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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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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.)
But secondly, We reason thus; If they were before baptized, either they were baptized as it was a Jewish Rite and Custom, or else as an Heathenish one: If Baptism of Infants before was a Jewish Rite, it was either appointed of God, or else a Tradition of their own: If it was a Tradition of their own, can you suppose our Saviour would go about to own and establish a Jewish Innovation, or one of their human Traditions? and if it were an Appointment of God, it is very much that no Man ever found it out before in all the Old Testament.