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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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Answer, Repentance, whereby they forsake Sin; and, Faith, whereby they steadfastly believe the Promise of God made to them in that Sacrament.
Answer, Repentance, whereby they forsake Sin; and, Faith, whereby they stedfastly believe the Promise of God made to them in that Sacrament.
If there be no Precedent in the Scripture, (as there is no Precept) that any besides such who professed Faith and Repentance,1 were baptized; then none but such ought to be baptized: but there is no Precedent that any besides such who professed Faith and Repentance were baptized; Ergo, none but such ought.
- 1Arg. III.
Had Infant-Baptism been any Appointment or Institution of Christ, we should certainly either have had Precept or Example in the Scripture to warrant the same; but in as much as the Holy Scripture is wholly silent therein, there being not one Example, or the least Syllable to be found for any such Practice, we may be sure it is none of Christ's Ordinance.