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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 7: Proving Believers to be the only true Subjects of Baptism, from the Apostles Doctrine,…
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But, 2. Had not the Gospel-Church in that Age the extraordinary Apostles with it, like to whom never any rose after to succeed them; nay such who were conversant with the Lord Jesus after he rose from the Dead,1 and spake ⟨p. 76⟩to him mouth to mouth,2 and did eat and drink with them? as Peter saith, Acts 10.
3. Had not the Church then extraordinary Gifts, nay, such an infallible Spirit and Presence of Christ with her, that her Sons could clearly discern Spirits, and know when they speak, and when the Spirit spake in them? Now speak I, not the Lord.
4. Was not that Church set up to be a Pattern, or perfect Copy, after which all succeeding Churches were to write? can we think that others ever attained to the like, much less to greater Light and Knowledge than they? These things considered, fully show the folly and weakness of this Assertion and Objection.
4. Was not that Church set up to be a Patern, or perfect Copy, after which all succeeding Churches were to write? can we think that others ever attained to the like, much less to greater Light and Knowledg than they? These things considered, fully shew the folly and weakness of this Assertion and Objection.