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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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4. Others say, they have a Right by the Faith of their Parents: some are for baptizing all Children, others none but the Children of Believers.
5. One says, if either of their Parents are Believers they may be baptized; some say both Father and Mother, both must be godly Persons and in the Covenant of Grace, or else the Child has no Right to be baptized. No marvel when Men have lost their way, they are thus lost in a Wilderness.
That Ordinance God has made no Promise to Persons in their Obedience thereto,1 nor denounced any Threatening or Punishment on such who slight, neglect, and contemn it, it is no Ordinance of God. But God has made no Promise to Persons who baptize their Children, nor denounced no Threatening or Punishment on those who slight, neglect and contemn it. Ergo, Infant-Baptism is no Ordinance of God.
That Ordinancé God has made no Promise to Persons in their Obedience thereto,1 nor denounced any Threatning or Punishment on such who slight, neglect, and contemn it, it is no Ordinance of God. But God has made no Promise to Persons who baptize their Children, nor denounced no Threatning or Panishment on those who slight, neglect and contemn it. Ergo, Infant-Baptism is no Ordinance of God.
- 1Arg. VIII.