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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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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.
4ly. To prove further, that the Right of Circumcision wholly depended upon the absolute Will, Pleasure, and Sovereignty of God, as Baptism now doth; and that his Will, and not ours, nor any Consequence that may be drawn from being in the Covenant, can give a Person a right thereto, without his Command or allowance; 'tis to be considered, that there were those commanded to be Circumcised, who were not (as there is probable ground to believe) in that holy and blessed Covenant of Grace, God said his Covenant should not be established with Ishmael, but with Isaac, yet he was Circumcised,