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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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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.
But thirdly, If there had been any such legal Ordinance, it had been abrogated, with all other Jewish Ceremonies, which stood (as the Apostle shows) in Meats and Drinks, 1and divers Washings, and Carnal Ordinances imposed on them until the time of Reformation. All those divers Washings that were under the Law it is evident ceased in the Establishment of the new Testament; and therefore how abominable false is that which Mr. Smithies says concerning Gospel-Baptism?
But thirdly, If there had been any such legal Ordinance, it had been abrogated, with all other Jewish Ceremonies, which stood (as the Apostle shews) in Meats and Drinks, 1and divers Washings, and Carnal Ordinances imposed on them until the time of Reformation. All those divers Washings that were under the Law it is evident ceased in the Establishment of the new Testament; and therefore how abominable false is that which Mr. Smythies says concerning Gospel-Baptism?