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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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Fourthly, This would render Grace to be a Birth-Privilege, as Mr. Danvers observes, and Regeneration tied to Generation, contrary to the Scripture and all good Doctrine; as if a Believer doth not only beget a Child in natural Generation, but a Saint also.
Fourthly, This would render Grace to be a Birth-Priviledg, as Mr. Danvers observes, and Regeneration tied to Generation, contrary to the Scripture and all good Doctrine; as if a Believer doth not only beget a Child in natural Generation, but a Saint also.
Fifthly, Then the Apostle spake not true in saving the Children of the Flesh, these are not the Children of God, i. e. of the Promise, Rom. 9.
Sixthly, And it also would follow, that all the whole Off-spring of Believers shall be saved, without you will assert the Doctrine of James Arminius, that there is a falling away from Grace.
Seventhly, And would it not follow also, that all the Children of Believers know God, and need not be taught,