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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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First, 'Tis evident that Peter preached this Sermon to the Jews, and to many of them who had a hand in murdering the Lord of Life and Glory: And this he laid home, and pressed upon their Consciences very close; and they being pricked in their Hearts, cried out, Men and Brethren, what shall we do? If it be thus,1 we are lost Men and undone. No: as if Peter should say, Do not despair, upon your Repentance there is Mercy for you. Then said Peter unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you, for the Remission of Sins, ⟨p. 135⟩and ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit—For the Promise is unto you. Ay, this is good News indeed, they might say; But what will become of our Children, our Off-spring? for we have wished that his Blood might not only be upon our selves, but also upon our Children. Well, what tho? let not this terrify you, neither as to drive you into despair; for the Promise is not only to you who repent, &c. but to your Children, or Off-spring also; your Posterity shall not be lost, for the Promise is unto them as it is to you, viz. if they repent; and not only to them of your Race or Posterity, but also to all that are afar off, 2meaning the Gentiles, who were said to be sometimes afar off. But now if they would know who of their Children, and those who were afar off, the Promise was made unto: In the close of the Verse, he resolves them in these words, Even to as many as the Lord our God shall call.
First, 'Tis evident that Peter preach'd this Sermon to the Jews, and to many of them who had a hand in mur•hering the Lord of Life and Glory: And this he laid home, and prest upon their Consciences very close; and they being prick'd in their Hearts, cried out, Men and Brethren, what shall we do? If it be thus,1 we are lost Men and undone. No: as if Peter should say, Do not dispair, upon your Repentance there is Mercy for you. Then said Peter unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you, for the Remission of Sins, ⟨p. 135⟩