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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 1: Wherein the Baptism of Water is proved to be that intended in the Commission, and so a…
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Peter, 1saith Cyprian, makes mention of Jesus Christ; not as if the Father were to be omitted, but that the Son might be joined to the Father, &c.
- 1Cyprian Epist. 73. ad Jubaian.
And St. Austin saith,1 They were commanded to be baptized in the Name of Christ; and tho the Father and Holy Ghost were not mentioned, yet we understand they were not otherwise baptized, than in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Why dost thou not apprehend, when it is said of the Son, All things were made by Him, that the Holy Ghost also, though not mentioned, is there likewise understood?
- 1Augustin. lib. 3. against Maxim. Bp. of the Arians, c. 17.Augustin. lib. 3. against Maxim. Bp. of the Arrians, c. 17.
To be baptized into Christ Jesus,1 (saith Eulogius) signifies, to be baptized according to the Precept of Christ, that is, into the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And that other [into his Death] is typically representing his Death in Baptism. The same Patriarch, in the same place, a little before saith thus, What is said in the Acts, of those that had received the Baptism of John, that they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus, denotes, that they were baptised according to the Institution and Doctrine of the Lord Jesus; that is to say, they were baptized into the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. For so the Lord Jesus Christ taught and commanded his Disciples to baptize,