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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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Moreover, some Godly Men who have had great Light, and were glorious Reformers too in their day, yet lay short of some great Things and Duties; as Jehoshaphat, &c. who did not remove nor pull down the high Places.
Moreover, some Godly Men who have had great Light, and were glorious Reformers too in their day, yet lay short of some great Things and Duties; as Jehosaphat, &c. who did not remove nor pull down the high Places.
2. Light and Knowledge of Divine Truths have broken forth gradually. When Reformation first begun, those godly Men laboured to restore the doctrinal part of the Gospel, and yet great Corruptions remained in point of Discipline (which Errors God hath since by degrees discovered.)
2. Light and Knowledg of Divine Truths have broken forth gradually. When Reformation first begun, those godly Men laboured to restore the doctrinal part of the Gospel, and yet great Corruptions remained in point of Discipline (which Errors God hath since by degrees discovered.)
3. Had the best and late Reformers (for such you will find at last the Baptists to be in point of the Administrations of God's House and holy Temple) been generally learned Men, 'tis very like this Truth would have been more readily received among such (I mean learned Persons) than we see now it is, so hard a thing is Self-denial.