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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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Ambrose upon this place,1 saith, the Children are holy because they are born of lawful Marriage.
- 1Ambrose.
Melanchthon in his Commentary upon this same Text saith thus,1 Therefore Paul answers, that ⟨p. 140⟩their Marriages are not to be pulled asunder for their unlike Opinions of God; if the impious Person do not cast away the other; and for comfort he adds as a Reason, The unbelieving Husband is sanctified by the believing Wife. Meat is sanctified; for that which is holy in use, that is, it is granted to Believers from God; so here he speaks of the use of Marriage to be holy, and to be granted of God. Things prohibited under the Law, as Swines Flesh, and a Woman in her Pollution, were called unclean. The Connection of this, if the use of Marriage should not please God, your Children would be Bastards, and so unclean: But your Children are not Bastards, therefore the use of the Marriage pleaseth God: And how Bastards were unclean in a peculiar manner the Law shows, Deut. 23.
Melancthon in his Commentary upon this same Text saith thus,1 Therefore Paul answers, that ⟨p. 140⟩their Marriages are not to be pulled asunder for their unlike Opinions of God; if the impious Person do not cast away the other; and for comfort he adds as a Reason, The unbelieving Husband is sanctified by the believing Wife. Meat is sanctified; for that which is holy in use, that is, it is granted to Believers from God; so here he speaks of the use of Marriage to be holy, and to be granted of God. Things prohibited under the Law, as Swines Flesh, and a Woman in her Pollution, were called unclean. The Connexion of this, if the use of Marriage should not please God, your Children would be Bastards, and so unclean: But your Children are not Bastards, therefore the use of the Marriage pleaseth God: And how Bastards were unclean in a peculiar manner the Law shews,