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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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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.
Hence we read Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the Regions about Jordan went out to be baptized of John; that is, many of those places in Jerusalem, Judea, and in those Regions.
Hence we read Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the Regions about •ordan went out to be baptized of John; that is, many of those places in Jerusalem, Judea, and in those Regions.
So 'tis said, 1 Sam. 1. 21, 22, 23. That Elkanah, and all his House went up to offer unto the Lord yearly Sacrifice, &c. yet, vers. 22. 'tis as expressly said, that Hannah and her Child went not up, who were part of his House, yet 'tis said all his House (or Household) went up. Exod. 9. 6. 'tis said, All the Cattle of Egypt died, that is, all that were in the Field, see Chap. 14. 26, 28. and chap. 9. 26. I could give you many other Examples of the same nature wherein the whole is taken but for part; And from hence 'tis that Dr. Hammond grants, that no concluding Argument can be deduced from the baptizing whole Households, to baptize Children; and therefore, in his Judgment, Arguments drawn from hence are better waived, than made use of by the Defenders of Infant-baptism. And certainly the Doctor judges but rationally therein (saith a worthy and Learned Man) because a clear Word of Institution (or plain Precedents) ought to be the ground of the practice of all Gospel-Ordinances, especially in the case of Baptism, one of the great Sacraments of the New Testaments.