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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 there be any thing needful to be known or not to be known, we shall learn it by the Holy Scriptures; if we shall need to reprove a Falsehood, we shall fetch it from thence; if to be corrected, to be chastened, to be exhorted, or comforted; to be short, if ought lack, that ought to be taught or learned, we shall also learn it out of the same Scriptures.
If there be any thing needful to be known or not to be known, we shall learn it by the Holy Scriptures; if we shall need to reprove a Falshood, we shall fetch it from thence; if to be corrected, to be chastened, to be exhorted, or comforted; to be short, if ought lack, that ought to be taught or learned, we shall also learn it out of the same Scriptures.
Augustin saith,1 Read the Holy Scriptures, wherein ye shall find fully what is to be followed, and what to be avoided.
- 1Aug. to the Brethren in the Wildern.
And again he saith,1 In these therefore, which are evidently contained in the Scriptures, are found all things which contain Faith, manner of living, Hope and Love.
- 1Lib. 2. of Christian Doctrine, c. 3.