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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 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.
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That the Holy Scripture contains in it all things that are necessary for us to believe and practice in order to Eternal Life, is acknowledged by all worthy Men both Ancient and Modern; and that Infants Baptism is not contained in the holy Scripture we have proved.
That the Holy Scripture contains in it all things that are necessary for us to believe and practice in order to Eternal Life, is acknowledg'd by all worthy Men both Ancient and Modern; and that Infants Baptism is not contained in the holy Scripture we have proved.