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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 9: Containing several other Arguments, proving, why not Infants, but Believers only, are t…
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CHAP. IX. Containing several other Arguments, proving, why not Infants, but Believers only, are the true Subjects of Baptism.
IF there is no word of Institution,1 or any thing in the Commission of Christ for Baptizing Infants, but of Believers only, then not Infants but Believers only ought to be Baptized.
- 11. Argument.
But there is no word of Institution, or any thing in the Commission of Christ, for baptizing Infants, but of Believers only; Ergo, not Infants, but Believers only are the Subjects of Baptism.
The Major Proposition is undeniable: for if Infants may be baptized in the Name, &c. without any Authority from Christ, or word of Institution, or the least intimation of it in the great Commission, what Innovation can we keep out of the Church? This is enough to cause any Protestant to renounce his Religion, and cleave to the Romish Communion, who asserts the Church's Power is such, that without a word of Institution, she may do the Lord knows what.—Nor do they, as far as I can find, assert Infant-Baptism from the Authority of the Scripture; but from the Power Christ has left in the Church, in which they seem more