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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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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, Luke 7. 30. and so do all wicked and ungodly Men, who refuse to take God's Counsel, or to obey his Command. Now Baptism is that part of God's Counsel which the Pharisees rejected against themselves. Moreover in Chap. 19. it appears he opened and explained that great Ordinance to those Christians at Ephesus, at the first Plantation of the Church there, but not a word of their Duty to baptize their Infants; nor was there any reason he should, it being none of God's Counsel.
- 1Pool's Annotat. on Act. 20. 27.
If whatsoever is necessary to Faith or Practice,1 is left in the written Word, or made known to us in the Holy Scripture, that being a complete and perfect Rule, and yet Infant-Baptism is not contained or left therein, then Infant-Baptism is not of God. But whatsoever is necessary to Faith or Practice, is left in the written Word, or made known to us in the Holy Scripture, &c. and yet Infant-Baptism is not contained therein. Ergo, Infant-Baptism is not of God.
If whatsoever is necessary to Faith or Practice,1 is left in the written Word, or made known to us in the Holy Scripture, that being a compleat and perfect Rule, and yet Infant-Baptism is not contained or left therein, then Infant-Baptism is not of God. But whatsoever is necessary to Faith or Practice, is left in the written Word, or made known to us in the Holy Scripture, &c. and yet Infant-Baptism is not contained therein. Ergo, Infant-Baptism is not of God.