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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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Thirdly, This Burial and Resurrection that is immediately expressed by these words, Buried with him in Baptism, wherein ye are also risen with him, is made a Motive, Argument, and Incitement to the spiritual Death and Resurrection; for therefore are we persuaded to die to Sin and live righteously, because in Baptism we are buried in Water, and raised again, in token that we ought so to do; and to this end are we baptized, and buried, and raised therein, and so interested into all the other Benefits of Christ's Death, Remission of Sins, and Salvation, viz. that we should die to Sin and live holily, and to the end also that we may thereby be put in mind so to do.
Thirdly, This Burial and Resurrection that is immediately expressed by these words, Buried with him in Baptism, wherein ye are also risen with him, is made a Motive, Argument, and Incitement to the spiritual Death and Resurrection; for therefore are we perswaded to die to Sin and live righteously, because in Baptism we are buried in Water, and raised again, in token that we ought so to do; and to this end are we baptized, and buried, and raised therein, and so interested into all the other Benefits of Christ's Death, Remission of Sins, and Salvation, viz. that we should die to Sin and live holily, and to the end also that we may thereby be put in mind so to do.
Now if this Death and Burial in Baptism be to this end, viz. to teach us, and show us how we must die to Sin: Then I infer two things,
Now if this Death and Burial in Baptism be to this end, viz. to teach us, and shew us how we must die to Sin: Then I infer two things,
First, That the burial in Baptism, here spoken of, is not the Death to Sin; for the Motive, and things we are moved to do, are two; and so are the Sign, and the Thing signified.