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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 1: Wherein the Baptism of Water is proved to be that intended in the Commission, and so a…
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May I not argue thus; If Teaching continues to the end of the World, Baptism continues? But Teaching none denies to continue, Ergo Baptism continues. Do but observe the conjunction between Teaching and Baptizing in the Commission, Go, teach all Nations, baptizing them; and again, teaching them, &c. Baptism is fenced in on both sides, 'tis secured, one would think, (as our Lord Jesus has placed it) from all Force and Violence whatsoever; and that such must be impudently bold as dare attempt to raze it out, or seek to disannul it, and make it of none effect.
May I not argue thus; If Teaching continues to the end of the World, Baptism continues? But Teaching none denies to continue, Ergo Baptism continues. Do but observe the conjunction between Teaching and Baptizing in the Commission, Go, teach all Nations, baptizing them; and again, teaching them, &c. Baptism is fenc'd in on both sides, 'tis secured, one would think, (as our Lord Jesus has placed it) from all Force and Violence whatsoever; and that such must be impudently bold as dare attempt to raze it out, or seek to disannul it, and make it of none effect.
Thirdly, The Promise that is subjoined in express words, in the Commission, clearly proves the continuation of this Ordinance; And lo, I am with you always to the end of the World; not to the end of that Age only as some affirm. See our late Annotators on these words,1 I am, and I will be with you; and those who succeed you in the Work of the Ministry, being called of me thereunto, I will be with you, protecting you in that Ordinance, and blessing you, and all other my faithful Ministers, that labour for making me and my Gospel known, with success to the end of the World; not of this Age only, but till the end of the World—or till the World shall be determined, and the New Heavens and the New Earth shall appear.
- 1Continuation of Pool's A•not. on •at. 28: 1, 20.