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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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Could the Apostle in plainer words have detected the Error of these Men, if he had met with them in his day? 'Tis true, he did meet with some, viz. the Jews, or Abraham's natural Seed, who were so blind as thus to argue from the Covenant made with Abraham; and concluded, they were the true Seed and Children of God, because they were the Off-spring of Abraham according to the Flesh. But as John Baptist first endeavoured to undeceive them, when he saw the Scribes and Pharisees coming to his Baptism—by saying,1 Think not to say with in your selves, ye have Abraham to your Father, &c. So in the next place, our Blessed Saviour himself, in John. 8. likewise showed them their great Error and Mistake herein, and that they might be the Children of the Devil, notwithstanding they were the Seed of Abraham according to the Flesh, and thought themselves safe as being in that Covenant made with him.
Could the Apostle in plainer words have detected the Error of these Men, if he had met with them in his day? 'Tis true, he did meet with some, viz. the Jews, or Abraham's natural Seed, who were so blind as thus to argue from the Covenant made with Abraham; and concluded, they were the true Seed and Children of God, because they were the Off-spring of Abraham according to the Flesh. But as John Baptist first endeavoured to undeceive them, when he saw the Scribes and Pharisees coming to his Baptism—by saying,1 Think not to say with in your selves, ye have Abraham to your Father, &c. So in the next place, our Blessed Saviour himself, in John. 8. likewise shewed them their great Error and Mistake herein, and that they might be the Children of the Devil, notwithstanding they were the Seed of Abraham according to the Flesh, and thought themselves safe as being in that Covenant made with him.