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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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And lastly, to close with this Argument, take what Mr. Ball saith,1 We must for every Ordinance look to the Institution (saith he) and neither stretch it wider, nor draw it narrower than the Lord hath made it; for he is the Institutor of the Sacraments, according to his own pleasure, and 'tis our part to learn of him both to whom, how, and for what end the Sacraments are to be administered; in all which we must affirm nothing but what God hath taught us, and as he taught us. If this worthy Man speak Truth, as be sure he did, and his Doctrine be embraced, certainly our Brethren must never sprinkle, nay baptize, one Child any more.
And lastly, to close with this Argument, take what Mr. Ball saith,1 We must for every Ordinance look to the Institution (saith he) and neither stretch it wider, nor draw it narrower than the Lord hath made it; for he is the Institutor of the Sacraments, according to his own pleasure, and 'tis our part to learn of him both to whom, how, and for what end the Sacraments are to be administred; in all which we must affirm nothing but what God hath taught us, and as he taught us. If this worthy Man speak Truth, as be sure he did, and his Doctrine be imbraced, certainly our Brethren must never sprinkle, nay baptize, one Child any more.
- 1Mr. Ball in his Answer to the New-England Elders, p. 38, 39.
If no Man or Woman at any time or times were by the Almighty God,1 Jesus Christ, nor his Apostles neither commended for baptizing any one Child or Children, nor reproved for neglecting to baptize such; then Infants Baptism is not of, nor from God.
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