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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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Thirdly, Prove that God has given Children the Denomination of Believers; or if it was granted he hath, would it therefore •ollow they may be baptized? certainly no, for we read of many who were said to believe*, they had some kind of Faith, and so in some sense had the denomination of […], and yet had no right ⟨p. 144⟩to Baptism, for such ought to have […] Faith, or to believe with all their Hearts, […] Philip said to the Eunuch, Act. 8. who are fit Subjects of that Ordinance, or have a sufficient Title to it: and would not that believing (in any sense) you speak of, that entitles them to Salvation, give them as good a right to the Lord's-Supper as to Baptism? Come, Sir, you can't infer a right to an Ordinance from what grounds you please. Baptism depends wholly, I say again, upon the Authority of a positive Law, and express words of Institution*; and none but such who are made Disciples by preaching, or who do actually believe, ought from thence to be baptized.
Thirdly, Prove that God has given Children the Denomination of Believers; or if it was granted he hath, would it therefore •ollow they may be baptized? certainly no, for we read of many who were said to believe*, they had some kind of Faith, and so in some sense had the denomination of 〈…〉, and yet had no right ⟨p. 144⟩to Baptism, for such ought to have 〈…〉 Faith, or to believe with all their Hearts, 〈…〉 Philip said to the Eunuch, Act. 8. who are fit Subjects of that Ordinance, or have a sufficient Title to it: and would not that believing (in any sense) you speak of, that entitles them to Salvation, give them as good a right to the Lord's-Supper as to Baptism? Come, Sir, you can't infer a right to an Ordinance from what grounds you please. Baptism depends wholly, I say again, upon the Authority of a positive Law, and express words of Institution