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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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Doth not our Blessed Saviour's Words immediately following fully answer this Objection,1 and, lo I am with you always to the end of the World? Has not Christ Power to preserve, protect, and uphold all such Persons which he commands to be Baptized? Nay, can we think Christ would institute an Ordinance to destroy the Lives of any Persons? Besides, we know he has preserved thousands in this cold Climate; nay, and never did I hear of any one Person that received the least Hurt or Damage by being Baptized according to the Commission of Christ; though some have gone into the Water in the time of the great Frost, and at other Times of bitter Frost and Snow; nay, and Persons very Aged, and of both Sexes, and some that have been very weak ⟨p. 67⟩and sickly—though our Adversaries have falsely reported to the contrary. But can they be so […] left to themselves, to think this will be a good […] for them, for changing this Ordinance of Jesus Christ, when he comes to call all Men to an account? certainly they will find themselves deceived.
Doth not our Blessed Saviour's Words immediately following fully answer this Objection,1 and, lo I am with you always to the end of the World? Has not Christ Power to preserve, protect, and uphold all such Persons which he commands to be Baptized? Nay, can we think Christ would institute an Ordinance to destroy the Lives of any Persons? Besides, we know he has preserved thousands in this cold Climate; nay, and never did I hear of any one Person that received the least Hurt or Damage by being Baptized according to the Commission of Christ; though some have gone into the Water in the time of the great Frost, and at other Times of bitter Frost and Snow; nay, and Persons very Aged, and of both Sexes, and some that have been very weak ⟨p. 67⟩and sickly—though our Adversaries have falsly reported to the contrary. But can they be so 〈…〉 left to themselves, to think this will be a good 〈…〉 for them, for changing this Ordinance of Jesus Christ, when he comes to call all Men to an account? certainly they will find themselves deceived.