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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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If Paul declared the whole Counsel of God unto the Churches and Primitive Christians,1 and yet never declared or made known to them Infants Baptism. Then Infants Baptism is none of the Counsel of God. But Paul did declare unto the Churches and Primitive Christians the whole Counsel of God, but never declared any thing to them of Infants Baptism. Ergo.
- 1Arg. IV.
The Major Proposition can't fairly be denied: and as to the Minor, see Acts 20. 27. For I have not shunned, saith he, to declare unto you all the Counsel of God. It appears by the Context, that he concluded he could not be pure from the Blood of all Men, if he had not been faithful in this matter, i. e. in making known all the whole Will of God to them. Paul was the great Apostle of the Gentiles, and he spake these words to a Gentile Church, viz. the Church at Ephesus, and therefore it is the more remarkable, God hath by his Mouth made known all things that are necessary for us to know or understand of his Counsel, or our Duty. See our late Annotators on this Verse.
God's Decree to save all that believe in Christ,1 or the whole Doctrine of Christianity, as it directs to an holy Life; whatsoever▪ God ⟨p. 93⟩requires of any one in order to a blessed Eternity: this is that which (say they) the Pharisees rejected,