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…

Name: Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…
Author: Benjamin Keach

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 ...

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London : 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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Object. But what hope can we have of our Infants if they must not be admitted unto Christian Baptism, nor reputed as Members of the common Body and Church of the Faithful?

:414p. 124

Answ. We answer; First, if the hope of the Parent for the Child's Salvation be grounded upon the Administration of an external Rite or Ordinance in Infancy, then neither had the Patriarchs for above two thousand Years any hope of their Children, sith they had neither Circumcision, Baptism, nor any other External Rite, which we find otherwise by Noah's Prophecy, Gen. 9. 26, 27.

:415p. 124

Secondly, We ask, whether God hath left it in the Power of the Parent to save or destroy the Soul of his Child, which your Doctrine doth import?

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Thirdly, We demand what hopes are intended, and by what Scriptures the same are annexed to the Administration of an Ordinance in Infancy?

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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…

CHAP. XI. Wherein many other pretended Scripture-Proofs and Arguments for the baptizing of Infants are answered, as that, Suffer little Children to come unto me, &c. and, Except a Man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, &c.

CHAP. XI. Wherein many other pretended Scripture-Poofs and Arguments for the baptizing of Infants are answered, as that, Suffer little Children to come unto me, &c. and, Except a Man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, &c.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. XI. Wherein many other pretended Scripture-Proofs and Arguments for the baptizing of Infants are answered, as that, Suffer little Children to come unto me, &c. and, Except a Man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, &c.

CHAP. XI. Wherein many other pretended Scripture-Poofs and Arguments for the baptizing of Infants are answered, as that, Suffer little Children to come unto me, &c. and, Except a Man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, &c.

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