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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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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 […] Ba•ter, and many more; and since they were comprehended with their Parents in that Church-state […] are so still▪ under the Gospel, and therefore to […].
Quest. But Children were Members of the Jewish Church as well as Adult Persons,1 sith Mr. Smythies, and so say other Pedo-Bap•isto, as 〈…〉 Ba•ter, and many more; and since they were comprehended with their Parents in that Church-state 〈…〉 are so still▪ under the Gospel, and therefore to 〈…〉.
- 1Mr. Smithies Unworthy Communicant, p. 88.Mr. Smythies Vnworthy Communicant, p. 88.
Answ. That Children were then admitted Members of the Jewish Church is granted, and 'tis as evident that God hath now quite pulled down that House of his, (I mean that National Church-state) and broke up House-keeping, and turned the Bond-Woman and her Son, (i. e. the Fleshly Seed, Servants and Infants) all out of doors; the natural Branches are broken off, and God hath now built him a new, a glorious, and more spiritual House, into which he admitteth none as his Household-Servants to dwell in his Spiritual Family, but Believers only, or such as profess so to be: