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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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And we must give our late Annotators their due at this turn also,1 for they speak much the sense of the Spirit of God in that place; pray take their own words, after they have given the sense of divers Learned Men upon the Text; this they fix upon us to be most probably the meaning of the Scripture; Others, say they, most probably think, that the Apostle maketh use of this term, in regard of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism, (as it was then used) the Persons going down into the Waters, being dipped in them; and the Israelites going down into the Sea, the great Receptacle of Water, though the Waters at that time were gathered on heaps on either side of them; yet they seemed buried in the Waters, as Persons in that Age were when they were baptized.—A very plain Figure doubtless, they having the Water on each side of them; and to which they might have added, the Watery Cloud over them, whether it broke down upon them or no, they were, as it were, buried in the Cloud and in the Sea; so that this Notion of Typical Baptism makes nothing for Sprinkling.
- 1See Continuation of Mr. Pool's Annotat. on 1 Cor. 10. 1, 2.
And thus we hope we have fully evinced, and clearly proved, to all unbiased Men, what Baptism is you have heard.
And thus we hope we have fully evinced, and clearly proved, to all unbyass'd Men, what Baptism is you have heard.
First, It is immerging, or dipping into the Water, from the proper, literal, and genuine signification of the word Baptizo.