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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 Magdeburgenses, 1as I find them quoted by Mr. Danvers, do say, that concerning the baptizing of the Adult, both Jews and Gentiles, we have sufficient Proof from the 2d, 8th, 10th, and 16th Chapters of the Acts; but as to the baptizing of Infants they can meet with no Example in Scripture.
- 1Magdeb. in Cent. 1. l. 2. p. 496.
Dr. Taylor saith,1 It is against the perpetual Analogy of Christ's Doctrine to baptize Infants; for besides that, Christ never gave any Precept to baptize them, nor ever himself, nor his Apostles (that appears) did baptize any of them: All that either he or his Apostles said concerning it, requires such previous Dispositions to Baptism, of which Infants are not capable, and those are Faith and Repentance. And not to instance in those innumerable places that require Faith before Baptism there needs no more but this one of ⟨p. 92⟩our blessed Saviour: He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that believeth not, shall be condemned: plainly thus Faith and Baptism will bring a Man to Heaven; but if he hath no Faith, Baptism shall do him no good: so that if Baptism, saith he, be necessary, so is Faith much more; for the want of Faith damns absolutely, it is not said so of the want of Baptism.
- 1Lib. Proph. p. 239.
If Paul declared the whole Counsel of God unto the Churches and Primitive Christians,