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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. To this we Answer, That there is ground enough from the Scripture, for Women who are baptized Believers, to receive the Lord's Supper; Let a Man examine himself, and so let him eat, saith the Apostle, viz. Man or Woman. For so the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] signifies. There is one Mediator between God and Man. Is not Woman as well as Man intended there? If there come into your Assembly a Man having a Gold Ring, &c. A double-minded Man is unstable in all his ways. Are not Women as well as Men, comprehended and meant in those places as well as Men, tho not expressed?
Answ. To this we Answer, That there is ground enough from the Scripture, for Women who are baptized Believers, to receive the Lord's Supper; Let a Man examine himfelf, and so let him eat, saith the Apostle, viz. Man or Woman. For so the Greek word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies. There is one Mediator between God and Man. Is not Woman as well as Man intended there? If there come into your Assembly a Man having a Gold Ring, &c. A double-minded Man is unstable in all his ways. Are not Women as well as Men, comprehended and meant in those places as well as Men, tho not expressed?