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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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3. Then Males only and no Females would have been baptized; because none but Male Children were to be circumcised, as God commanded.
4. Circumcision was administered on Abraham's natural Seed without any Profession of Faith; but none are to be admitted to Baptism but by a Profession of Faith, Repentance and Regeneration.
4. Circumcision was administred on Abraham's natural Seed without any Profession of Faith; but none are to be admitted to Baptism but by a Profession of Faith, Repentance and Regeneration.
The first Birth, or being born in a fleshly way by Carnal Generation, gave Abraham's natural Seed a Right to Circumcision; whereas the Spiritual Birth or Regeneration gives a Right only to Baptism according to Christ's Commission, as we have proved.
5. 'Tis evident Circumcision figured forth another thing, viz. the Destruction of the Body of Sin by Jesus Christ, and the Circumcision of the Heart, and therefore not Baptism, &c.