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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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and Circumcision ⟨p. 122⟩laid them under a Bond to do and keep all that God in his Law required, yea and under a Curse if they continued not in all things that were there enjoined, which brought them into miserable Bondage and Captivity; but now 'tis but to believe, and thou shalt be saved: the Spirit saith, the Scripture was not yet given—to wit, in that manner nor measure as afterwards,1 because Christ was not yet glorified.
and Circumcision ⟨p. 122⟩laid them under a Bond to do and keep all that God in his Law required, yea and under a Curse if they continued not in all things that were there injoyned, which brought them into miserable Bondage and Captivity; but now 'tis but to believe, and thou shalt be saved: the Spirit saith, the Scripture was not yet given—to wit, in that manner nor measure as afterwards,1 because Christ was not yet glorified.
So that it is no Absurdity to grant that the Jews might have Privileges in some things more than we; and yet our Case and Condition with our Children, to speak simply, better than theirs, tho the Covenant of Grace is not enlarged nor lessened in respect of the substance of it; the Promises of Grace are still belonging to the Elect, to those that were given to Christ, to Believers, and to no other, nor never were; but the Privileges we have above them do abundantly recompense the defect of those Privileges of theirs, whether real or supposed: And the truth is, Privileges are so arbitrary and various, depending so much upon the Sovereignty of God, that he gives them as he thinks good, and oft-times takes them away without assigning any special Reason of it; so that no Arguments can be drawn safely, as our Brethren do, viz. God gave such a Privilege to the Jews, therefore we must have such a Privilege too, except we can prove it is God's Will it should be so. This Argument therefore is of no force, without an Institution, here we are again, and here we will stand; Circumcision wholly depended upon a positive Law; 'tis in vain therefore to attempt to prove, that because the Jews had a Privilege to circumcise their Children, therefore we must have a Privilege to baptize