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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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Our late Annotators agree directly with these; nay, Dr. Owen saith, 1that the Father of Lies himself could not well have invented a more pernicious Opinion, or which might pour in a more deadly Poison into the Minds of Sinners.2
Our late Annotators agree directly with these; nay, Dr. Owen saith, 1that the Father of Lies himself could not well have invented a more pernicious Opinion, or which might pour in a more deadly Poyson into the Minds of Sinners.2
- 1Pool's Annotat. on Joh. 3. 5.
- 2Dr. Owen in his Theol. l. 6. c. 5. p. 477.
If Baptism were meant here, then no Man can be saved without being baptized.
But none does the business better than the Learned Bishop Taylor; For,1 saith he, the Water and Spirit in this place, signifies the same thing; and by Water is meant the Effects of the Spirit cleansing and purifying the Soul, as it appears in its parallel place, Christ's ⟨p. 130⟩