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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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Answ. There is no ground so to believe, since the Scripture gives not the least hint of any such thing.
1. For first, if it had, then when Baptism came in and was in force, Circumcision must have ceased immediately: but after Baptism was commanded and administered, we find Circumcision in being, and was not disannulled till the Death and Resurrection of our Saviour. Now it would have vanished, as Shadows do, as soon as Baptism the Antitype came in force, had it been a Type or Figure of Baptism, or come in the room of it.
1. For first, if it had, then when Baptism came in and was in force, Circumcision must have ceased immediately: but after Baptism was commanded and administred, we find Circumcision in being, and was not disannull'd till the Death and Resurrection of our Saviour. Now it would have vanquish'd, as Shadows do, as soon as Baptism the Antitype came in force, had it been a Type or Figure of Baptism, or come in the room of it.
2. If Baptism had come in the room of Circumcision, then the Church of God under the Gospel would have been just like the National Church of the Jews, viz. made up of the Fleshly Seed;1 but the Apostle shows the contrary, it consists of lively Stones, that is, a spiritual and not a carnal Seed.
2. If Baptism had come in the room of Circumcision, then the Church of God under the Gospel would have been just like the National Church of the Jews, viz. made up of the Fleshly Seed;1 but the Apostle shews thè contrary, it consists of lively Stones, that is, a spiritual and not a carnal Seed.