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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 12: Containing an Answer to several other Arguments brought for Infant-Baptism.
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Young Children,1 saith Luther, hear not, nor understand the Word of God, out of which ⟨p. 151⟩Faith cometh; and therefore if the Commandment be followed, Children ought not to be baptized.
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Besides, they might be Children able to receive Instruction as far as you know, for such we take some times up into our Arms.1 Tertullian, speaking of this place, saith, Indeed the Lord said, do not ye hinder them to come unto me, let them come therefore, while they grow to Years, let them come while they learn, and while come, let them be taught; let them become Christians, when they are able to know Christ: Why doth innocent Age hasten to the Remission of Sins? Men will deal more warily in Worldly Affairs; so that they who are not trusted with an Earthly Inheritance are trusted with an Heavenly one; let them ask for Salvation that thou mayst appear to have given it to him. See our further Answer to this Text, Coap. 9.
Besides, they might be Children able to receive Instruction as far as you know, for such we take some times up into our Arms.1 Tertulllan, speaking of this place, saith, Indeed the Lord said, do not ye hinder them to come unto me, let them come therefore, while they grow to Years, let them come while they learn, and while come, let them be taught; let them become Christians, when they are able to know Christ: Why doth innocent Age hasten to the Remission of Sins? Men will deal more wrily in Worldly Assairs; so that they who are not trusted with an Earthly Inheritance are trusted with an Heavenly one; let them ask for Salvation that thou mayst appear to have given it to him. See our further Answer to this Text, Coap. 9.