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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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Object. Whole Households we read were baptized, therefore some Children were in the Primitive Time baptized.
Object. Whole Housholds we read were baptized, therefore some Children were in the Primitive Time baptized.
Answ. To which we answer, that the Consequence is not natural from the Antecedent, unless you can prove there were no whole Households but in which were some little Babes; make that appear, and this is the best Argument you can bring.—But the contrary is very evident; for how many hundred Households or Families are there in this City in which there are no little Children, but all Adult Persons? which being so▪ how uncertain is your Inference?
Answ. To which we answer, that the Consequence is not natural from the Antecedent, unless you can prove there were no whole Housholds but in which were some little Babes; make that appear, and this is the best Argument you can bring.—But the contrary is very evident; for how many hundred Housholds or Families are there in this City in which there are no little Children, but all Adult Persons? which being so▪ how uncertain is your Inference?
Secondly, But suppose there were Children in those Households (for usually in Scripture by a Figure which is called Synecdoche) the whole is put for part, or a part for the whole.
Secondly, But suppose there were Children in those Housholds (for usually in Scripture by a Figure which is called Syn••doche) the whole is put for part, or a part for the whole.