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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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The second Household is that of Crispus, 1Acts 18. 8. And Crispus the chief Ruler of the Synagogue, believed in God with all his House: and many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed, and were baptized. All that is said of his Household, is, that they believed; besides, the scope of the Text shows, none were baptized, but such who first believed; and they, we say, and none but they, are true Subjects of Baptism, that believe.
The second Houshold is that of Crispus, 1Acts 18. 8. And Crispus the chief Ruler of the Synagogue, believed in God with all his House: and many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed, and were baptized. All that is said of his Houshold, is, that they believed; besides, the scope of the Text shews, none were baptized, but such who first believed; and they, we say, and none but they, are true Subjects of Baptism, that believe.
- 1The Second whole Household.The Second whole Houshold.
The third Household, is the Household of Stephanus; I baptized, 1saith Paul, the Household of Stephanus, 1 Cor. 1. 16. And, he saith, the House of Stephanus was the first Fruits of Achaia, and that they had addicted themselves to the Ministry of the Saints, which little Children were not capable to do, Chap. 16. 15.
The third Houshold, is the Houshold of Stephanus; I baptized,