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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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My Female children are in Covenant; and since the Covenant belongs to them, the Seal of the Covenant belongs to them, which is, Circumcision, therefore I will circumcise them also; would God have allowed him to do any such Act, think you? You will reply, I am sure that God would never have born with Abraham in doing any such thing, because he must have done it without a Command.
And, pray, how can you think he will bear with you in Baptizing Children of Believers, sith you have no more Command from God so to do, than Abraham had to Circumcise his Female Children?
You reply, They are in Covenant, and therefore to them belongs the Seal of the Covenant; even so say we, his Females might be in the same Covenant, and yet you would have condemned such an Act in him, though grounded upon the very same foot of an Account, which you stand upon your own Justification in, and acknowledge no Fault, but contrariwise blame, nay, reproach us for holding an Error, because we cannot do ⟨p. 104⟩and practice as you do in this case, without any Authority from God's Word.
You reply, They are in Covenant, and therefore to them belongs the Seal of the Covenant; even so say we, his Females might be in the same Covenant, and yet you would have condemned such an Act in him, though grounded upon the very same foot of an Account, which you stand upon your own Justification in, and acknowledg no Fault, but contrarywise blame, nay, reproach us for holding an Error, because we cannot do ⟨p. 104⟩and practice as you do in this case, without any Authority from God's Word.