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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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But certainly it must needs, as I said, reflect upon the Honour and Faithfulness of Christ, to conclude Infant-Baptism to be of God: for can any think the Lord Jesus would leave so great an Ordinance, or Sacrament, of the New Testament, so obscure and dark in his Sacred Word, had it been his Mind that Believers should baptize their Children, since the Apostle magnifies Christ's Faithfulness, who is the Son, above that of Moses, who was but the Servant? And Moses verily was faithful in all his House as a Servant, for a Testimony of those things which were to be spoken after, Hebr. 3. 5. But Christ as a Son over his own House, &c. ver. 6. and therefore was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, ver. 3.
Besides, do but consider what Darkness and Confusion the Asserters of Infant-Baptism seem to be in, about the Proof and Right they say Children have to it.
1. Some of them say, it depends wholly upon the Authority of the Church.
2. Others dare not baptize them, but as Believers and Disciples, and therefore affirm they have Faith, &c.