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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 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.
Secondly, From the manner of Baptizing in the Primitive Times.
Thirdly, From the Spiritual Signification of the Holy Ordinances of Baptism, together with the great Design and End of Christ in the Institution of it.
Fourthly and lastly, From the Typical and Metaphorical Baptisms we read of in the Scriptures. We shall now proceed to speak of the Persons who are the true Subjects of Baptism in the next place.