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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 11: Wherein many other pretended Scripture-Poofs and Arguments for the baptizing of Infants…
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A second Scripture brought formerly by Doctor Featly, and of late by divers others, is that in Joh. 3. 5. Except a Man be born again of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
Object. There is no other way to regenerate and save Infants but by this of Baptism, and so to add them to the Church, therefore they ought to be baptized.
In some,1 saith Mr. Isaac Ambrose, the new Birth is wrought before Baptism, as in the Eun••h, &c. ⟨p. 128⟩in others is the new Birth wrought in Baptism, […] indeed is the Sacrament of the new Birth, and Sea• of Regeneration, but howsoever in Pedo-Baptism, we see the outward Seal, yet we see not the manner of the inward working, for this also is the secret of the Spirit.
In some,1 saith Mr. Isaac Ambrose, the new Birth is wrought before Baptism, as in the Eun••h, &c. ⟨p. 128⟩in others is the new Birth wrought in Baptism, 〈…〉 indeed is the Sacrament of the new Birth, and Sea• of Regeneration, but howsoever in Pedo-Baptism, we see the outward Seal, yet we seel not the manner of the inward working, for this also is the secret of the Spirit.