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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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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.
- 1Ambros. New Birth in p. 13.
Answ. There is no pretended Proof for Infant-Baptism brought by the Asserters of it, that I wonder at more than this, especially considering how fully and excellently they are detected by several able Men of their own Party, yet notwithstanding it seems to abide as a standing Doctrine in the National Church, as witness their Catechism—Baptism, wherein I was made a Member of Christ, a Child of God, and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. Pray see how excellently the late famous Stephen Charnock detects this Error;