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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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Answ. Sirs, wherefore do you judg it reasonable, and not necessary? Is it not necessary for you to do what Christ hath commanded, and when at no time there is any danger of the Lives of Persons? If you will follow your Master's Command, and only Baptize such who are made Disciples, viz. believing Men and Women; is it not necessary for you to do Christ's Work, as Christ has required? Is it necessary you should alter any of his Holy Laws, and make void one of the great Sacraments of the New Testament by your Traditions? I pray, my dear Brethren, consider more seriously of it.
From hence it is evident, that those who ought to be Baptized, are Disciples, and none else; and that a Disciple is one that is a Believer, one that is taught, or has learned of Christ; The Disciples were first called Christians in Antioch,1 Acts 11. 26. Not only, say our Annotators, as Scholars were called amongst the Greeks from their Masters, viz. Platonists, Pythagoreans, to teach us whom we profess to learn of, and be instructed by, but to mind us of our Unction, for Christians are Anointed ones, 1 John 2. 2•. Such Disciples are the true Subjects of Baptism.
From hence it is evident, that those who ought to be Baptized, are Disciples, and none else; and that a Disciple is one that is a Believer, one that is taught, or has learned of Christ; The Disciples were first called Christians in Antioch,1 Acts 11. 26. Not only, say our Annotators, as Scholars were called amongst the Greeks from their Masters, viz. Platonists, Pythagor•ans, to teach us whom we profess to learn of, and be instructed by, but to mind us of our Unction, for Christians are Anointed ones,