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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 6: Proving Believers, or Adult Persons, only to be the Subjects of Baptism, from Christ's…
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CHAP. VI. Proving Believers, or Adult Persons, only to be the Subjects of Baptism, from Christ's great Commission, Mat. 28.
WE having clearly evinced and proved what Baptism is, and that Rantism is not the Ordinance, 'tis clearly another Act; nor is Baptism any other thing than Immerging, Dipping, or Plunging the Body all over in Water: And this being so, we may from the whole infer, that all those who have been only sprinkled, whether as Children, or Adult, are all Unbaptized Persons, and will certainly be so found in the Day of the Lord; let their Teachers affirm or say what they will for their calling it Baptism, does not make it to be so: for suppose the Jews, or the Off-spring of Abraham, to whom God commanded Circumcision, instead of doing that Act, should have devised some other Thing in the ⟨p. 64⟩room of it, as the pairing off the Nails of their Children at eight days old, and have given that Act the name of Circumcision, would that have made it Circumcision? And truly, they might have as good a Plea, no doubt, for such an Invention, considering how dangerous and grievous a thing Circumcision was to little Children, as the first Inventers of Sprinkling a little Water on the Face of a Babe could pretend unto, in changing Baptism into Rantism.
Now, in the next place it behoveth us to enquire, who or what kind of Persons they are, that our Lord Jesus Christ hath required to be baptized; and there is no better way certainly to know this, than to go to the great Commission,