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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 10: Wherein the great Arguments, and pretended Scripture-Proofs for Infant-Baptism, concern…
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Children of Believers are in Covenant,1 as well as their Parents. The Covenant made with Abraham was the Covenant of Grace, or Gospel-Covenant, to which the Seal of Circumcision was annexed; and as Circumcision belonged to the Children of the Faithful under the Law, so Baptism belongs to the Children of the Faithful under the Gospel, or else the Privileges under the Gospel would be less than those were under the Law.
Children of Believers are in Covenant,1 as well as their Parents. The Covenant made with Abraham was the Covenant of Grace, or Gospel-Covenant, to which the Seal of Circumcision was annexed; and as Circumcision belonged to the Children of the Faithful under the Law, so Baptism belongs to the Children of the Faithful under the Gospel, or else the Priviledges under the Gospel would be less than those were under the Law.
- 1I. Argument from the Covenant made with Abraham.
Answ. There hath been enough said, over and over, by Mr. Tombs, Mr. Danvers, and many others, to detect and utterly vanquish the weakness of this Argument.
As, first, it hath been proved, that the Covenant of Grace made with Abraham and his Seed, doth not intend his Carnal Seed according to the Flesh; but his Spiritual Seed, or such who had the Faith of Abraham. And one would think the Apostle might be believed in his expounding that ⟨p. 101⟩Text, viz. To Abraham and to his Seed were the Promises made,