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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 fourth Household is that of Lydia, 1Acts 16. 14, 15. Whether this good Woman was a Maid, Widow, or Wife, is uncertain: If she had been a married Woman, 'tis much there is no mention made of her Husband: Besides, she is reckoned the Head of the Family [her] Household; which would not have been, saith Mr. Gosnold, if at this time she had a Husband. Grant, saith he, she were a Widow, yet she might have no Children; or if any, they might be grown up; and to such Children we deny not Baptism upon profession of Faith. Besides, she was at ⟨p. 134⟩this time from her own Dwelling, and that many miles distant, for she was of the City of Thyatira; but now was at the City of Philippi, where she was a merchandizing, being a seller of Purple. Grant she had Children, how unlikely a matter is it, saith he, that she should carry them about with her, trading so many miles distant? But, finally, to resolve the Doubt, the last Verse of this Chapter, calls them of the House of Lydia Brethren; They entered into the House of Lydia; and when they had […] the Brethren, they comforted them, and departed. Who now can conclude rationally, that any Children were in any of these Households? 'Tis a ha•d case Men are forced to fly to such weak and unlikely grounds to prove their practice; but as the Proverb goes, A poor Shift is better than none at all.
The fourth Houshold is that of Lydia, 1Acts 16. 14, 15. Whether this good Woman was a Maid, Widow, or Wife, is uncertain: If she had been a married Woman, 'tis much there is no mention made of her Husband: Besides, she is reckon'd the Head of the Family [her] Houshold; which would not have been, saith Mr. Gosnold, if at this time she had a Husband. Grant, saith he, she were a Widow, yet she might have no Children; or if any, they might be grown up; and to such Children we deny not Baptism upon profession of Faith. Besides, she was at ⟨p. 134⟩this time from her own Dwelling, and that many miles distant, for she was of the City of Thyatira; but now was at the City of Philippi, where she was a merchandizing, being a seller of Purple. Grant she had Children, how unlikely a matter is it, saith he, that she should carry them about with her, trading so many miles distant? But, finally, to resolve the Doubt, the last Verse of this Chapter, calls them of the House of Lydia Brethren; They entred into the House of Lydia; and when they had the Brethren, they comforted them, and departed. Who now can conclude rationally, that any Children were in any of these Housholds? 'Tis a had case Men are forc'd to fly to such weak and unlikely grounds to prove their practice; but as the Proverb goes, A poor Shift is better than none at all.