Names of the Sacred Trinity. But we must conclude, there was something else than that which these Men suppose in ⟨p. 62⟩that Case, which caused the Apostle to say, Our Fathers were baptized unto Moses, in the Cloud, and in the Sea. It was doubtless a Type and plain Figure of Gospel-dipping, or burying in Water; for they were overwhelmed, 'tis evident, as it were, in the Cloud, and in the Sea.
Thirdly, There is another Typical or Metaphorical Baptism spoken of, viz. the Children of Israel, or the Fathers are said to be baptized to Moses in the Cloud, and in the Sea, 1 Cor. 10. Some have of late intimated, That the Rain that fell from the Cloud, sprinkled them as they past through the Sea, and from hence would have Baptism to be Sprinkling: Truly, if that was a Baptism, viz. it raining upon them, the People may save their Mony, and never go to Priest •or Minister more to Christen their Children, for 'tis but to carry them abroad when it rains, and they will be so baptized; and it will be as true a Baptism, no doubt: for the using the Name of the Father, &c. doth not make Baptism, though true Baptism cann't be warrantably administred without mentioning the Names of the Sacred Trinity. But we must conclude, there was something else than that which these Men suppose in ⟨p. 62⟩