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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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But there is not one hint, or the least colour of ground for the baptizing of Infants in all the New Testament, as hath been proved; and yet the Gospel is, as one observes, as express in the matter of Baptism, as first, touching the Subject Men and Woman: Secondly, As to the Time, viz. when they believe: Thirdly, As to the Qualifications of Baptism, i. e. Faith and Repentance: Fourthly, As to the end and use of it, to signify the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, with our Death unto Sin, and rising again to newness of Life. Can any think the Servant should be so careful to give Directions from God in every case about the circumcising of Children under the Law, and the Son of God not to be as express in all parts of instituted Worship and our Duties under the Gospel? This can't be thought; see what the Apostle saith, which we before hinted, Heb. 3. 5, 6.
But there is not one hint, or the least colour of ground for the baptizing of Infants in all the New Testament, as hath been proved; and yet the Gospel is, as one observes, as express in the matter of Baptism, as first, touching the Subject Men and Woman: Secondly, As to the Time, viz. when they believe: Thirdly, As to the Qualifications of Baptism, i. e. Faith and Repentance: Fourthly, As to the end and use of it, to signifie the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, with our Death unto Sin, and rising again to newness of Life. Can any think the Servant should be so careful to give Directions from God in every case about the circumcising of Children under the Law, and the Son of God not to be as express in all parts of instituted Worship and our Duties under the Gospel? This can't be thought; see what the Apostle saith, which we before hinted, Heb. 3. 5, 6.
Quest. But Children were Members of the Jewish Church as well as Adult Persons,1 sith Mr. Smithies, and so say other Pedo-Bap•isto, as […] Bater, and many more; and since they were comprehended with their Parents in that Church-state […] are so still under the Gospel, and therefore to […].