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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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Were not Women Members of the Chur•• ▪ and does not the Holy Supper belong to all •••• lar Members thereof? This Objection seems to represent these Men like a person almost drowned, who catches hold of any little Twig, or Flag, to help him: But, Brethren, these things will never do your business.
Were not Women Members of the Chur•• ▪ and does not the Holy Supper belong to all •••• lar Members thereof? This Objection seems to represent these Men like a person almost drown'd, who catches hold of any little Twig, or Flag, to help him: But, Brethren, these things will never do your business.
Object. If we have no Scripture-Example to baptize Infants: no more have you for the baptizing such Persons as you do baptize, viz. those of Age, whose Parents were baptized and educated from their Youth in the Christian Religion; for evident it is, those we read of in the New Testament who were baptized, were such who were newly Converted either from Judaism, or Paganism, to Christianity.
Answ. What tho we have no Example in the Scripture of any besides such you speak of that were baptized, (that •eing the very beginning of that Gospel-Admini•••ation) yet is not the Commission a perfect Rule to succeeding Ages, as well as it was to that present Age? Evident it is that by virtue of the Commission, none were ⟨p. 163⟩