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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, 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.
Secondly, That Infants are not capable Subjects of Baptism: for this Sacrament calls for Understanding, and Judgment, and Senses to be exercised in all that partake thereof, or else the whole work will be altogether insignificant. Therefore, saith one, to carry a poor Babe to Baptism, is as much as to carry it to hear a Sermon.—A Sign,1 as Pareus observeth, is ⟨p. 81⟩some outward thing appearing to the Sense, through, which some inward thing is at the same time apprehended by the Understanding.
- 1Pareus.
Therefore, saith Mr. Perkins, 1the preaching of the Word, and the administration of Sacraments are all one in substance; for in the one the Witness of God is seen, and in the other heard.
- 1Perkins Case of Consc. p. 177.