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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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Object. 4. But Infants were commonly baptized before. How can we, saith Mr. Smithies, imagine that our Saviour sent to baptize Nations in which Infants before had commonly been baptized, and yet intend they should be excluded?
Object. 4. But Infants were commonly baptized before. How can we, saith Mr. Smythies, imagine that our Saviour sent to baptize Nations in which Infants before had commonly been baptized, and yet intend they should be excluded?
Answ. This is a new kind of Argument, but proves nothing.
For first, 'Tis denied that Infants by any Command of God were ever baptized in any Nation, no not amongst the Jews, much less among the Gentile Nations; but if they had been baptized before, he might as well have in•erred (and much better) Infants Right to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and have said, Can we imagine Christ would have excluded them from that, considering they were ⟨p. 152⟩before admitted to the Passover (which there is no great cause to question.)
For first, 'Tis denied that Infants by any Command of God were ever baptized in any Nation, no not amongst the Jews, much less among the Gentile Nations; but if they had been baptized before, he might as well have in•erred (and much better) Infants Right to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and have said, Can we imagine Christ would have excluded them from that, considering they were ⟨p. 152⟩before admitted to the Passeover (which there is no great cause to question.)