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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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The Major Proposition cannot be denied, without a palpable violation of Christ's Precept, and by the same Rule that Infants may be baptized, notwithstanding this absolute prerequisite, Unbelievers may, invalidate the Rule of Christ, or render it defective, and you give all away to the Enemy. The Minor has been sufficiently proved.
If thou believest, thou mayest, else he might not;1 that it seems was absolutely necessary, Repent, and be baptized every one of you, Act. 2. 36, 37. and, those of the Church of England say the same thing.
If thou believest, thou may'st, else he might not;1 that it seems was absolutely necessary, Repent, and be baptized every one of you, Act. 2. 36, 37. and, those of the Church of England say the same thing.
- 1Acts 8.
In the Rubric, What is required of Persons that are to be baptized? that's the Question.
In the Rubrick, What is required of Persons that are to be baptized? that's the Question.