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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 8: Proving Believers the only true Subjects of Baptism from the special ends of this holy…
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First of all, it was ordained to be a Sign […] the Baptized of some inward […] viz. of the Person's Death unto […] to a new Life buried with […] i. e. Christ doth certainly […] •mmediately (if not wholly) in […] Scripture to that outward Sign […] that in which there is a plain Representation of the Mystery and inward Grace, we are said to be buried and risen both in Signification, and also in lively Representation of the inward and spiritual Burial and Resurrection with Christ.
First of all, it was ordained to be a Sign 〈…〉 the Baptized of some inward 〈…〉 viz. of the Person's Death unto 〈…〉 to a new Life buried with 〈…〉 i. e. Christ doth certainly 〈…〉 •mmediately (if not wholly) in 〈…〉 Scripture to that outward Sign 〈…〉 that in which there is a plain Representation of the Mystery and inward Grace, we are said to be buried and risen both in Signification, and also in lively Representation of the inward and spiritual Burial and Resurrection with Christ.
Secondly, Here is mention made of the Sign, and of the Thing signified. And as for that which is spoken of under this Expression, Buried in Baptism, 'tis delivered as a Medium (saith one) whereby, as a Motive whereunto, and as a Reason wherefore, as an Image and Representation, wherein we are both to read,1 and remember, and also practise and perform that other; for, do but mark, how shall we that are dead to Sin, (i. e. should be) live any longer therein? Know ye not, that as many of you as were baptized into Christ, i. e. into, or in token of an Interest in him, and of a Oneness and Fellowship with him by Faith, are baptized into his Death? i.e. in token of such a Communion with the Power of his Death, as to kill Sin, and crucify the old Man, so that henceforth we should not serve Sin? therefore hence it is, saith he, that in Baptism, (i. e. the outward Sacrament) we are buried with him, i. e. outwardly, visibly, bodily in Water into his Death, i. e. in token and resemblance of our dying unto Sin by virtue of his Death? That we should be ever practically mindful of this, That like as Christ rose again