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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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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.
Very full and most excellently you have to this Point Dr. Taylor, 1who saith, That the Argument from Circumcision is invalid upon infinite Considerations: Figures and Types prove nothing, unless a Command go along with them, or some Express to signify such to be their purpose; for the Deluge of Waters, and the Ark of Noah were a Figure of Baptism, said Peter; and if therefore the Circumstances of the one should be drawn to the other, we should make Baptism a Prodigy rather than a Rite. The Paschal Lamb was a Type of the Eucharist, which succeeds the other, as Baptism doth to Circumcision; but because there was in the Manducation of the Paschal Lamb, no Prescription of Sacramental Drink, shall we thence conclude that the Eucharist is to be administered but in one kind? And even in the very instance of this Argument, supposing a Correspondency of the Analogy between Circumcision and Baptism, yet there is no Correspondency of Identity; for although it were granted, that both of them did consign the Covenant of Faith, yet there is nothing in the Circumstance of Children's being circumcised that so concerns that Mystery, but that it might very well be given to Children, and yet Baptism only to Men of Reason, because Circumcision lest a Character in the Flesh, which being imprinted upon Infants did its work to them when they came to Age; and such a Character was necessary, because there was no ⟨p. 111⟩