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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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For,1 saith Curcellaeus, in the two first Centuries after Christ, Infant-Baptism was altogether unknown; but in the third and fourth it was allowed by some few; in the fifth and following Ages, it was generally received into Custom.
- 1Curcellaeus •nstitut. Relig. Christian. l. 1. c. 12.
And if the Custom of the Church is enough to justify Infant-Baptism, it will oblige us as to receive many other Traditions or Ceremonies likewise.
Object. 6. But there are divers very learned Men who hold Infant-Baptism.
Answ. And are there not many very learned Men who are against baptizing them? who say 'tis an Invention of Men and no Ordinance of Jesus Christ? Besides, were not the Pharisees and Lawyers learned Men, who rejected the Counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized? God's purpose is to confound the Wisdom of Man. If Learning once comes to be made an Idol of, God may leave those learned Men to themselves, and let them grope in Mid-day as in the Night, notwithstanding all their Light, Knowledge, and Learning.